Sanders: Clinton should have spoken up about Russian bots during election

[karynnj]

51. Where did I say that??? It is NEVER ALL the candidate's fault. Hillary, like all candidates had

both strengths and weaknesses. The only way that Bernie would have known what Clinton did is if she or her campaign told him.

Personally, I suspect the normal RW echo chamber of talk radio and Fox pushing every negative story they could find on Clinton without regard to truth had at least as much impact as pushing the stories on social media. It's impossible to assess how much each effort hurt, but it might be that the greatest Russian impact is the one we all knew of by September. The hacking of the DNC and Podesta -- giving the RW echo chamber a wealth of new stories to exploit.

By the way, I was here in 2005 and 2006, and the some people were STRONGLY against John Kerry considering running again because "he did not fight back". The HRC supporters in particular also argued that only the Clintons could successfully fight the right wing and HRC was already positively defined - so there was no risk she could be defined by others first. Though I HATED those comments, I believed then and now that they were sincere. I thought they were unfair -- especially as I felt that others did not use all the proof he had to support him (especially Edwards who promised the campaign to do so and then didn't.)

In 2016, Clinton DID get a HUGE amount of Democratic support in the general election - ranging from Bernie to the Obamas. I don't know if a different candidate would have been harder for Trump. the Republicans, and the Russians to negatively frame. Most would need to very quickly define themselves.