2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If Trump is forced to run third party, I think there's a good chance Bernie will too [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)Nothing Bernie Sanders has said or done to this point suggests that this is a profit-driven vanity run, as it is for Trump and Cruz (and Carson, Christie, Bush, Fiorina...). He's been pretty consistent with his statements and has already acknowledged that win or lose he will support the Democratic nominee.
Furthermore, as a Member of Congress, (one who actually reads and understands the Constitution unlike the GOP Senators who have disgraced this campaign), Sanders knows full well that by taking electoral votes away from Hillary Clinton he would dramatically increase the chances of a contested election, where the Republican House can simply not vote for anyone and coronate Paul Ryan.
We can conclude the exact same for Mrs. Clinton, with even more certainty, because she already did this in 2008, accepting defeat and becoming a powerful ally of Senator Obama's general election campaign.
We are blessed with two candidates of high integrity, while the GOP has none, and if the guesses we draw do not presuppose this they are sure to be incorrect.