Sanders superdelegate from Idaho: "He needs to get a grip on things."

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“That’s what Senator Sanders felt at the moment,” says Dottie Dean, a Sanders delegate from Vermont. “I’m not gonna weigh in on what he said. I just feel that my focus needs to be on electing Democrats, and everybody’s going to have an opinion.”

Dean also refuses to criticize Democratic leaders for their attacks on Sanders, saying she’s unaware of their specific comments on the issue. But some Sanders delegates are going to the mat for the senator. They are accusing the Democratic establishment of manufacturing an artificial crisis out of the chaos in Nevada.

“I think a lot of this is really overblown,” says Rich Cassidy, a Sanders superdelegate from Vermont. “There are millions of people supporting Bernie Sanders, and some of them have extreme views and extreme ways of expressing their views. And you can’t be held accountable for what the most extreme people who happen to be your supporters do.” Cassidy doesn’t give much weight to the Democratic establishment’s outrage over Sanders’s post-Nevada statement.

“To say ‘Oh, he wasn’t forceful enough,’ that just strikes me as a way for people who want to be critical of Bernie Sanders to be critical of Bernie Sanders,” he says. “It’s just an excuse, and I don’t buy it.” “I mean, we’re all Americans,” says Chris Regan, a Sanders delegate from West Virginia. “We all boo the referees when you feel like you’re getting hosed with a bad call. So if people feel like [the Nevada convention] wasn’t a fair procedure, then they have a bad reaction.”

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435647/bernie-sanders-delegates-worried-nevada-convention-chaos