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Bernie Sanders

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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 10:23 PM Apr 2016

I'd like to suggest we NOT do any "Hillary should withdraw" threads at this time. [View all]

1)It's not cool when they've done that to us, so why do unto them?

2)At this stage, we are still behind(though gaining ground)in delegates and votes, and we need to avoid sounding arrogant or presumptuous.

3)If Bernie does get nominated, we will desperately need buy-in from HRC supporters in the fall, and it is likely that they will feel really, really resentful if we and when we do pull this out at the buzzer. Angry as we all have every right to be about they shit they have pulled, it's in our interest.

Let's put whatever we feel at this point into a focus on sweeping the remaining primaries and closing at least to a dead heat in delegates and, if at all possible, a lead in raw votes.

If HRC does start to look like a truly discredited candidate(which, I think, would become obvious if we won in NY), it will become apparent to her own campaign that she needs to get out. It doesn't help us to try to jump-start that process when we still have ground to make up and millions of voters to persuade.

On to victory!

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