know it.
Theres no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on. At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders.
I dont know who advised him that this was the right route to take, but we are now actively destroying what Bernie worked so hard to build over the last year just to pick up two fucking delegates in a state he lost, rapid response director Mike Casca complained to Weaver in an internal campaign email obtained by POLITICO.
What he got was left wing pundits turning against him and no "fucking" delegates.
Bitter berni.. will be left in the dust..
Aides say Sanders thinks that progressives who picked Clinton are cynical, power-chasing chickens like Sen. Sherrod Brown, one of his most consistent allies in the Senate before endorsing Clinton and campaigning hard for her ahead of the Ohio primary. Sanders is so bitter about it that hed be ready to nix Brown as an acceptable VP choice, if Clinton ever asked his advice on whod be a good progressive champion.
"Every time Sanders got into a knife fight, aides say, they ended up losing. But they could never stop Sanders when he got his back up."
Reid, according to people familiar with the conversation, ended the discussion thinking Sanders was on board. He backed Feingold. But thats the last anyone heard.
Word got back to Reids team that Weaver had nixed the idea, ruling out backing anyone who hadnt endorsed Sanders. Weaver says its because the Senate hopefuls had to get in line for Sanders support behind top backers like Gabbard and Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.)though neither has a competitive race this year.
Sanders never followed up himself
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One Loser decision after another.
Thanks for this, geek.. I'm sure there will be more desconstruciing of what went wrong with the BS campaign.
We were all right there to see it.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bernie-sanders-campaign-last-days-224041#ixzz4AxJ54UK8