![]() It is possible (but not necessarily likely) that the endorsement was an agreed upon concession made outside formal rules or quietly between the campaigns. We reviewed the oft-cited DNC 2016 rules but were unable to locate any specific verbiage mandating that any candidate endorse any other candidate in order to fully participate in the convention. On and on it went, Sanders touting a much-beloved policy of his and then noting that Clinton agreed with it. What followed in the speech was a laundry list of Sanders's talking points and policies supplemented with the phrases "Hillary believes" or "Hillary understands" or "Hillary knows" stuck in front of them. You can read the whole thing here.)īut, surely, Sanders was simply touting his successes as a way of winding up to the big moment when he acknowledged - even subtly - that Clinton's more moderate, cautious and pragmatic definition of "Democrat" had trumped (ahem) his more liberal, populist one?. And, yes, he did say this: "I have come here to make it as clear as possible as to why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton and why she must become our next president." (It was the only time that Sanders used the words "endorse" or "endorsing" in a speech that ran 2,161 words. ![]() Yes, I know that's how it was billed by the Clinton and Sanders camps. The speech today was, ostensibly, an endorsement of Clinton's presidential campaign. Wolthuis also referenced a Washington Post article published after Sanders' 12 July 2016 comments, surmising that Sanders in part intended to tack Clinton to promises of a progressive platform: The talk among her the those with whom she associated, both Clinton and Sanders supporters, was that Bernie understood Hillary needed Sanders' supporters and that was the only reason she made any concessions at all regarding the positions on the DNC platform for which the Sanders campaign fought. She did indeed have conversations with various delegates associated with both campaigns, and she said it was "common knowledge" among most delegates that the Clinton campaign was insisting on Bernie making an endorsement prior to the convention if the more progressive parts of the platform would be retained. The basic thrust of the post shown above is accurate, she said, but the use of the term that Bernie was "threatened" she explained was overblown. He is counting on us to continue the fight.Ĭontacted later in the day by phone, Wolthuis clarified her comments about the use of force and Sanders' endorsement of Clinton:įter reaching out to many of the people who had either posted or tweeted this statement, I tracked down the original source, Ashley Wolthuis, a Sanders delegate from Utah, who was kind enough to return my "cold call" to her cell phone. A sign of a great leader is someone who makes the hard decision to sacrifice themselves for the people and movement behind him. this was just to throw a little light on why Bernie did what he felt he HAD to do, rather than what he wanted to do. This post is not to tell you to vote for Hillary, or to not leave the Democratic Party, etc. He was looking out for the future of our movement and our nation in this very hard decision he made. ![]() He could not, in good consciousness let the GOP and Trump win, especially when we have a potential half of the Supreme Court Justices that will be replaced within the next 4-8 years. Knowing that Superdelegates were not going to switch to his side without something major happening, the best he could do was hold on to the progressive concessions he won for US on the platform. Clinton’s campaign “threatened” to vote down every concession made to Bernie on the platform if he did not endorse her prior to the convention. Here’s what I was told yesterday and today. The afternoon of the endorsement, a Sanders delegate (later identified as Ashley Wolthuis of Utah) made comments suggesting Sanders was forced to publicly endorse Clinton under threat of punitive platform changes: According to many social media users, Sanders' pre-convention endorsement was a requirement under Democratic National Committee (DNC) rules as a condition of bringing his delegates to the convention, just as Franklin Delano Roosevelt had similarly been forced to endorse an opponent before going on to win at a contested convention: On 12 July 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders formally endorsed rival Hillary Clinton at a New Hampshire event, causing consternation among supporters who were confident he still planned to take his candidacy for the nomination to the convention in Philadelphia later that month.Ī number of interlinked rumors appeared on social media following the Clinton/Sanders event, roughly outlining a larger general claim. Roosevelt's endorsement of a rival candidate is undocumented. ![]() FDR had a majority of delegates heading into the 1932 convention, just not enough to secure the nomination without a fight. ![]()
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