Sanders says leaked DNC emails don't change his support for Clinton

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill

Bernie Sanders said he will still support Hillary Clinton for president despite leaked emails that showed Democratic Party leaders privately planned to undermine his presidential campaign.

"No, no, no," Sanders said in response to a question on NBC's "Meet the Press" about whether the emails affect his support of the presumptive Democratic nominee. "We are going to do everything we can to protect working families in this country. What a campaign is about is not about Hillary Clinton, it's not about Donald Trump. It's about the people of this country."

Sanders called Clinton, whom he formally endorsed earlier this month, a "far, far superior candidate" to Trump. "We're going to focus on defeating the worst Republican candidate I've seen in a lifetime. We've got to elect Secretary Clinton."

Emails leaked Friday by WikiLeaks reignited talks of party favoritism for Clinton just ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next week. In one May 21 email, DNC press secretary Mark Paustenbach writes to communications director Luis Miranda about planting a narrative to the media that Sanders’s “campaign was a mess.”

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[jonno99]

1. Bernie is a stand-up guy - no doubt about it. nt

[msanthrope]

2. Smart man. No faux outrage there. nt

[Android3.14]

3. Exactly. But Clinton still needs to clean up the DNC's act

[annavictorious]

9. Isn't Obama still the head of the party?

If DWS were to be fired, wouldn't it be Obama doing the firing?

[Android3.14]

14. Who needs to show she can lead at this point?

Hillary is our candidate, and we look to her for leadership of the political process.

This is an opportunity for her to show the doubters that she can be an ethical leader.

[calimary]

23. I think that IS how it works.

The highest-ranking individual in the party IS the leader of the party, as I understand it. In our case, we have a STILL-sitting President, and it's rather difficult to imagine anybody more high-ranking in our party than he is.

Donald Trump is now the head of the GOP because he's now the official GOP nominee. Just as Mitt Romney was, four years ago at approximately the same time. John McCain was NOT, because at that point, we were still blighted by a CON in the White House, and like it or not, that individual was the party leader.

[cstanleytech]

18. No, the rest of the leadership for the DNC needs to be the one to step up and do

any cleaning.
Clinton will have enough of a problem doing more important things like nominating new SCOTUS judges and hopefully finally cleaning up the remaining mess from the Bush administration that Barack was unable to clean because of Republican obstruction.

[Android3.14]

19. She's too busy to lead?

[cstanleytech]

28. Thats where delegating comes in, she can delegate it out to someone like say

to Barack who will have the time to deal with it once he is no longer president.

[Android3.14]

36. Works for me. Let's hope she can show some leadership

and actually do some pragmatic delegating.

[Orrex]

4. That was a classy move.

Bravo, Senator.

A lesser figure might have taken this opportunity for a bit of self-serving grandstanding, but Sanders' response is thoughtful and constructive.

[obamanut2012]

5. Props to him for this

[malthaussen]

6. Well, what would he say?

The man is not a cretin.

-- Mal

[michaz]

7. Love this man! n/t

[CrowCityDem]

8. It shouldn't change anyone's mind, since it WASN'T THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN at fault.

[monmouth4]

12. Hahaha, I think that's tbd...n/t

[Cooley Hurd]

16. I've been wondering...

Where is Crow City? Not being cheeky, but I work in a city where the crow (bird) population is huge and has been featured in National Geographic. I lived there until 6 months ago but moved to the country where there are far more deer than crow.

[CrowCityDem]

20. That National Geographic story sounds familiar ;)

[Cooley Hurd]

22. Aha!!!

Just guessing, but you're in favor of the Tubman Twenty, too?

[CrowCityDem]

24. It's cool, but Trump would prefer putting our electric chair on it, lol

[Cooley Hurd]

25. Hahahaha!!!

[Urchin]

40. Has Hillary Complained?

But Hillary seems willing enough to benefit from it. Has she complained about the DNC acting unfairly?

Bernie, I bet, would refuse the nomination had Hillary been cheated out of it by the DNC.

[bekkilyn]

10. And this is a reason why I've been a Bernie supporter

And why I voted for Bernie in the primaries. He upholds his convictions and yet does what he says he will do. I voted for Bernie because I support his goals, but if Hillary ends up being the person who meets some of those goals, then that's fine. It's not about Bernie or Hillary, but about what they want to do for the country. It really doesn't matter who does it as long as it gets done. The Democrat platform is stronger now because of both of them.

I do like that Bernie has requested that Debbie Wasserman Schultz step down. She's been to the DNC what Arne Duncan has been to education.

[Raspol]

11. Bad news for Putin

and Trump.

[Cooley Hurd]

13. Thank you Senator Sanders!

He understands that the job at hand is to do EVERYTHING to stop Trump, one of the biggest dangers to our Democracy in my lifetime.

We have enough time later to purge the Democratic Party of all the underhanded, third-way "moderate" DINO's.

[turbinetree]

15. U.S. Supreme Court----------------------get it, got it

and control of the Congress-------------------get it , got it

Democracy is not a spectator sport get involved----------------tag your it------------------Bernie Sanders to Thom Hartmann


Honk------------------for a political revolution

[liberal N proud]

17. Bernie Sanders understands what is at stake

He also knows that division in a most important election smells of defeat.

[Kathy M]

33. Agree .

Democrats need to stick together to defeat Republicans and their divisive tactics .

[yuiyoshida]

21. Sanders san, doumo arigatou gozaimashita

Kare no kokoro o hanashimasu 彼の心を話します

[NWCorona]

30. 彼は通常、右です

[yuiyoshida]

31. Honto desu yo. Mochiron.

ほんと です よ もちろん

[wisteria]

26. Thank you Senator Sander's.

The past is the past. The time has come to elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump.

[Chakaconcarne]

27. And why did they do this?

[Agnosticsherbet]

29. Good to h ear this.

[Vinca]

32. We need to state the obvious.

The general election is between a sane candidate and one who is mad as a hatter. Even if you despise Hillary with every fiber of your being, the thought of enabling Trump by not voting for her is totally out of the question.

[asiliveandbreathe]

34. 'nuff said...GOTV

Sanders called Clinton, whom he formally endorsed earlier this month, a "far, far superior candidate" to Trump. "We're going to focus on defeating the worst Republican candidate I've seen in a lifetime. We've got to elect Secretary Clinton."

[Doctor Jack]

35. He is a much better man than I ever gave him credit for

I believed some of the claims later in the primaries that he was full of himself or wanted to make this all about him. I was dead wrong. He's a great guy and might be better than we deserve.

[cannabis_flower]

37. I'm with Bernie...

I'm ready to move on and support Bernie.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, however needs to go. She needs to lose the chairmanship of the DNC and she needs to lose her seat in the House.

[DirkGently]

38. Speaks well of him. Doesn't help the DNC.

The relevance is not whether Sanders is publicly personally offended. It's whether the DNC conducted itself according to its own rules and its stated course of action.

Which it appears it did not.

[PoliticalMalcontent]

39. That's very big of him. He sees the danger that Trump represents and he's doing the right thing.

I think we definitely missed out on a very thoughtful, PRAGMATIC, individual with Sanders. I'm going to love and follow his lead for the rest of his days in politics.

[videohead5]

41. Bernie an Athiest?

I really did not care if he was or was not but no one used it against Bernie... but I guarantee you Trump would have.the Rthugs would have broadcast it from coast to coast.

[wryter2000]

42. If only his supporters would listen

Makes you wonder if the hangers-on ever really supported him or had a very different agenda.

By this I don't mean the huge majority who now back Hillary.