Sanders Spox: FBI Findings Won't Sway Decision To Stay In Race

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from TPM:

A spokesperson for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reportedly told media outlets Tuesday that the FBI's findings on the investigation into Hillary Clinton's server use wouldn't impact Sanders' decision to stay in the race for the White House.

Sanders spokesperson says FBI announcement re Clinton emails will not impact the senator's decision to stay in the race
— MaryAlice Parks (@maryaliceparks) July 5, 2016


@BernieSanders spox tells @NBCNews that today's FBI Clinton email decision doesn't impact decision to stay in the race.
— Danny Freeman (@DannyEFreeman) July 5, 2016


Spox added that @BernieSanders did indeed watch FBI Director Comey's televised statement today from Burlington. https://t.co/ZhRaXA0nZN
— Danny Freeman (@DannyEFreeman) July 5, 2016


...what fricking 'race' does Sanders think he's still running? How does he 'stay in the race' he's already lost?

[MariaThinks]

1. Someone needs to tell someone - what race?

[fleabiscuit]

17. +1 LOL

[riversedge]

32. Perhaps he misspoke???

[Cha]

80. Exactly Maria!

[Renew Deal]

2. His behavior has made him a smaller person

[Adrahil]

5. It has. NT

[uponit7771]

9. +1

[Cali_Democrat]

27. +1000

[SharonClark]

38. He must be minuscule by now.

[nolabear]

40. It's sad, really.

[lunamagica]

53. No doubt about it

[Starry Messenger]

74. Sad, but true.

[tonyt53]

3. Sanders? The Colonel? That is what most people should think? THAT other Sanders? Doesn't matter.

[nolabear]

41. The Extra Crispy One...

[brush]

4. Newsflash: He's not in the race. The race is long over.

[Hortensis]

19. His camp leaked his hope that an indictment

could somehow result in his taking her place. It was shocking to me that a man so close to the White House could delude himself into ignoring the previous FBI and DepJustice statements, as if he were one of his own more "ardent" followers, but there you are. It may be that right up until this morning that dim candle of hope has been flickering up ahead for him.

[woolldog]

47. He's in an echo chamber...

where an indictment was a certainty, similar to the way Romney was measuring drapes for the White House in 2012 based on "unskewed polls"

[Hekate]

6. I'd like cole slaw on the side. Oh, not that Sanders?

[cosmicone]

7. The FBI announcement is finger licking good!

[madamesilverspurs]

8. ...

[DemonGoddess]

14. bwahahahaha

[MaggieD]

29. .

[Haveadream]

42. FTW!!

[NurseJackie]

43. Oh good lord ... that's absolutely hysterical!!

[sheshe2]

44. Priceless!

[lunamagica]

54. Oh, snap!

[okieinpain]

63. +1 n/t.

[nolawarlock]

65. LMAO!!!!!

[kstewart33]

10. What race, pray tell?

The race has long been over. It's general election campaign time!

[BlueMTexpat]

11. Of course it won't.

I don't expect anything will.

But there is NO race currently happening. The finish line was crossed on June 7, 2016. Period.

This has gotten beyond sad - it's become the theater of the absurd.

[CajunBlazer]

58. Nope, weeks after the 24 hr time period for finishing the marathonm was up....

Sanders is still out on the course vowing that he is going to finish FIRST if it kill his political career.

[BlueMTexpat]

71. It's definitely a new twist on the old

fable of the tortoise and the hare.

[bravenak]

12. I have no idea what race he could possibly be in right now

[Lance Bass esquire]

13. Tom Hartman a die hard Bernie supporter

Just said Bernie has done a lot of good for the party platform but will never be President.

Sorry that it's over but it's over.

[liberalnarb]

23. *Thom Hartmann.

And yes its over. But Bernie was always planning on sticking around until the convention, for no other reason then to keep the platform as Progressive as possible.

[WhiteTara]

36. He's done that. He is not going to get

the cherry on the sundae, he lost the race.

[CajunBlazer]

59. I afraid that if his delegates start a floor fight at the convention...

... as some have predicted they will, after election Sanders may find himself stripped of his chairmanships and any other power he might have had in the Senate, which will not do his constituents any favors.

I have heard some say that Sanders could be one of the most powerful Senators, but he plays it wrong, payback in politics can be a .....

[CrowCityDem]

15. Is he staying in for the free continental breakfast?

[MaggieD]

31. He apparently likes the $40K per day entourage of secret service

[SharonClark]

39. That pisses me off - a waste of taxpayer money

[okieinpain]

64. why do they have to keep protecting him if the race is over n/t.

[MineralMan]

16. What race is Sanders still in?

The primaries are all over. The race is done. Sanders came in second.

[CajunBlazer]

60. And last

[KingFlorez]

18. There is no race

Whatever race he is running is one he made up himself.

[Dem2]

20. Power is more addictive than heroin

[ehrnst]

46. Bingo. Those adoring crowds after being left behind by his peers

must have been like crack cocaine. It's going to be hard going back to the daily grind where not even Vermont's other Senator really likes working with you.

[Ohioblue22]

21. Like gene Simmons Bernie doesn't know when he's over stayed his welcome

[brush]

22. Like the last party guests who won't go home even though you're yawning like crazy.

[Alfresco]

24. Bernie is caught in a loop and he can't find the exit.

[Cali_Democrat]

25. There's still a race going on? What?

[seabeyond]

26. Of course it doesn't sway Sanders because he cannot give the win to a woman. Nt

[MaggieD]

28. The "race" is over

And there is no fool like an old fool.

[Eric J in MN]

55. If DU General Election Rules let you call Sanders an 'old fool'

...I'll keep that in mind the next time I criticize Hillary Clinton.

[CajunBlazer]

61. I wouldn't take a chance if I were you.....

I don't agree with calling Sanders names, but is still not a Democrat and he certainly isn't the the party's nominee. Just saying.

[pandr32]

30. There is no race

Time to give up the SS detail of nearly $40,000.00 per day--billed to taxpayers. He concedes--they go away.

[Peacetrain]

33. There is nothing to drop out of.. the race is over

[riversedge]

34. Would have been nice if, somehow, Sanders team would have indicated this was good for

the Dem. Party--or for the Dem presumptive candidate.

[redstatebluegirl]

35. I'm sorry Senator Sanders supporters.

He has jumped the shark. He likes the attention, the secret service at our expense, the media all of it. He needs to just stop. I don't want to think this is because Secretary Clinton is a woman but it looks more and more like that all the time. He needs to get out. He won't be invited to speak at the convention if he doesn't that is clear.

[Eric J in MN]

49. Ted Kennedy didn't drop out until the convention. Carter is a man. NT

NT

[G_j]

52. can't imagine if DU had existed back then

would have been pretty nasty ..

[thucythucy]

56. And how did that presidential election turn out for Democrats? nt

[charlyvi]

69. Carter won.

[thucythucy]

72. I'd laugh

except the memory of election night, November 1980, is still so painful.

[charlyvi]

68. And Ted Kennedy, though I adored him,

looked like the smaller person for it.

[Beacool]

79. Yeah, and that election ended so well......for Reagan.

[jcgoldie]

37. weekend at Bernie's continues...

Except in the movie it was everyone else who didn't realize Bernie was dead.

[ehrnst]

45. They will keep on clapping until the indictment fairy comes back to life. (nt)

[Armstead]

48. Election as American Idol. Issues don't matter

Sad state of politics. Just a reality show. Debates over issues and message no longer matter.

Sad and boring.

[CajunBlazer]

67. Do you disagree that the nominee should be able to choose the planks ....

,, of the platform she will run on. Why would anyone try to insert into the Democratic platform specific objectives which she is not comfortable pledging to the American people that she will try to achieve.

I am sure that you will ask for and example, so I'll save you the trouble. If I were her I would not want to include in the platform a single payer health care program. Why, because Hillaryhas already said that is not achievable goal for the time being so it not worth the effort. She will instead put into put her energies into improving Obamacare.

It happens all the time, but no politician should run on a platform plank which she/he does not intend to try to enact.

I am sure that some will say that this proves she is not a "true progressive". Well hear this loud and clear: Far left wing progressives do not "own" the soul of the Democratic party no more that the right wing Southern Dixicrats did in their day. The identity of the Democratic Party has morphed many times in its history. It is what the majority of the party's members during a particular time period designate it to based on the leaders they choose.

If a far left wing progressive wins the nomination in 2020, he or she will have final say about the nature of planks of the Democratic platform, and rightly so. But right now the nominee is Hillary Clinton, not Bernie Sanders.

[Armstead]

75. A nominee is not a monarch

And if the "pragmatists" are so intent on the compromise they claim to love, there should be a debate over policies. It's not like the "far left" is asking the Democratic Party to eat nails.

The "far left" that you so disparage is not all that "far left" of the political mainstream, and in many ways is smack dab in the middle. You think average people like the fact that big corporations control both political parties? You think average people would not prefer to have a less expensive alternative to the ripoff of private insurance? (Maybe not single payer, but at least a public option.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

50. Good. He should stay in until a candidate is actually nominated.

[Lord Magus]

62. That's freaking ridiculous.

What possible purpose does it serve to pretend that the nomination hasn't been decided?

[nolawarlock]

66. Yeah?

I notice on that Jim Jones Radicals site that they're back to praying for superdelegates. I'll give them props for their perseverance but they're like those ghosts that don't know that they're dead.

[workinclasszero]

51. Is Bernie in a new race somewhere?

Oh well good luck to him.

Can't wait to see Hillary to get the nomination on the first ballot in Philly!

[randome]

76. A race to has-been-hood.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[workinclasszero]

82. He will win that no doubt

[CajunBlazer]

57. Sorry, can't recommend this post

No offense to the OP

[The Second Stone]

70. Republicans think that anyone without a penis or white skin cannot be President

and they are just wrong. The person with 270 or more electoral votes is President.

[caquillo]

73. "This is my quest, to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far..."

[RandySF]

77. .

[Beacool]

78. What race???????

Is he going to concede when Hillary is sworn in next January?

[PowerToThePeople]

81. Do silver & bronze medalists walk off

before they hand out the medals?

No.

They finished the race and deserve their place, even if they were not number one.