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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Faces Feisty Democratic Challenger [View all]phleshdef
(11,936 posts)Hillary was not an incumbent. Bernie endorsed her and campaigned for her. He took it easier on her than Obama did in 2008. Bernie didn't make the stupid email thing an issue.
He didn't ask Comey to overstep and give his personal commentary criticizing her while confirming her innocence.
Bernie didn't have anything to do with Anthony Wiener sexting underage girls, thus getting his laptop confiscated, thus finding Huma Abedine's emails with Hillary on it, thus leading to Comey to inform the commitee they found more emails... which Chafee then told the whole world about before it was discovered the emails were copies of what they already had. That all went down in the last week or so of the election.
Most of all Bernie had nothing to do with Russian interference in our election. Nor did he have anything to do with Hillary's weaknesses as a campaigner. I believe she would have been great at governing, but the Clinton brand has a lot of political baggage and she doesn't connect like Obama could. None of that has anything to do with Bernie.