2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Hillary supporters: How is Hillary's and your claiming victory prematurely going to unite the party? [View all]
I've seen more than one OP now about Hillary's victory speech and winning the nom by this Tuesday.
Now, we all know the rules. The rules to clinching the nom before the convention are having PLEDGED delegates. SUPER delegates do not get counted until the convention because that's when they vote.
Yet many Hillary supporters insist - in an oh so smug and arrogant manner - on saying she will win the nomination on Tuesday and that it will be called for her after the NJ results are in, before CA.
We all know CA is shaky ground for Hillary, so I can see why you all would want it called before the CA results are in, and it may well be called by the MSM since they are the corporate mouthpiece. That does not, however, make it true and by doing so, by stating something that is so blatantly false you and Hillarly exhibit such hubris and arrogance and disregard for the voters and democracy itself I don't see how you think you are going to earn the support of Bernie supporters.
So I have to ask, since you all want party unity with Hillary as the nominee, how is this going helping to achieve that? The only outcome I can see coming from it is further alienation of any voter that you should be trying to win over.
And I see post after post of Hillary supporters saying Bernie should show grace and class, how is declaring a victory before there can possibly be one based on the rules exhibiting class and grace?
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