2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders on Clinton endorsement: 'We are not there at this moment' [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)Most of us do not give a care if he ever endorses Hillary. At all. Not a big deal. Means nada, nothing, zip, zero, insignificant in the general, we will beat trump with the army we have not the army we wanted. If certain sections of the primary electorate want to let Trump win then we will make up for it with other voters and endorsements.
At this point I am expecting endorsements to come in from Republicans and that will help us defeat Trump. Those endorsements will be critical in moving moderates and sane Republicans away from Trump and towards Hillary. I think many Republicans for Hillary will remain Democrats after the GE.
With Elizabeth Warren, Obama, the true democratic base, anti kkk republicans, etc, I think we will win handily without his endorsement. My only fear is that it will make his movement stagnate and kill off all hope of a resurge of the left when the party gets flooded with Republicans against Trump.
I think this holding out of an endorsement makes moderates and middle road republicans more important in the general than they need to be ever.