Total BS.

Bernie has the energy of the young people on his side and we will not win without them in the general.

So I think we need to move onto the next explanation.

they don't turn out for Sanders...we have to hope some will vote against Trump and we can make the voter base larger as Biden has been doing.

Cornell West, who represented sanders and helped form the platform, turned around and supported Stein!!

If they wouldn't show up for Bernie, they won't show up for Biden either.

This primary it's been about 12 percent, those new voters just don't turn out in huge numbers in America.

Wouldn't it be a better America with age 50 and above on medicare insurance? This can be very possible in two years even with a President Biden.

Move on

ACA will at the minimum RE-ADD the provision for medicare for over age 50 at the minimum with a D president.

which is Biden's plan. It is called "Medicare who want it"

Like I said, move on.

Those 65 plus years of age will be dead from the Coronavirus. How about we address that right now! He failed to address that the other night and went into his stump speech of Medicare for all.

He was asked a simple question and failed.

We have the black vote and the elder vote. Stats tonight show Sanders can't even rally the youth vote.

What concessions are you talking about?

sanders. The Dems did that in ‘16 and they still didn’t vote.

Biden has already said he would be adopting some of Warren’s ideas on bankruptcy and sanders ideas on student loan debt

and no policy concessions I can see from Sanders. Just more of the same. Still running negative ads.

Losers don’t dictate terms to winners. Especially not losers who couldn’t win even a single county in multiple states.

You want people to listen to you?

Show that you have voter support for what you’re selling.

At least Hillary had big wins under her belt in 2008.

Unfortunately, we don't. We've been hearing the same thing for five years, and it has yet to materialize.

Here in my state of FL - there was no school this entire week during early voting and for Tuesday - high school kids that are 18+ and college age kids could have cast ballots for Bernie if they wanted. They didn't.

If Bernie’s campaign has as much of the youthful energy that you imply it does, his young voter totals would not only have matched Bernie’s youthful turnout of 2016, it should have SURPASSED it by at least 200 percent.

So why did Bernie have FEWER youthful voters this primary season? Where did they go? Where they even there?

I hate sounding like a cranky old grandpa, butI’m still an old fart who can operate a calculator and crunch numbers.

then why would we believe they would show up for the general election?

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Kind of like they love to to go to concerts and music festivals.

They're on board with his ideas. But then they don't show up to vote for him. So how committed are they?

He will concede when his donors/handlers give him the OK to concede and not a moment sooner.

But not nearly enough obviously.

We still need to work harder to attract our young folks if their vote share is going to be remotely close to 2012, much less 2008.

Joe Biden has already adopted Senator Sanders free college notion. Senator Sanders barely acknowledged this.

Bernie’s unrealistic plans, he will lose votes. The majority of Dems don’t want his agenda. They voted for Joe as will independents and disenchanted Republicans. Bernie lost all counties in SIX
states.

The revolution has been rejected.

getting a pay check.

you are going to vote D aren't you?

*The spoiler effect is the effect of vote splitting between candidates or ballot questions who often have similar ideologies. One spoiler candidate's presence in the election draws votes from a major candidate with similar politics, thereby causing a strong opponent of both or several to win*

than he spends attacking the enemy.

night night, I have a 7am client to meet and need my sleep!

We need all the centrist independent and republican votes - they vote more reliably than the unicorn hunters.

Biden will lose them all if he moved left and may get the socialist label.

Thank the Gods Biden has always been a good listener.

the bankruptcy bill and free college in public institutions in their state.

They are a small minority and should go along with Biden because trump is certainly not going to give them ANYTHING.

Extortion is not usually rewarded.

by the likes of Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore, David Sirota, Nina Turner and others

I think he should stay in to accumulate as many delegates as possible to maximise the ability to influence the Party Platform. It also will require VP Biden to stay alert and on message to sharpen his abilities to take on Trump.

I do hope Sanders will drop out now. My state's primary hasn't happened yet and those of us who don't get absentee ballots will be facing a choice about whether or not to literally risk death to vote.

But I've been passionate about candidates who didn't win. I've knocked doors for them. Heck, I've run for office and lost by less than two dozen votes. Anyone who doesn't understand your disappointment and respect your engagement is ... well, the politest thing I can say is don't let them get you down because their snarky anonymous comments aren't worth it.

He will be a team player when it’s needed.

And the election?

And he only managed 39 appearances?

While doing zilch for down-ticket races.

Color me unimpressed.

party's presidential nominee---period. Accumulating delegates for the sole purpose of forcing his views into the party platform smells like blackmail: "Do it my way or I'll 'support' you with the same "enthusiasm" I showed for Hillary."

they ended their candidacies and endorsed the most likely winner. That's what Democrats do in primaries. Still, against all odds, Sanders doggedly hangs in there, going on and on about thirty-year-old senate votes, Joe's billionaire donors and M4A, his supporters constantly attacking Biden all over the internet.

Everyone else, including the most moderate centrists, promised to support Bernie, no questions asked, if he won, because that's the only way Sanders could beat Trump in the general. But, too may Bernie supporters can't see their way clear to return the favor. Hell, they didn't even want to vote for their own guy when they had the chance.

Now Biden is supposed to bend over backwards to placate the Bernie left, folks who might not even turn out in November, no matter what concessions are made. In the process, Joe risks losing moderate Republican voters who might vote for a Democrat simply because they're finally sick and tired of Trump's divisive BS.

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more voters now with the virus than in 2016!

They don't translate into bargaining power when one candidate out-delegates the other by 1,000 delegates.

The party platform has always been plenty liberal enough. For those who bothered to read the damned thing.

The voters have spoken, and they don’t want what he’s selling.

No concessions to sore losers.

a public option and Medicare at 55 ACA and the words "health care is a right, not a privilege," along with campaign finance reform, making the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, etc., is in the platform is very high. Sometimes if you tell them, they still don't believe it, and it seems like some sort of rule that it is forbidden to look upon the platform with their own eyes. I guess if you get it in your head that both parties are the same except for a few "identity politics" things, you CAN'T accept reality, you'd have to change all your opinions.

Influence the party platform, like West....his surrogate Corny West went off to vote for Jill Stein. The great guy that called Obama a house N*gger. Bernie himself wanted to primary Obama. Lol~

If he hasn't yet been able to "influence the Party Platform" by now, I seriously doubt his staying in the race can accomplish that.

And don't expect trumpie to tolerate ANY debates.

More attached to him for longer, and make it more and more likely, with time, to write him in, vote third party, vote for Dotard, or not vote.

Are you kidding? Guess you haven't listened to that fat, lying, hardly-on-top-of-anything, dotard lately?

I doubt that blowhard will agree to a debate after he saw what Biden did to Sanders in their debate.

with only one gay mecca having voted in order to help the party. Seeing Sanders utter, complete, and total selfishness is nothing short of infuriating to me.

Sanders is too much like Trump IMO
They are both all about themselves

I voted super Tuesday.

Why not? why would you want to dismiss about 30 percent of the D voters before they even had a chance to cast their votes?


This is why great people like Obama are totally silent because they also know "why"

Not to express our feelings

I'm a progressive, I want faster progressive change. I love Biden and Sanders

Some may have a primary.

Everyone in later states is in the same boat. Even Biden voters are not needed after a certain point.

There is no "reasonable justification" for Sanders to stay in the race.

Bernie should stay in to advocate for his vision of a post-Trumpian world.

There is no risk or downside to it.

and use his considerable war chest and mailing list to help unify the party and win the Senate.

Enough of the selfish egotism.

He’s just going to look foolish if this goes on much longer.

Sanders represents the last remnants of the true progressive wing of the Democratic party, and as such he speaks for a large continent of Democrats who otherwise have no voice and have seen their issues and concerns largely ignored and only used as a prgamatic bargaining tool to further a corporatist Democratic agenda run by large wealthy PAC's and Corporations. If Biden is truly worthy of the nomination then let him prove it. The longer Sanders remains in the race, the more concessions he can draw from Biden, and while it may be insignificant to some of you: a higher minimum wage and COL adjustment as well as expanding Medicare are issues worth fighting for.

and simply remind you that I did specifically request "no Sirota-style BS avalanches".

Is that all you've got?

Vermont was a continent

He can balance uniting the party, attracting all Democrats, and focusing on Trump. He can ignore Bernie and so all of the above simultaneously.

Can you name them?

But all that he is going to do by staying in, is to lose more and more respect. He will be seen as a bad loser, a spoiler and a divider by continually attacking Biden. His poll numbers will continue to go down as Biden's goes up. And when Sanders eventually drops out, I think his reputation will be in tatters.

the donor class, coastal elites, wealthy lobbyists, Big Pharma, Big Oil, Wall Street, the corporate media conglomeration, the DNC, Third Way ... did I leave anyone out? ... that Bernie says have stopped at nothing to defeat him. Stopped at nothing, eh? I don't think so. He's still in the race. Come on, all these supernaturally powerful organizations and people out to get him and it ends up being the voters (the people, as in power to; speaking truth to power) who do the most to stop him? Embarrassing, like when the Wicked Witch of the West melts when accidentally splashed with water. What a world.

I’ve been wondering, at what point is it a mathematical impossibly? I assume it isn’t now, but would one more Super Tuesday-type Election Day do it?

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