Sanders Acknowledges ‘It Doesn’t Appear’ He’ll Be Dem Nominee

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made a rare acknowledgement during an interview with C-SPAN set to air Wednesday that “it doesn’t appear” he’ll be the Democratic presidential nominee.

Sanders spoke about his desire to leave a progressive mark on the Democratic Party and to take his “political revolution” to the party convention, although he recognized he isn’t likely to win the nomination in Philadelphia.

“It doesn’t appear that I’m going to be the nominee, so I’m not going to be determining the scope of the convention,” Sanders told C-SPAN.

Sanders, who has not dropped his White House bid or endorsed the party’s presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton, said that he expects to speak at the convention next month.

He also repeated his vow to stop Donald Trump from winning the presidency. Earlier Wednesday, Trump opened a speech attacking Clinton by calling for Sanders’ voters to join his campaign.

“This guy must not become president of the United States and I’m going to do everything I can to prevent that, but I don’t think the people who would be voting for me would vote for him,” Sanders told C-SPAN.

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  1. Ya think?

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  4. Talks are ongoing between both campaigns about how to deploy Sanders later this summer and fall as a Clinton surrogate. The Clinton camp wants him to make his largest splash with the young cohort captivated by his Brooklyn-tinged talk of “revolution.”

    “They’re discussing all these things now, and once they figure it out, that’s what he’ll be doing,” Sanders’ senior adviser Tad Devine told POLITICO…

    The data and targeting tools that Sanders used to great effect in the Democratic primaries, Devine added, will also be available to Clinton.

    “We know who they are. We’ve identified them. They’re part of the process,” Devine said. “And the modern tools of campaigning, once you’ve identified somebody, give you the ability to contact them, to persuade them and to mobilize them like you’ve never seen before.”

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