Sanders Pledges To Help Defeat Trump, But Still Won’t Endorse Clinton

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In a video address to supporters on Thursday night, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pledged to help Democrats defeat Donald Trump, but he did not drop out of the race or offer an endorsement of Hillary Clinton.

“The major political task that we face in the next five months is to make certain that Donald Trump is defeated and defeated badly. And I personally intend to begin my role in that process in a very short period of time,” Sanders said, according to Politico’s transcript of the speech.

Sanders also signaled that he still intends to have as much influence as possible on the Democratic platform at the party’s convention in July.

“But defeating Donald Trump cannot be our only goal. We must continue our grassroots efforts to create the America that we know we can become. And we must take that energy into the Democratic National Convention on July 25 in Philadelphia where we will have more than 1,900 delegates,” he said.

He mentioned his “positive discussion” with Clinton on Tuesday and said he plans on continuing to work with Clinton on the Democratic party platform.

“I look forward, in the coming weeks, to continued discussions between the two campaigns to make certain that your voices are heard and that the Democratic Party passes the most progressive platform in its history and that Democrats actually fight for that agenda,” Sanders said.

During his 23-minute speech, Sanders did not acknowledge that Clinton is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee or concede the race to her.

Despite Sanders’ apprehension to drop out of the race, his campaign is no longer actively courting superdelegates, his campaign manager told MSNBC on Thursday.

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  1. Forgot his tax returns again?

  2. Bernie’s becoming irrelevant, HRC no longer needs his endorsement. Because,Drumpf is scaring the shit out of everyone and alienating GOP leadership.

  3. Step one in moving your cause forward is accepting that you lost the popular vote, suspending your campaign for the nomination and endorsing Hillary Clinton for President.

    But this combative, intransigent refusal to do so is what is creating an environment where your supporters viciously slander and attack Elizabeth Warren on Facebook for the crime of endorsing Clinton.

    You are now damaging your cause. What you fail to see is that many Clinton supporters support your “cause” of moving the Democrats to the left, but you are pushing them away by acting as if anyone who backs Clinton is the enemy. Get over it, suspend and endorse then move forward.

  4. “Super delegates! … Super delegates! … Get off my lawn!”

  5. Just in case it wasn’t clear before, now we know why nobody who actually worked with the guy was willing to endorse him. It’s not because the Evil Clinton Machine was threatening to eat their first-borns. It was because he’s an intransigent old fool suffering from the delusion that he has a monopoly on wisdom, and from an infantile petulance toward anybody too stupid to follow his bidding.

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