Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joked on Tuesday night’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that the long campaign season might not be the best way to elect someone to our highest office.
Host Jimmy Kimmel said the election season seemed to be never-ending.
“It has been going on forever,” Sanders replied.
He added, jokingly, “I’m not quite sure this is the best way to elect a president to be honest with you.”
Plus, campaigning for president is much different than being president.
“I think being a great president is having great people around you, the smartest people, the most knowledgeable people, and dealing with the important issues in our country,” Sanders said. “It’s not necessarily spending 15 hours a day, seven days a week, running around the country.”
Watch the clip, from ABC, below:
Well since you lost you could go ahead and drop out, would shorten the Democratic primaries at least.
He should not even consider dropping out. First of all, Hillary doesn’t have the delegates yet, so why quit? She didn’t concede until June in 2008.
Secondly, he has a lot of good ideas to promote and dropping out means he doesn’t get to use the bully pulpit of a candidate.
He can easily continue to campaign without damaging Clinton for the general, but pushing his ideas and policies. And he should.
He could easily continue to campaign without damaging Clinton but his trend is to attack Hillary and call her corrupt.
He is way farther behind then Clinton was and still is barely being attacked by anyone, and has extremely little super delegate support.
and his “good ideas” wall street bad, corporations bad… ok another few months of that.
Yes, Sen. Sanders. It’s the worst way - besides any other possible way. What, is there some election God above who can anoint a candidate because they have the knowledge of who is the best one, or the one most wanted by the electorate of the party?
I have a feeling his disenchantment with the primary/caucus system would be a little different if he was in a commanding lead, as would Clinton’s opinion if she was losing.
Secondly, he has a lot of good ideas to promote and dropping out means he doesn’t get to use the bully pulpit of a candidate.
This is such a lame idea it doesn’t even pass the laugh test. You don’t need a “bully pulpit” to promote good ideas. And as for promoting a political revolution, using a presidential campaign to further those ideas is misguided. Sanders has been in Congress 20+ years, now he has that pulpit and the revolution is just around the corner?
Yes, he CAN damage Clinton in the general but you probably don’t care about that.