After the first day of the Democratic convention was frequently interrupted by delegates for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) protesting calls to unify behind Hillary Clinton, the Vermont senator told his supporters Tuesday that their jeers would not stop a Donald Trump presidency.
During a breakfast meeting with California delegates, attendees booed when Sanders said that they need to elect Clinton and defeat Trump. The senator then told the crowd that their jeers aren’t helpful.
“It is easy to boo, but it’s harder to look your kids in the face who would be living under Donald Trump,” he said.
Sanders went on to call Trump “a demagogue who does not believe in the Constitution of the United States.”
“That is dangerous stuff. So our job is to do two things. It is to defeat Trump, it is to elect Clinton. But it is not to end on Election Day,” he said.
During a morning event held by Bloomberg Politics, Sanders said he hoped his supporters would “accept the reality” that Clinton will be the Democratic nominee.
I am no fan of Sanders but at least he is finally doing the right thing, will be hard to reverse the course he led a bunch of people on though.
“It is easy to boo, but it’s harder to look your kids in the face who would be living under Donald Trump,” he said.
It would be easier to boo if there was something you thought it might accomplish except giving TRump and open canker sore Manifort talking points.
Sarah Silverman :" You are being ridiculous"
Okay, now this I’ll be grateful for!
Telling the dumber among his flock the hard truths.
Maybe now they’ll start to wise up… Please…
Would that be the same Sanders that vowed to fight all the way to the convention and then beyond even though he was mathematically eliminated?
Yes I see . Never mind
I am a fan of Bernie. (Voted for Hillary, but I like how he pulled the whole party left.)
I was afraid he would cling to some individual “victory” a la Cruz. And I worried when, in his speech, he looked forward to all his delegate votes.
But then, and since in the last 12 hours, he has been full-throated in his endorsement of Clinton, and his reasons why. I applaud his strong efforts to move his fans into Clinton supporters.
Good for Bernie.