Hillary Clinton

For instance, if you've spent most of your political career criticizing the party from the outside, you will not be allowed inside. Let's say Bernie had decided to run as an independent from the outset. There's little question that he would have gotten nowhere. Now, having availed himself of our party structure and the party's national standing, he has become a candidate with national standing. But having no demonstrable loyalty to our party, no one can be certain where he goes from here. He has used the party structure to denigrate the party---poisoned many Democrats against the party from within the party. Now he wants to hold his adherents hostage in an effort to blackmail the party into conceding to his demands. Going forward, we cannot allow this to ever happen again.