Hillary Clinton

NastyRiffraff

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6. A "de facto endorsement"?

Fri Jun 17, 2016, 11:49 AM

Jun 2016

“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.” Those sentences, along with the election reform matter he left out, signaled a de facto endorsement of Clinton, whether his people want to admit that or not.

Not good enough. He needs to publicly and explicitly endorse the Democratic nominee, or he's not making "certain that Donald Trump is defeated and defeated badly." I don't hope for the graceful and complete endorsement Hillary Clinton gave to Obama in 2008; I don't think Sanders has that in him. But until he does endorse, however reluctantly, I don't believe him about working to defeat Trump.

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