Bernie Sanders announced that he is quitting the corrupt Democratic party, just moments after giving Hillary Clinton a tepid endorsement.
Vowing to going back to being an Independent, the Vermont Senator felt relieved that he would not have to campaign on behalf of Hillary Clinton – a candidate who faces charges of fraud and deception with the IRS and FBI respectively.
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Heatst.com reports:
Sanders, who considers himself, officially, an Independent in Congress because his views lean further left than the Democratic party’s platform, caucuses with Democrats. But until declaring an intention to run for the presidency in 2015, he had rarely, if ever, identified as a member of the Democratic Party (he’s been in politics since 1979).
And now, despite pleading with his base to support Hillary, even though they’re concerned that she’s too moderate, Sanders will return to Vermont and to his seat in the Senate, and he’ll do it with no official party affiliation.
Bernie Sanders tells @bpolitics breakfast w/reporters he'll return to the Senate as an Independent, not a Dem: 'I was elected as an Ind.'
— Susan Page (@SusanPage) July 26, 2016
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was forced to resign as Chairwoman of the DNC after leaked emails revealed she’d tried to keep Sanders from challenging Clinton for the party’s nomination, might even be vindicated—sort of.
Sanders has struggled all along with whether to call himself a Democrat, even ducking the question of his party affiliation, raised by local Vermont media, just days after he declared. He later tried to reinforce that he was, indeed, a Democrat. But Sanders certainly wasn’t a party player—and that’s exactly the concern Wasserman Schultz voiced in the Wikileaks document dump.
In an April 24 email she received with an article describing the ways Sanders felt the DNC was undermining his campaign, she wrote back, “Spoken like someone who has never been a member of the Democratic Party and has no understanding of what we do.”
If Wasserman Schultz’s job was to ensure that a Democrat got the Democratic party nomination, then she might have been doing her job correctly (even if Bernie’s supporters would disagree).
There’s the additional complication, of course, that Wasserman Schultz was a vocal Clinton supporter, a Clinton surrogate and is now a senior adviser to the campaign, as she’s been officially booted from her DNC duties. But if anyone is vindicating her position, it’s Sanders, dumping the Democratic party as soon as it was no longer useful.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
I hope, Bernie is given the time to live and tell us some of the interesting things he surely does know !
The DNC, The Media, Election Fraud and the Democratic Party Platform https://theglobalinsight.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/the-dnc-the-media-election-fraud-and-the-democratic-party-platform/
I’m writing him in and voting for Green Party candidates for congress. Bernie democrats are rare, but they have my vote wherever I can vote for one. Bernie left the democrats so I feel free to vote for him and against the establishment politicians. They had to pay 700 actors to dress in Hillary paraphernalia and cheer so America would see another huge lie. The Democratic Party is extremely divided and cannot win in November. Trump that.
Hillary took all the money from the down ticket candidates and the whole party was weakened during the effort to derail Bernie Sanders. And the 30 million people supporting him with their hard earned money are not happy. The DNC fought the will of the people who wanted Bernie because many were independents and the democrats who voted him were considered traitors and told to grow up. I’m 70 years old. How much growing up am I still supposed to accomplish?
It was a HUGE gamble from the beginning. I could see the establishment setting up the Clinton/Trump fiasco over a year ago. I’m a reporter who rejected the establishment’s corruption in the 70’s and I have paid close attention to everything that’s happened in politics since the JFK assassination. I understood Watergate for more than a year before the public caught on. Everybody was brainwashed just like now.
not exactly true — understand this: http://www.snopes.com/bernie-sanders-leaves-the-democratic-party/