Even before this he had forfeited any claim to the higher ground. For a few months he was beating his breast over the idea that a Super Delegate can vote other than the voters in their state. In his mind, if he won the popular vote in the primary then the Super Delegates 'have to' vote for him.
That's not true in fact. If Super Delegates have to vote for the candidate with more votes in their state, then they aren't SDs but rather bound delegates-ie, pledged delegates. That this is just a ruse on the part of Bernie-Tad Devine after all invented SDs, and knows perfectly well they aren't 'evil'-has been betrayed recently when he has started talking about actually trying to even flip pledged delegates.
So Bernie is literally saying this:
1. SDs are bound to vote for him in states he won the popular vote.
2. Pledged delegates aren't bound to Hillary in the states she won the popular vote.
To be sure, Bernie hasn't won the popular vote in many states. He has won 10 of 12 caucuses, but just 4 of 20 primaries. So he's hardly the choice of the people he claims to be.
But now that he just pulled a Ron Paul in Nevada, he can never again claim to occupy any kind of moral high ground on the subject of delegates.
"We all remember two months ago when Hillary Clinton won the Nevada caucus by about five percent of the vote. But today, Clark County Nevada finally held its nominating convention. Through a stunning series of antics on the part of Sanders fanatics that were so physically out of hand it involved the police, along with a caucus chairwoman who got caught feeding inappropriate details to the Sanders campaign, it appears that just enough county delegates were illegitimately flipped over to Sanders such that he may now have “won” the state. It won’t hurt Clinton, but it’s a huge problem for Sanders."
"Nevada’s delegates are proportional. At best, Sanders may have picked up three four national delegates with today’s antics – and that’s if it doesn’t end up being reversed by whatever judge this matter quickly ends up in front of. He’s down by hundreds of delegates nationwide, and that’s before getting to the superdelegates, because he’s losing by more than 2.5 million votes. Mathematically, speaking, the Nevada reversal is no more than a rounding error and in no way helps him meaningfully catch up. But it just handed Clinton the blunt instrument she had been looking for with which to hit Sanders in the integrity department."
"Although the past few months have seen Bernie Sanders embarking on one of the most consistently blatant and historically under-reported in the modern history of Presidential elections, he and his campaign have been smart enough to stick to the inside-baseball stuff. The average voter doesn’t care that he faked an endorsement from the AARP, or that he snuck his employees into a union cafeteria. However, all Americans understand an entire state being “stolen” from the candidate who definitely won it. Everyone remembers Florida in 2000. This is even more blatant, and even more easily understandable."
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/hillary-clinton-has-been-handed-the-irrefutable-high-ground-after-bernie-sanders-nevada-antics/24342/?utm_content=bufferb88cf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Brian Fallon on Twitter:
"Among grave issues affecting County convention results in NV: notice went out to delegates wrongly saying they didn't need to show up today"
https://twitter.com/brianefallon/status/716445697176784896
Wow, this recalls the antics of Lyin' Ted out in Iowa when told Ben Carson supporters he had left the race.
Anyway, don't fret too much Hillary lovers:
"Number of irregularities in NV today that were very troubling but we don't expect outcome to alter fact that Clinton has more NV delegates."
https://twitter.com/brianefallon/status/716445269861093377
The more you learn about Bernie's supporters the less you trust them.
That's not true in fact. If Super Delegates have to vote for the candidate with more votes in their state, then they aren't SDs but rather bound delegates-ie, pledged delegates. That this is just a ruse on the part of Bernie-Tad Devine after all invented SDs, and knows perfectly well they aren't 'evil'-has been betrayed recently when he has started talking about actually trying to even flip pledged delegates.
So Bernie is literally saying this:
1. SDs are bound to vote for him in states he won the popular vote.
2. Pledged delegates aren't bound to Hillary in the states she won the popular vote.
To be sure, Bernie hasn't won the popular vote in many states. He has won 10 of 12 caucuses, but just 4 of 20 primaries. So he's hardly the choice of the people he claims to be.
But now that he just pulled a Ron Paul in Nevada, he can never again claim to occupy any kind of moral high ground on the subject of delegates.
"We all remember two months ago when Hillary Clinton won the Nevada caucus by about five percent of the vote. But today, Clark County Nevada finally held its nominating convention. Through a stunning series of antics on the part of Sanders fanatics that were so physically out of hand it involved the police, along with a caucus chairwoman who got caught feeding inappropriate details to the Sanders campaign, it appears that just enough county delegates were illegitimately flipped over to Sanders such that he may now have “won” the state. It won’t hurt Clinton, but it’s a huge problem for Sanders."
"Nevada’s delegates are proportional. At best, Sanders may have picked up three four national delegates with today’s antics – and that’s if it doesn’t end up being reversed by whatever judge this matter quickly ends up in front of. He’s down by hundreds of delegates nationwide, and that’s before getting to the superdelegates, because he’s losing by more than 2.5 million votes. Mathematically, speaking, the Nevada reversal is no more than a rounding error and in no way helps him meaningfully catch up. But it just handed Clinton the blunt instrument she had been looking for with which to hit Sanders in the integrity department."
"Although the past few months have seen Bernie Sanders embarking on one of the most consistently blatant and historically under-reported in the modern history of Presidential elections, he and his campaign have been smart enough to stick to the inside-baseball stuff. The average voter doesn’t care that he faked an endorsement from the AARP, or that he snuck his employees into a union cafeteria. However, all Americans understand an entire state being “stolen” from the candidate who definitely won it. Everyone remembers Florida in 2000. This is even more blatant, and even more easily understandable."
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/hillary-clinton-has-been-handed-the-irrefutable-high-ground-after-bernie-sanders-nevada-antics/24342/?utm_content=bufferb88cf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Brian Fallon on Twitter:
"Among grave issues affecting County convention results in NV: notice went out to delegates wrongly saying they didn't need to show up today"
https://twitter.com/brianefallon/status/716445697176784896
Wow, this recalls the antics of Lyin' Ted out in Iowa when told Ben Carson supporters he had left the race.
Anyway, don't fret too much Hillary lovers:
"Number of irregularities in NV today that were very troubling but we don't expect outcome to alter fact that Clinton has more NV delegates."
https://twitter.com/brianefallon/status/716445269861093377
The more you learn about Bernie's supporters the less you trust them.
Lyin' Bernie.
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