Bernie Sanders, seeking peace with Joe Biden, asks his own delegates to turn down the volume

[mcar]

Credit where it's due. Sen. Sanders

Bernie Sanders, seeking peace with Joe Biden, asks his own delegates to turn down the volume
By Sean Sullivan
May 20, 2020 at 6:32 p.m. EDT
Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose delegates staged a raucous rebellion against Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic convention, is trying to engineer a different outcome this year — by turning down the volume on his social media-driven army of 2020 delegates.

The Vermont senator’s campaign has told some supporters picked to represent him this year to sign agreements barring attacks on other candidates or party leaders, combative confrontations on social media or talking to reporters without approval.

The move, which carried a threat of being removed as a delegate, has the effect of blunting one of the most powerful if divisive tools of Sanders’s movement — its unrestrained online presence and tendency to stoke controversy through other media, which has at times spiraled into abuse of his opponents, perceived and real.

“Refrain from making negative statements about other candidates, party leaders, Campaigns, Campaign staffers, supporters, news organizations or journalists. This Campaign is about the issues and finding solutions to America’s problems,” said the social media policy sent to some delegates. “Our job is to differentiate the senator from his opponents on the issues — not through personal attacks.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bernie-sanders-seeking-peace-with-joe-biden-asks-his-own-delegates-to-turn-down-the-volume/2020/05/20/252e06b4-9a07-11ea-89fd-28fb313d1886_story.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Took him long enough.

He should have said it a long time ago, but I'm glad he finally realized that some of the Bros are really not helping him or his reputation, let alone Biden's candidacy.

[LisaM]

3. Four years too late.

Sigh. I guess it's good that he sees them for what they are now.

[mcar]

6. I do wish we would have seen this in 2016

But I'll take it now.

[LArider]

2. Yep.

Thanks Bernie. It'll take all of us on the same page to win.

[LizBeth]

4. He waited to see his ass handed to him in Oregon. Like who is he fooling. Good, get behind Biden.

Works for me. I was so proud of Oregon.

[mcar]

7. +1

[JI7]

15. yup, he sees how it's hurting him

[LizBeth]

18. Itis clear what he did and he does not get a pat from me. As soon as he stepped out he started

declaring he still wanted to be on ballots to get delegates to have control over Biden. What is that? It was very important Oregon went Biden and let Sanders see it in his face, otherwise if there was wiggle room he would run with it. He helped to take down HRC. And yes, still pissed. Like people said below, he should have done the same with HRC.

[Cha]

5. Thanks for the news, mcar..

[mcar]

8. How are you, Cha?

I haven't heard anything about Covid in Hawaii. How are you all faring?

We don't believe anything we're hearing in FL. They are all lying.

[Cha]

11. We've been strict.. and it's paying off..

Visitors coming to the Island have to quarantine for 2 weeks before venturing out.. if they break the rules they're sent home.

Mahalo for asking, mcar!

How are you and your family doing? I have a sister and her family in Gainesville and my nephew and his girlfriend in St Pete.

[The Magistrate]

9. So It's Come To This, Ma'am --- Sanders Sells Out 'Bernie'

The teeth in those agreements had better be shown sharp and quick and soon, because the fact is Sanders really has no control over the radical types who appear as his delegates, who view him as nothing but a vehicle for their splenetic utopianism. He has 'called up that which he cannot put down', and now barely qualifies as a has-been who never was.



“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. "Splenetic utopianism"! Perfect, I love it!

[mcar]

14. Sanders sells out "Bernie"

That about says it, Magistrate.

[Blue_true]

10. I wish that Senator Sanders and his top campaign people had acted

the way they are acting now in 2016. The nation and the world would have been spared a lot of grief.

[sheshe2]

12. I wish he had done this sooner.

It should have happened in 2016. It did not. We now have 100K dead come this weekend. It shouldn't have come to this, so much incompetency in this admin could have been avoided with Hillary in charge.

I will give him a small amount of credit now, yet years to late.

[mcar]

16. Yes. How many lives would have been saved?

And I can't help but wonder if he's doing it now because Biden isn't, well, HRC, if you know what I mean.

[sheshe2]

17. Oh yes.

I know EXACTLY what you mean.