Clinton Looks to Finish Sanders While Keeping His Voters in Fold

[Purveyor]

The Democratic presidential race entered a new phase following Super Tuesday, with Bernie Sanders vowing to fight on and Hillary Clinton attempting to start focusing on the general election without alienating her rival or his base of young voters.

The two candidates have very different tasks over the next month. For Sanders, it’s making sure his populist message finds a home in the party platform and in the general election campaign. Clinton is seeking to put the primary race behind her and to make sure Sanders’s supporters will be going into the voting booths come the November election.

Clinton will do well to be kind to Sanders in the coming weeks even as she presses to lock down the nomination, said Senator Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat backing the former secretary of state who is viewed as a potential running mate.

“We’ve got to start pulling ourselves together because our unity will be critical as we get to November, and I think she’s already starting to do that,” Kaine said.

Victory Speeches

Clinton has handled Sanders gingerly in her debate performances and victory speeches. She frequently congratulates him, as she did Tuesday night, for his strong performance and expresses pride in the way they’ve both run a civil campaign, a pointed contrast to the Republican nomination fight.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-02/clinton-s-best-day-is-behind-her-sanders-adviser-says

[FarPoint]

1. Sounds reasonable.

It's the right way to go...leadership skills in motion.

[SamKnause]

2. Good luck with that !!!

[marions ghost]

3. Hmmmmmmm

This is what the guy being interviewed in the video along with this article says about Sanders. NOT a way to win friends:

"While Sanders is well-funded and it’s “hard to imagine him just falling away to the side,’’ he’s not likely to raise any new issues that could change the dynamic of the race, Alan Patricof, co-founder at Greycroft Partners LLC and a Clinton supporter, said on "Bloomberg Markets” on Wednesday. “He says the same thing every single day in every single speech, and so he’s not going to come up with something new.’’

[Downwinder]

4. I'm an American. Bribe me with cash.

Not like Bill, no lip service.

[haikugal]

6. Ick....

[monicaangela]

5. The next time you have an opportunity to send a note to the author of that piece

please tell him this for me, " Too Little, Too Late, No Way, Never Happen."

Thank you!

[haikugal]

7. I don't think they have a clue. We are against everything the Clintons stand for, EVERYTHING!

We will not fall in line.

Enough is enough.

Fuck this shit!

[Punkingal]

8. Fuck this shit is right!

[Ferd Berfel]

16. yep

How that hell do they expect me to just bend over when she represents what pissed me off and what I fight against?

I guess only a Clinton supporter could do that. Pragmatic, no integrity, no guts, but Pragmatic.

[haikugal]

18. Wall Street red, Wall Street blue....

Exactly!!

[fredamae]

9. Too Late - Shark Jumped Long Ago n/t

[Bjorn Against]

10. I know I am not going to forget how her campaign treated Bernie supporters

Her campaign spent months calling us "Berniebros" if she thinks we are going to forget that and believe she is on our side she is wrong.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Yeah, like that's gonna happen.

A whole of of fake populism to appease the proles and then a sharp right turn when the win is in the bag.

[Bluenorthwest]

12. At the start of the primary I was neutral on Hillary, then she defended DOMA and ran vicious

tropes dealing in divisive ideas which remind me far too much of her years ranting against LGBT equality, she is the only Democrat I know who always 'otherizes' fellow Democrats, I'm so tired of that I could puke. She's still the same person who was against the rights of millions of people for her own advantage. This time she torched the party itself because the times have changed and you can't get by with simply bashing away at LGBT any longer. Barf.

[LuvLoogie]

13. Clinton looks to win the nomination while unifying the party.

See, that's a headline too.

[Arazi]

14. HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Yeah, right

[Autumn]

15. “We’ve got to start pulling ourselves together because our unity will be critical as we get to

November, and I think she’s already starting to do that,” Kaine said.



Got two, no make that three words for you David Brock bullshit

[djean111]

17. As someone up-thread already wisely commented - bwahahahahahaha!

I don't care what Hillary says about Bernie, really - I cannot support someone who is for war and fracking and the Third Way neo-con wish list. It is the damned ISSUES that count.

Nothing Hillary can do or say about that - she owns it. No matter how polite and gracious she "acts".