If Bernie Sanders wins the Dem nomination, will Claire McCaskill and Julian Castro support him?

[brentspeak]

And will Hillary's Goldman Sachs' buddies do likewise?

[Thinkingabout]

1. Bernie Sanders will not win the nomination. Both have already said they are endorsing Hillary.

[cantbeserious]

5. Bernie Will Win The Nomination - Despite The Establishments Attempts To Torpedo Him

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[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. I expect the original poster to take umbrage at your observation

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[mwooldri]

9. *IF*. If he wins the nomination, will Claire McCaskill and Julian Castro support him?

That is the question.

Let's set aside a moment the matter of who will win the nomination. Yes Ms. McCaskill and Mr. Castro are supporting Ms. Clinton. My gut feeling is that they will support Mr. Sanders, or whoever the winner of the Democratic Party primary election contest is. Whether they'll get all enthusiastic about it if the nominee isn't Ms. Clinton is another matter. But I'm 99% certain that they'll vote in the general election for the Democratic Party nominee.

[tularetom]

2. Maybe, maybe and no

[cantbeserious]

3. Red Herring Question - Asks A Hypothetical That Does Not Matter

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[Andy823]

4. Of course Claire McCaskill and Julian Castro

Will support him. As will those on this board who are Clinton supporters. The only people I have seen here on DU that say they won't vote for the nominee unless it's their candidate that wins are those who also "claim" to be Bernie supporters. I wonder why that is?

[NorthCarolina]

7. Why?

Simple, they don't want to vote for status-quo. I agree with them.

[Andy823]

19. Then why are they here?

DU is here to promote democrats, help them get elected. So if they only want "their" candidate and refuse to vote for anyone else, why are they even here?

[NorthCarolina]

20. Reclaiming

the Democratic Party from the plutocrats.

[JackInGreen]

24. ^^THIS^^

[Thinkingabout]

8. Hum, I have read several times on DU people saying they will stay at home rather than voting for

Hillary, some say they will have to hold their nose to vote for Hillary, oh and the names pinned on Hillary, corporate Democrat, war hawk, it goes on and on. Also remarks like Hillary has had twenty five years of exposure in the public. Actually it is Twenty three years and if this is bad then twenty five years of national experience must be worse.

[Nothingcleverjustray]

10. I will totally stay home if

Hillary is in the general. Actually, if Bernie doesn't win the primary, my vote is going to Jill Stien. People say those things about Hilary because they are mostly true.

[AndreaCG]

17. Then thanks for President Trump, or Jeb

Do you not remember or care about Nader in 2000? I do. The democratic nominee gets my vote, period. And this is DEMOCRATIC Underground so if you're not a Democrat you should go elsewhere.

[JoePhilly]

11. Dems will support the Dem nominee.

Idiots will stay home and let the GOP win.

[Motown_Johnny]

12. Yes. They will all get on board or look like PUMAs.

That was a huge embarrassment for the party and the Clinton wing in particular.

If/when Hillary loses it will be time to defend the legacy of the Clinton name and fade quietly into the background.



And for all those people who think that they can see into the future just to crap on a hypothetical question:







Updated yesterday, the trend continues. Those polls you said were outliers, NOT!

[vadermike]

15. trend is clear

Bernie moving up... HRC moving down.. lets get this thing in high gear.. and Kick some GOTP butt and get our next FDR in the WH!! I was a strong HRC supporter and unfortnatly she is no longer the strongest we have to keep the GOTP from getting the WH in 16//// This was a massive self inflicted wound.. what the hell was her team thinking?? And their response has been as bad as the Kerry response team in 04.. i don't want to go thru this crap again! We need to win next year and down ticket too... It shoudl scare the shit out of people that Ted Fucking Cruz or BatShit Carson or Jeb Bush or Donald is even tieing her or Leading her convincingly in the polls that she is cooked... toasted... .. thats the way i see it.... !

[vadermike]

13. GE

iT looks like Bernie has all the momentum now.. he could go all the way to the WH.. we need to win in 16 and Hillary is damaged beyond Repair now.. those were some ugly GE polls.. i think she is cooked now I hope Bernie gets massive donations from us regular folk.. he is gonna need every penny to fight the GOPT smear machine... But i think he is ready.. people like his straight talk

[Agschmid]

14. Yes.

[HereSince1628]

16. I doubt Goldman Sachs steps up to fund Sanders, but I'd expect establishment dems

Setting loyalty questions aside, because we SHOULD assume party loyalty...

At that point there are advantages to backing the candidate that just could be president and in a position to be of assistance.

For the folks who love log-rolling and quid-pro-quo it wouldn't be -pragmatic- to do otherwise.

[left-of-center2012]

18. No

Clinton and her supporters will sit home, plotting her relaunch four years later.

[vadermike]

21. ?

I was a strong Hillary person and most of the people that I know that are strong Hillary people will support Bernie wholeheartedly .. So I don't think there is a prob with that. My friend of mine likes Trump but said he will support Bernie if Bernie is the nominee , he was a strong Hillary person too. I think Hillary is toasted. Bernie has the mo

[oasis]

22. Of course they will, only a goddam weasel would do otherwise.

I know for sure, those two true Democrats are not weasels.

[TSIAS]

23. They would endorse him

But not really life a finger to help. McCaskill knows MO is going red, and only her shrewdness saved her in 2012. It's either a place in Clinton's cabinet, or she goes down with the likes of Blanch Lincoln and Mary Landrieu.