Sanders releases statement on Trump victory

Instead, I want to focus on a peculiar absence I’ve noticed in the aftermath.

The results of this presidential election shocked me, to say the very least. This is not, thank God, a Ralph Nader situation.

So much as Bernie Sanders promised during his own presidential campaign to help the working and middle class, his statement makes an assumption about the average Trump voter, and it is wrong. Trump won it fair and square.

For too many in key locations, a Clinton presidency indicated four more years of an Obama administration. What happened to the revolution?

I 100% believe Bernie Sanders could have beaten Trump. ‘Working families across this country are deeply frustrated about an economy and a government that doesn’t work for them’. On Facebook, I directed my support toward a third party candidate so in the future a third party would have a better chance at winning the election.

“As we contemplate the dark days ahead, and then as we suffer through them, we Democrats should remember that it could have been entirely different”. He would have succeeded where Clinton failed. Asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer whether he would’ve brought Democrats to the White House, Sanders smiled before bellowing. He is the most authentic politician out there, and the millennials were smitten with him and his message.

The statement was Sanders’ first public comment since Trump’s stunning win Tuesday.

I think of the women I grew up with in OH, who have fought for control over their own reproductive rights since Governor John Kasich took over the state in 2011. Cory Booker among others as potential role models for other Democrats. Minority voters – also disgruntled by the insufficient progress they’ve made over the last eight years – needed someone slightly more leftwing than Clinton to be their champion. Although Mrs. Clinton won 54 percent of the millennial vote compared to Mr. Trump’s 37 percent, she didn’t turn out enough of them to secure a general election victory. He would have neutered himself, and his cause, for pride. In other words, he or she has to be a progressive like Sanders. If she followed through, great, and if she didn’t, he’d be there to call her out and rally his powerful base.

If this election has taught the American people anything, it’s that expectations do not always equal reality.

He went on to call the Democratic defeat an “embarrassment”, saying that Clinton’s biggest hurdle was her failure to appeal to the white working class. Without any baggage from his personal life other than being a self-avowed Socialist, he would have eaten into Trump’s supporters by genuinely agreeing with them that the system is not serving most Americans well.

Donna Brazile is now serving as the party’s interim chair through March 2017 after stepping in replace Debbie Wasserman Schultz in July when Wikileaks released emails showing that Democratic officials tried to help Clinton clinch the nomination, instead of playing the role of neutral arbiter in determining the nominee.

Is this it? Is it a new era of cooperation between the far left and far right?

Sanders is backing Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison.