Why does Bernie feel bad for Hillary?
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5 things we learned from Bernie Sanders’ Rolling Stone interview.
1. Sanders has moved beyond delegate math to super delegate math
“The second path is to tell the super delegates, for example, we just won by 15 points in West Virginia,” Sanders said of his alternative to a flat-out race to 1,237. “I think the people of the states will make it clear to the super delegates that they have to respect the wishes of the voters of those states and vote for the candidate who won overwhelming – I’m not talking about one or two points, I’m talking landslide – victories.”
“The third path to victory: making it clear to the super delegates that their primary goal is to make sure we defeat Donald Trump,” he continued. “And that I am, in fact, the stronger candidate … against Trump.”
2. He has no plan to work with Capitol Hill obstructionists
As far as the transcript goes, Sanders seemed brusquely realistic about his inability to affect legislative gridlock.
“What are the specifics about how I, personally, all by myself, do what nobody in American history has done?” he said. “And I’m being criticized? Why don’t you do it? Why doesn’t the editor of Rolling Stone do it? … With all due respect, that’s an absurd question.”
Instead of acting on the pipe dream of reforming the system from within, Sanders said he plans to bring his grassroots strategy with him into the Oval Office.
“The strategy – which is unprecedented, and this is where we’re talking about thinking outside the box – is to have a president who actually, vigorously goes around the country and rallies the American people, who are in favor of this idea,” he explained. “And [the president] rallies the American people and makes it clear that people in the Republican Party – or Democratic Party – who are not sympathetic will pay a political price.”
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