Did Elizabeth Warren Just Tell
Bernie Sanders to Sit Down and Shut Up?
Sure sounds like it.
JUN 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders supporters are
already not happy with progressive superstar Senator Elizabeth Warren because
she failed to endorse Sanders in the Democratic primary, and they're not likely
to be happy with this, either. Asked if she
supports the Superdelegate system, Warren said even though she's a
superdelegate herself, she doesn't "believe in" them.
She didn't stop there, though,
adding a shot that can't be pleasing to fans of a candidate whose only
stated path
to victory is to convince superdelegates to overturn the will of the
pledged delegates, the majority of whom will have been won by Hillary Clinton:
I don't think that superdelegates
ought to sway the election.
The natural followup question
that Bernie Sanders might ask is "Then what are they for?" That's the
rationale behind fighting to get rid of Superdelegates, while also using them
just this one last time.
Warren has stayed out of the
Democratic primary fight, a fact which Bernie seems to at least grudgingly accept,
but Warren's stance here doesn't bode well for him being able to convince any
Supers to flip. Anyone willing to cross Hillary isn't likely to also want to
cross Warren.
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