"Sanders signals the end is near"

After spending an hour meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House, Bernie Sanders vowed to stay in the race for Tuesday's District of Columbia primary while acknowledging that he would work with Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump in the general election.

Sanders ticked through a list of his priorities, promising to take those issues to the convention in Philadelphia next month.

"Donald Trump would clearly to my mind and I think the majority of Americans be a disaster as president of the United States. It is unbelievable to me and I say this in all sincerity that the Republican Party would have a candidate for president who in the year 2016 makes bigotry and discrimination the cornerstone of his campaign. In my view the American people will not vote for or tolerate a candidate who insults Mexicans and Latinos, who insults Muslims, who insults African-Americans and women," Sanders said.

"Needless to say, I am going to do everything in my power and I will work as hard as I can to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States." […] Politico

Honestly I would expect him to stay in the race until the final primary in D.C.

However, what he does after that will surely tell just what kind of man he truly is.

more experienced staffers who think the kids got way too high on their sense of the difference between a movement and an actual campaign.

A lot of these Bernie supporters are kids who never voted before. They don't understand how all this works. All they think is if they scream loud enough they can make everything go their way. They don't know or don't care this is a campaign and not just a movement. That is the only reason I can see why anybody thinks the super delegates should give the nomination to the second place guy just because they said so.

You might be on to something Truth. I was just arguing with a friend of mine in California about this last night. Bernie said last year he thought whoever got the most votes is who should get the super delegates. Well Hillary got the most votes. So now he's trying to forget all that because it doesn't work out in his favor. Then he bad mouthed the system about getting rid of super delegates. But if Dems did that now he would still lose because he wouldn't have anybody to beg to give him the nomination. The votes would have been it. This man is a hypocrit and a spoiled baby that is throwing a tantrum for not getting his way. He lost it's over and he should just be adult and accept it.

It's also not lost on me that reportedly 20-25% of Bernie's supporters say they'd back Trump over Hillary if Bernie doesn't get the nomination.

Think about that.

In whose world does making the leap from supporting Sanders to supporting Trump seem rational?!

Well I'd say in the world of those who are so motivated by hate they can't see straight. And spare me the false claim that Trump and Sanders are fighting for the same or "similar" causes.

Trump is pathological liar and dangerous fraud exploiting White American Nativism for his own self-aggrandizement. The similarities between him and Sanders are, IMO, limited to this: both are older and wealthy WHITE males. Also, most of Bernie's wins came from small, overwhelmingly WHITE caucus states. And Trump has shown himself to be the dream candidate of WHITE nationalists.

There you have it.

…and I cosign with all points made.

I'll probably never know if I'm right in my thinking about this but……….

I'd bet that Bernie's decision to turn a civil and rational contest into an all out bloody "revolution" against Hillary and the DNC was strongly encouraged by a few of his major surrogates, in particular, Nina Turner- a big mouth left-wing extremist, IMO.

Turner is also Black-American and quite a piece of work.

Politico: "Sanders supporters warn Obama: Don't try to stop Bernie "

Thursday morning in the Oval Office, Obama will take his not-so-subtle campaign to ease Sanders out of an active campaign directly to the senator himself. But he’ll need to be diplomatic.

Even as some top supporters have started backing down since Tuesday night when Hillary Clinton claimed the Democratic nomination—and a planned Sanders letter to superdelegates campaigning for them to back him over Clinton appears in limbo—frustration is bubbling among those who want the senator to keep the campaign going.

They view the president as trying to end the fight prematurely. They warn that it won’t work, and that the blowback might show him he’s not as popular with the Sanders wing of the Democratic Party as he might like to think.

“The president is not Senator Sanders’ boss. We’ve got to get this straight here,” said Nina Turner, a former Ohio state senator who’s been traveling the country on behalf of the campaign. “There’s respect that’s for the commander in chief … But Senator Sanders is duly elected, and he’ll make his own decisions.”

Or else. […]

Or else what?!

To the degree that I've paid any attention to the Sanders campaign at all, I have taken note of Nina Turner, the last several months. The fact that she and her extremist ilk took license to "warn" the President as to what he'd better NOT do or else..!?!…tells you all you need to know about some of Bernie's supporters. Nasty, bitter and spiteful folks filled with resentments for perceived "injustices" (real or imagined). But I digress.

Ultimately, Bernie is the one most responsible for allowing his campaign to devolve into what it became.

An angry and chaotic mess….and lost cause.