Bernie woulda won if more people had voted for him.
Bernie woulda won if he weren't Bernie
Jackson Mississippi, April 5, 2018 at a town hall meeting held in memory of MLK, 50 year anniversary of his assassination. The day his campaign ship ran onto and wrecked the on rocks. It was driven there by Sanders and nobody else.
“The business model, if you like, of the Democratic Party for the last 15 years or so has been a failure,” Sanders started, responding to a question about the young voters who supported his campaign. “People sometimes don’t see that because there was a charismatic individual named Barack Obama, who won the presidency in 2008 and 2012.
“He was obviously an extraordinary candidate, brilliant guy. But behind that reality, over the last 10 years, Democrats have lost about 1,000 seats in state legislatures all across this country.”
He lost on Super Tuesday, not just because he has always been clumsy and uncomfortable when talking to audiences about racial matters as shown by his tone-deaf speech in Jackson. He lost because, as shown in that speech, he wasn't even trying to build bridges to people who didn't vote for him in 2016. He had five years where he went AWOL from the Senate to campaign for this nomination and all he did was tear at the very people he needed votes from to win the nomination.