Hillary Clinton has been handed the irrefutable high ground after Bernie Sanders Nevada antics
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Just two days ago, Hillary Clinton finally grew tired of the months of dishonest accusations and false innuendo being thrown at her by the Bernie Sanders campaign, and she made the seemingly calculated move of calling him out on it. She made a point of accusing him of “lying” about her, thus forcing the media to publicly answer the question of whether Sanders is indeed running a dirty campaign. Was it likely to work? That wasn’t yet clear. But Clinton has now been handed an automatic victory in that integrity battle, because Bernie Sanders just stole Nevada today.
We all remember two months ago when Hillary Clinton won the Nevada caucus by about five percent of the vote. But today, Clark County Nevada finally held its nominating convention. Through a stunning series of antics on the part of Sanders fanatics that were so physically out of hand it involved the police, along with a caucus chairwoman who got caught feeding inappropriate details to the Sanders campaign, it appears that just enough county delegates were illegitimately flipped over to Sanders such that he may now have “won” the state. It won’t hurt Clinton, but it’s a huge problem for Sanders.
Nevada’s delegates are proportional. At best, Sanders may have picked up three four national delegates with today’s antics – and that’s if it doesn’t end up being reversed by whatever judge this matter quickly ends up in front of. He’s down by hundreds of delegates nationwide, and that’s before getting to the superdelegates, because he’s losing by more than 2.5 million votes. Mathematically, speaking, the Nevada reversal is no more than a rounding error and in no way helps him meaningfully catch up. But it just handed Clinton the blunt instrument she had been looking for with which to hit Sanders in the integrity department.
Although the past few months have seen Bernie Sanders embarking on one of the most consistently blatant and historically under-reported in the modern history of Presidential elections, he and his campaign have been smart enough to stick to the inside-baseball stuff. The average voter doesn’t care that he faked an endorsement from the AARP, or that he snuck his employees into a union cafeteria. However, all Americans understand an entire state being “stolen” from the candidate who definitely won it. Everyone remembers Florida in 2000. This is even more blatant, and even more easily understandable.
And so just two days after Hillary Clinton made the gambit of forcing the media to focus on whether “good guy underdog” Bernie Sanders has indeed turned to the dark side, and before the upcoming Monday morning newspaper headlines and talk show narratives have even been scripted, Bernie Sanders – or his supporters – went and stole an entire state whose majority had clearly voted for Clinton.
All she has to do now is point to Nevada to make her case. How can Bernie Sanders be “Mr. Integrity” if his goons are cheating their way into stealing states that were already definitively decided by the will of the voters months ago? In fact Hillary Clinton doesn’t even have to point to it. Nevada just wrote the Monday morning headlines for her. She forced the question of whether the Sanders campaign is an honest one, and now the answer will be “Clinton was right.”
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