The contest may be over, but the mission is not for Bernie Sanders and his supporters.
Winning the Democratic presidential nomination
is all but impossible given the current delegate count, so it's on to
Plan B: Sanders will spend the next 79 days before the Democratic
National Convention accruing as much leverage as possible before he sits
down at the bargaining table.
"The power of the political revolution to shape
what comes out of the Democratic convention will be in proportion to the
vitality and engagement of the people who have poured themselves into
the Sanders campaign thus far. So it is critical not to let up or step
back," said Ben Wikler, the Washington director of MoveOn.org, which has
endorsed Bernie Sanders. "Every door that a Sanders volunteer knocks
on, every call that a supporter makes, every dollar raised online, every
video shared, is a message to the Democratic Party that this is where
the energy is."
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Source: NBC News
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