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http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/jane-sanders-bernie-comeback-222568Bernie Sanders may be down, but he is certainly not out of the race, Jane Sanders said Thursday, predicting that her husband would win a slew of victories going forward into May and beyond that will keep him competitive leading up to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
"You remember in mid-March after a string of losses, the media wrote his political obituary and we came back to win eight in a row," she said in an interview with MSNBC's "Morning Joe" from Burlington, Vermont, adding, "So we're expecting to do the same here."
The comments come a day after the Sanders campaign began laying off hundreds of campaign workers in states that voted Tuesday rather than having them stay on for future contests. Sanders' campaign dismissed the notion that the layoffs represent a posture of weakness, with campaign spokesman Michael Briggs telling POLITICO on Wednesday that it comes "from a posture of reality."
"It was a difficult time," Jane Sanders said of the recent electoral defeats. "We knew that New York had 3 million independents that couldn't vote in the closed primary and they would have had to change their party registration back in October last year."
"Four out of the five contests that were just done last Tuesday were closed primaries again," she continued. "The open primary, Rhode Island, we won. Connecticut, we came very, very close, and if it had been an open primary, we have no doubt we would have won. Pennsylvania, we would have come close or won."
The campaign, she said, is "feeling good."
"And most of the primaries going forward are open, which I think is much more democratic," she said. "It's also a smarter move for the Democratic Party, because if you close the primary and you only have people that have been in the Democratic Party for years, what you are doing is effectively shutting the door on the millions of people that Bernie has brought into the political process during this election. So we're going to go forward."
"His general bold vision for the future actually affects them disproportionately," she argued, "because, as you say, a lot of them have lower incomes, they are concerned about the cost of higher education, and a number of the issues that Bernie puts out there.
Money....
Its never going to end ,I guess she doesn't understand MATH either......
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)LisaM
(27,811 posts)Then she wonders that the campaign isn't attracting minority voters.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)I wonder what sanders going to with all the contributions once he is out?..
Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)MBS
(9,688 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Just like him, she's begun to believe in her own myth--Jane Sanders, future FLOTUS.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)...suckers.
Looks like the grifters are going to start milking the left now that its worked so well on the right.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)have gotten any votes, after all, seems like the problems with not getting the votes are the closed primaries. No, there is not 3 million independents in the closed primary.
Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)Unless he believes in fairly Land...
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)She believes magic ...LOL how true
UtahLib
(3,179 posts)pandr32
(11,584 posts)And have been doing it all along.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)math is hard.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)uponit7771
(90,339 posts)MBS
(9,688 posts)And the more I hear her, the less I like her.
In fact, her position as Bernie's closest policy adviser, along with Devine and Weaver as campaign managers (both of whom I detest) are among the factors that ultimately sent me in Hillary's direction.
Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)Jane Sanders said, "And most of the primaries going forward are open...".
However, that is simply NOT the case.
DATE__________STATE/TERRITORY > TYPE
05/03__________Indiana > Open
05/07__________Guam > Closed Caucus
05/10__________West Virginia > Semi-Closed
05/17__________Kentucky > Closed
05/17__________Oregon > Closed
06/04__________Virgin Islands > Closed Caucus
06/05__________Puerto Rico > Open
06/07__________California > Semi-Closed
06/07__________Montana > Open
06/07__________New Jersey > Closed
06/07__________New Mexico > Closed
06/07__________North Dakota > Open
06/07__________South Dakota > Semi-Open
06/14__________Washington, D.C. > Closed
Open/Semi-Open - 5
Closed/Semi-Closed - 7
Closed Caucus - 2
TOTAL - 14