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MrsCoffee

(5,803 posts)
12. Tad convinced him to run as a Democrat.
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 01:38 PM
Feb 2018

No idea who ultimately decided to let that happen. According to many here, no one needed to give him authority to do so.

https://www.politico.eu/article/inside-the-bitter-last-days-of-bernie-sanders-campaign-revolution-hillary-clinton-democratic-party/

“If they hadn’t started at it by really going hard at him on guns, raising a series of issues against him, that really was what led to him being much, much more aggressive than he otherwise would have been,” said Devine, the consultant who helped engineer Sanders’ plans for a protest candidacy into a real campaign (and convinced him to run as a Democrat).


Shocker, I know.
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