Seth Meyers takes a closer look at the untimely email hack that is affecting top level Democrats, whose success may now hinge on Bernie Sander’s ability to convince his followers to vote for Hillary Clinton. As Rackjite pointed out in a recent article about the nefarious General Petraeus, Republican shenanigans of much greater importance than the Democratic email debacle are generally swept under the national rug and forgotten. In this case, rabid Republicans are overjoyed to join with Sanders supporters in pointing accusatory fingers at Hillary. Chants of ‘burn the witch’ can be heard from both camps!
With Sanders folks, it doesn’t help that the recent emails reveal staffers lobbing ideas back and forth with an eye toward discrediting Bernie Sanders. For many Sanders peeps, this is the first political race in which they’ve taken part. The very notion that Bernie would throw his endorsement to his former rival is an anathema to them!
While Bernie has begged, directed and reasoned with his supporters to vote for Hillary Clinton, they react as if Bernie is speaking from a hostage situation, with a gun pointed at his head. Not only do they refuse to vote for anyone but Bernie, they refuse to believe that he has quit the race! Bernie is struggling to convince his faithful followers that a vote for anyone but Hillary, is a vote that simply gives Trump a pudgy leg-up.