Bernie Sanders put up a good fight, but in the end, he didn't do the two things he needed to do yesterday to stay in the race.
The Bern was beaten soundly in California and did not close the gap in the overall popular vote.
He also lost three of the other six contests yesterday, giving Hillary Clinton the indisputable presumptive Democratic nomination.
Hillary ran a solid and clean primary campaign and deserves respect for that and our congratulations for making history as the first female presidential nominee of a major political party.
Bernie and wife Jane are returning to Vermont to "take a few days." When they emerge again, I believe they'll be bearing a message of conciliation, party unity and healing, and a new focus on helping Hillary defeat Donald Trump.
She now can shift her total attention to facing off against him.
Hillary proved she could wound Trump with her 'foreign policy' speech six days ago. He did her a big favor by wounding himself even more severely.
Though Nubbs said he won't talk about it anymore, his unprovoked and flagrantly racist attack on federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel--and continued refusal to apologize for it--deeply wounded him and is not going away.
Being a political neophyte, Trump may have may have been forgiven for committing this cardinal sin of American politics--making an even remotely racist remark.
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| Oh, and by the by, have you seen my African American? He's the latest in my collection, don't you know? |
But for The Donald, it wasn't a one off, likely not his last, and continues to freak out important members of the GOP. Not to mention, no Democrat running for any national office is going to let it slide.
With her equally egregious negatives and his potty mouth, the Hill vs. Nubbs slugfest is going to be five months of pure nastiness. I hope we can stomach what we're in for.
In a vacuum, Hillary would seem to have every advantage needed to wipe the floor with Donald Trump. But not much in this race has gone as expected. Reality, as we all know, hasn't exactly been happening in a laboratory.
Trump can't really control himself and doesn't actually grasp why what he says is racist, e.g. "Look at my African American."
He doesn't get that each faux pas slipping through his loose lips is another little torpedo aimed directly at his own campaign.
Ultimately, Trump's inability to see the world through anything but patriarchal white man's lenses will do him in.
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