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Bernie Sanders Can Still Beat Hillary Clinton [Video]

By Nick Younker
Published on: 10:34 PST, Jun 7, 2016

Bernie Sanders and his supporters have been dealt a major blow via the media, but that does not mean that Hillary Clinton has truly locked in a victory over the Vermont senator.

One thing that has happened in the past 24 hours is that the Associated Press has broken loose from the primary voters trail and polls, and shaken loose those highly controversial Democratic superdelegates that have become the top issue within the Democratic Party and its base of younger supporters.

The truth is, Hillary Clinton does indeed lead Bernie Sanders in the popular vote, although many would disagree with the methods that have been taken to get that official result from the party and accused them of fraud. But that does not mean that Bernie Sanders cannot pull ahead in the 11th hour, especially since California is about to voice its opinion today and vote in the Democratic primary.

The official numbers, which are the numbers that do not include the superdelegates’ votes, are 1,812 for Hillary Clinton and 1,521 for Bernie Sanders. In the Democratic primaries, the candidate needs to achieve 2,383 delegates to be the party’s nominee.

In California alone, there are 475 delegates up for grabs. That means actual delegates from the voters, not those party insider superdelegates that can vote however they want, no matter how their constituents vote. In large part, the superdelegates have mostly been favoring Hillary Clinton, even when their states vote for Bernie Sanders by a landslide. Just consider what happened in Washington State earlier this year.

The problem seems to be that the superdelegates have been tipping the scales in favor of Hillary Clinton, and that is why when voters woke up yesterday morning, they found out that the Associated Press had just coronated Hillary Clinton as the winner of the Democratic primary after they had pushed the superdelegates to reveal who they would be voting for, as reported by the New York Times.

So why would Bernie Sanders take the fight all the way to the convention? Well, for starters, there is a lesson to be learned here. If Bernie Sanders were to take massive wins in California, New Jersey, North Dakota, Montana, New Mexico, and South Dakota today, that would essentially put him over the top of Hillary Clinton by quite a distance with actual voters. So if the superdelegates from those states ignore their voters and push Hillary Clinton over the top in the Democratic primary process, then that would mean the party itself is seriously flawed and there would be a call for some major change, especially from the younger generation.

There is already a lot of pressure on DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to resign due to her handling of the primaries and her many connections to the Clinton campaign that clearly show a conflict of interest.

There is indeed a very marginal path to victory for Bernie Sanders, even if he does turn out successful today in the primaries. But by taking the contest all the way to the convention, Sanders essentially wins his revolution, even if Clinton does get crowned the nominee in Philadelphia.

So how does Sanders still win? Well, the Sanders revolution has been all about change for the better of the middle and lower class. Sanders’ campaign has been all about progress and prosperity for working-class Americans. So by taking his campaign all the way to the convention, and still losing, he is essentially exposing the party’s inherent corruptions in the primary process, thus leading to a potential mass-hiatus from the Democratic Party.

The people and the voters really are starting to wake up to these blatant corruptions, which now include the Democratic Party and their league of superdelegates that make sure that party leaders are actually the only ones who decide the nominees, not the voters.

[Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images]

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