Donald Trump.
"I believe that a large percentage of his [Sanders'] people vote for Trump. You watch," Trump told cheering supporters Thursday at a campaign event in Lawrenceville, N.J. "The one thing he's right on is trade."
In reality, we’re more unified now than we were in 2008. So like I wrote last week, the problem isn’t Bernie Sanders’ supporters, it’s Bernie Sanders himself. Though giving Donald Trump false hope is certainly not among his top sins. It’s actually kinda hilarious.
And the party is starting to offer concessions:
Heck, I’d give him all the seats, since no one except Sanders ever cares about the platform. If people want to fight over a document that no one will ever read or reference after the convention, all the power to them! But such concessions should go both ways. Sanders needs to tone down criticism of our party’s nominee, and ideally he could fundraise for other great progressives (like he’s done sparingly in the past). I’m not talking surrendering his list to the establishment party. I mean using it to build a bench of great progressives at all levels of government. His movement can be bigger than himself—if he allows it to be.
Or he can let Trump try to scoop it up. It doesn’t seem like a hard decision.