I posed a question in another diary yesterday asking if Bernie still had Secret Service Protection and when would it end. I posed the question because Sanders has not “ suspended” his campaign. Well, seems as if the Washington Post has the same question. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/an-expensive-reminder-that-sanders-still-hasnt-dropped-out-his-secret-service-detail/2016/06/19/a3f717c6-3555-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html
Short answer to my question is Sanders keeps the Secret Setvice protection until he “suspends” his campaign. When Ben Carson suspended his campaign he only had Secret Service protection for 2 more days.
After Carson announced he was suspending his campaign, he parted ways with his Secret Service detail within two days, according to Armstrong Williams, one of his closest friends and an informal adviser. The agents dropped off after traveling with Carson to his home in West Palm Beach, said Williams, a conservative political commentor.
“He wasted no time,” Williams said of Carson. “His attitude was, ‘There’s no path forward, and I don’t want to spend the taxpayers’ money.”
Below is Bernie and Jeff Weaver’s take.
Depending on how that effort goes, it’s possible that Sanders could endorse Clinton before the July 25 start of the convention in Philadelphia, Sanders’s campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, said.
Yet even if that happens, Sanders has no plans to suspend his campaign before the convention, when the party’s platform is finalized, Weaver said.
Asked to explain the distinction between endorsing another candidate and dropping out, Weaver shrugged his shoulders and demurred.
The senator from Vermont declined repeated requests over the past week for an interview about the status of his campaign.
I must admit I really don't understand Bernie, maybe that is why I could not connect to him. But with each passing day he is revealing his real character, the true soul of the man. His cause might be righteous but this is the United States of America. We do not believe in any means necessary , like overthrowing a democracy, to achieve your goals. What type of righteousness is it to bilk hard working Americans out of their money to continue to provide you with a $40,000 a day Secret Setvice detail? We should have known this playbook by now. Anytime Bernie and his campaign could continue to keep bilking his supporters out of their hard earned money when they did not have a snow balls chance in hell to win. This type of righteousness I don't want any part of and from the democratic process that just concluded I am with the majority.
The Democratic Primaries are over. Hillary Clinton is the Presumptive Nominee, Bernie should have the protection that the other 99 Senators are accorded no more no less.
BTW I read an article last night how some of Bernie's supporters are practicing how to get arrested in Philly. Why “ practice” how to get arrested? If you break the law you are arrested.