This would solve the problem of getting Sanders voters.

Bernie's top strategist: 'Maybe they’re going to put him on the ticket'

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Ask people in Hillary Clinton’s world if they have a secret weapon to help win over voters under the age of old, and many will offer this answer: Bernie Sanders.
All you had to do was watch Sunday night’s debate in Flint to realize Sanders isn’t nearly ready to quit, although the two candidates’ shoulder-to-shoulder proximity no doubt sparked dreams of the 74-year-old socialist, improbably spritzed by the political fountain of youth, barnstorming with Clinton on college campuses come October.

When I mentioned all this to Sanders’ top strategist Tad Devine, he responded with a big belly laugh – then he went there.“Maybe they’re going to put him on the ticket then,” Devine told me during a wide-ranging 45-minute interview for POLITICO’s “Off Message” podcast. He wasn’t joking, as far as I could tell. This was a few hours before Devine was headed off to Michigan, to help his boss prepare for the debate – and he expressed hope that his untamable candidate would keep whacking her on all those paid Goldman Sachs speeches (Bernie obliged).

But the veep idea clearly tickled the 60-year-old D.C.-based consultant, a former strategist to the Carter, Mondale, Gore and Kerry campaigns whom Sanders views as his bridge to a party establishment he detests (in a genial, nothing-personal way).“I’m sure, of course, anyone would,” Devine says when I ask if he could see a scenario where Sanders would actually say yes. They haven’t talked about the possibility, Devine adds, and says Sanders would never, ever consider it “unless you know, it was done in the right and proper way.” That's a far cry from last year when Sanders and Co. rebuffed the second-banana suggestion by countering with an offer to give Clinton the vice-presidential slot on his ticket.

But it’s been a sobering, though not especially unexpected, couple of back-down-to-earth weeks for his team. The race has reset itself to its Hillary-is-inevitable default after the Vermont senator fought her to a virtual tie in Iowa and humbled Clinton with a 22-point victory in his neighboring state of New Hampshire. Clinton reestablished herself as the prohibitive front-runner with her 48-point thrashing of Sanders in South Carolina – and a string of Super Tuesday wins in the South reinforced her iron grip on about 80 percent of black voters.Sanders won’t be offering his services anytime soon – and, more importantly, Devine suggested that his boss wouldn’t heed the counsel of many Clintonites who want him to ease up on the front-runner for the good of a party Sanders only recently joined – nor will he soft-pedal his differences with President Barack Obama, an approach that has likely cost him with black voters. “Bernie has differences with the president and they are substantive,” he said – singling out Obama’s push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

And he didn’t object when I suggested that Sanders’ entire candidacy be viewed as an expression of progressive dissatisfaction with the pace of progress during the Obama years. “So it’s always going to be difficult because there has to be at least implicit criticism of wage growth [during the Obama years], but I think the way Bernie has done it is by first always recognizing the accomplishments of the president, and the vice president, too is part of the story, and then moving to the differences that he has.”