I think this approach is smart.  All along I believed Sanders was leading a movement more than running a campaign.  If Clinton and the D-tribe pay attention, he has won the fight and the movement will live on.  Many of his supporters were young and some of them will become the elected officials and activists of the future.


The results of Tuesday's five Democratic presidential primaries will almost certainly force Sen. Bernie Sanders to acknowledge a hard reality -- it's time for Plan B.

Sanders hasn’t said if he has a strategy for changing the focus of his campaign, and he insists he'll continue fighting through the last contest in June. But rather than insisting that victory over Hillary Clinton is still within reach, he said after Tuesday's contests that he'll go to the Democratic Party's national convention in July "with as many delegates as possible to fight for a progressive party platform."

Sanders' campaign believes the delegates he’s collected so far will give him significant clout to achieve that goal.

“I have no doubt that the representation Bernie Sanders will have at the convention will allow him to have a huge impact on the framing of the party platform and the rules and the proceedings of the convention itself,” Tad Devine, a top adviser to Sanders, said in an interview Monday. “Contrary to what may have been said about him being a ‘single issue candidate,’… I think people are going to find out how many issues he’s interested in and how important they are.”

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