The Democratic primaries are still going on, and Bernie Sanders has said—against long mathematical odds against Hillary Clinton—that he is planning to stay in the race until the Philadelphia convention in July.
However, after the convention, then what?
On CNN, Sanders’s campaign manager Jeff Weaver said that regardless of the convention’s outcome, the campaign will work overtime to ensure that Donald Trump isn’t president:
“Well, he certainly has said that he will do everything—he will work seven days a week, night and day, to make sure Donald Trump is not president, and I’m confident that he will do that,” said Weaver. “Bernie Sanders, as you know, is a very effective campaigner on the stump.”
Weaver continued, saying that the message would focus on how another Republican president would be a “disaster” for the working and middle class:
“And I think he'll take the message to them that Donald Trump would be a disaster for working-class and middle-class families in this country,” Weaver continued. “Putting the Republicans back in control of Washington is not a good strategy.”
He continued, predicting a bloody battle between Clinton and Trump.
“It’s gonna be a mudslinging contest. The Trump people, the Republican Party, all their super PACS, are gonna engage in character assassination no matter who the nominee is, and that’s what it’s gonna be focused on. It’s unfortunate, but as long as there a Democratic primary process going on, people are talking about issues that are important not only to Democrats but to Americans as a whole.”
