The longer Bernie Sanders stays in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, the more unraveled and divided his party is becoming.
Recently we showed Senator Barbara Boxer's epic meltdown in Nevada, when she completely lost it after being booed by Sanders supporters. The scene was indicative of just how frayed and chaotic the Democratic party is right now, something the mainstream media won't cover of course, as it doesn't fit into the anti-Trump narrative the media dutifully is carrying out.
While all Hillary wants to do (aside from staying out of jail) is rid herself of Bernie Sanders so the campaign can turn its attention to Trump, Sanders doesn't appear to be ready for any of that just yet. According to The Hill, Sanders released a statement Tuesday in response to criticism of his supporters' behavior in Nevada calling the charges "nonsense", adding that the party either needs to embrace "people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change, or choose to maintain its status quo structure and remain dependent on big-money campaign contributions."
With Sanders continuing to hammer Hillary within his own party for being just another status-quo figure, it is only helping Donald Trump, running largely as the candidate who is a true outsider and won't play Washington's typical political games.
"Every week, every news cycle, every tweet that goes by where the focus is not on the GOP presumptive nominee is a day lost in this race to seize the most advantageous ground to wage the general election." said Democratic strategist Chris Lehane.
As evidence that the chaos within the Democratic party is helping Trump gain ground on Hillary, RealClearPolitics shows that a once wide divergence of support between Hillary and Trump is now steadily eroding.
And perhaps the most telling sign of all, is that in a new NBC/SurveyMonkey poll for the week ending May 15, The Donald is only trailing Hillary by 3 percentage points, up 1 point from the prior week.
As Donald continues to gain ground on Hillary, there are two keys to the Trump campaign's continued success. First, can Trump convince even more independents to come to his side by the fall, and secondly, and more importantly, can Trump convince those unhappy Sanders supporters that Clinton is nothing but the status quo figure that they don't want to see in office, and that a vote for Trump would at least be a vote for an outsider who will not be afraid to shake things up.
We suspect that as the Democrats continue to turn on its own party members, Trump will enjoy a nice gain in support at least from many Sanders supporters who are pissed off that they are not being heard over the ever important "superdelegate" voices that Hillary covets so much. And of course, Trump isn't wasting any time adding fuel to that fire.
Bernie Sanders is being treated very badly by the Democrats – the system is rigged against him. Many of his disenfranchised fans are for me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2016
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