{"id":11778,"date":"2016-07-28T17:33:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T00:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11778"},"modified":"2016-07-28T17:52:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T00:52:42","slug":"conservatives-heart-obama-at-dnc-plus-fierce-sanders-supporter-makes-the-case-for-clinton-bradcast-7282016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11778","title":{"rendered":"‘Conservatives’ Heart Obama at DNC; PLUS: Fierce Sanders Supporter Makes the Case for Clinton: ‘BradCast’ 7\/28\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a> [audio link posted below<\/em>], our coverage of the Democratic National Convention continues; a fascinating conversation with a longtime Sanders supporter who explains his gut-wrenching decision to vote for Clinton this November; and pundits on the Right continue to melt down as the two major party conventions illustrate stark differences in world views between Democrats and Republicans.<\/p>\n

First up, Donald Trump does not<\/i> want you to watch the proceedings in Philadelphia, as he told supporters in a fund raising email today. Wednesday night’s blockbuster DNC speeches from President Obama and Vice President Biden to the one from Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine to a particularly stinging Trump critique from self-made billionaire and former Republican-turned-Independent NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, make the case for why Trump would be delighted<\/i> if you didn’t notice what was going on in Philly.<\/p>\n

But it’s not all unity and flowers at the DNC, as some Sanders supporters and anti-war advocates continue to protest, and as polls between Clinton and Trump remain very tight for now.<\/p>\n

Then, we’re joined by Black Lives Matter advocate and fierce Bernie Sanders supporter Shaun King<\/strong> — former Daily Kos blogger<\/a> turned NY Daily News<\/i> journalist<\/a> — to discuss his column this week<\/a> describing the difficult choice he’s made to support Bernie Sanders by supporting Hillary Clinton. <\/p>\n

He explains, in detail, that while he’s “disgusted that the Democratic establishment clearly did everything in its power to make sure Bernie didn’t win,” he has determined that Trump represents a “dangerous threat” to the nation that must be stopped with “a necessary vote” for Clinton this fall.<\/p>\n

“Donald Trump has out-maneuvered and out-thought seventeen other candidates in the Republican primaries, and I think he’s doing it now in this presidential race,” King warns. “I think it’s going to be a dog-fight to the very end. There’s a distinct likelihood he could win. And anybody who says otherwise doesn’t really have their finger on what people are thinking right now.”<\/p>\n

I think it’s important that you, particularly Sanders supporters, listen to the conversation, hear out the reasons for his decision — which he has clearly struggled with — and then decide for yourself what to make of it. So, I don’t want to quote too much from our conversation today. I will note, however, that he tells me: “I trust Bernie as a person and as a politician. He’s maybe the only politician I would say that about. I felt like if he could swallow not only a sense of pride but compromise on some of the things that matter most to him — be it disagreements he’s had with the Clinton campaign — then if he could do that then I could do it.”<\/p>\n

I also get King’s thoughts on why he has long supported (and still supports) Sanders; on the belief of Bernie partisans that the primary was “stolen” by fraud; about the option for voting “third party”; on the idea that only after a Trump win, as some suggest, will the Democratic Party finally learn its lesson; and why it is that some folks at his former journalistic home Daily Kos (one of the places where The BradCast<\/i> is posted every day<\/a>) seem to absolutely freak out whenever I report on polling that suggests Clinton may have a difficult time defeating Trump. (Or, frankly, when I report on anything<\/i> that they perceive<\/i> as being critical, somehow, of the Democratic nominee. That, even as Sanders supporters elsewhere have been accusing me for months of being a “HillBot”. Sigh. As much as I love democracy, sometimes I really hate elections.)<\/p>\n

Finally, Bill O’Reilly seems to be melting down, again, as he plays the victim card on behalf of himself and Fox ‘News’, again, following his recent comments about slavery. All of that and more on today’s show…<\/p>\n

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