Bernie is watching from the sidelines now, that may have played a contributing role
Nah. It was not an issue whatsoever. The issue was name recognition for Clinton, nostalgia for Bill and the 90s, and the stupidity of blacks who would never vote for a white man and who see the Clintons as something they never have been. The blacks only listen to their churches and sham camoonity leaders and so on. They handed her all of the southern states which gave her a large lead in delegates and are directly responsible for what happened.
Another reason is that Bernie was offering 15 dollars an hour for those who worked 40 hours, true healthcare and tuition free college. These things actually destroy the blacks because blacks have made their entire existence by playing victims and blaming everyone else for their problems. Bernie would have effectively made ALL of their arguments invalid. Their entire power structure-leaders among them-capitalize off of victim status and would no longer have any power as a result and would have crumbled and been obliterated. They destroy EVERYTHING including themselves so just a few of them can be elevated and the cycle continues. They are probably the dumbest people of the entire American electorate.
Now if the parties were to split to four parties-2 on democratic side, 2 on the republican, we would not have the problem of minorities deciding for the rest of the country who the presidential candidate should be. Bernie won the white vote, young vote, working class vote. He lost the Minority vote by HUGE numbers and the oldest of the old people vote. Those two minorities were enough to decide that you were going to get Hilary Clinton.
Other scenarios that could happen-Bernie wins the rest of the states-minorities are done voting now-and stops Clinton from clinching (which is mathematically possible) and the race goes to convention. By then an indictment could have happened-of course she will not acknowledge it (she is that sick in the head with a lust for power), but it will damage her enough for Bernie to be the nominee.
The above is not likely but possible.