Sanders warns his supporters against choosing a third party
Washington Post ^ | July 26, 2016 | David Weigel
Posted on 7/26/2016, 12:33:47 PM by McGruff
Sen. Bernie Sanders rebuffed calls from the Green Party — and a loud minority of his delegates and supporters here — to abandon the Democratic Party and build a third force outside it.
The Green Party, which has never again reached the heights of its 2000 performance under Ralph Nader, has held a series of Philadelphia events since the weekend aimed at persuading Sanders voters to make a "DemExit." Jill Stein, the party's likely nominee, has spoken even as rainstorms shut down meetings, repeatedly calling on Sanders to quit the Democrats and talk to her; Cornel West, a Sanders supporter who was one of his five appointees to the party's platform drafting committee, has appeared at Stein events and canceled at least one Democratic event around the convention.
Sanders, meanwhile, has declined to meet with the Greens and urged his supporters to stay and change the Democratic Party.
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