 So as many of you know tomorrow is a very important day six more states will be voting this includes Michigan Which is crucial Washington State Mississippi, but regardless of what happens tomorrow? Bernie Sanders will continue on in this primary He has enough resources funds and grassroots organizers to stay in all the way until the convention And we are going to be fighting to make sure that Joe Biden is not the nominee because in the event He wins Donald Trump is going to get a second term That is almost a guarantee because Joe Biden is such a weak candidate However, since we are in this for the long haul since Bernie isn't going anywhere I don't believe that we kind of just sit back and tell ourselves that we did everything right It's really important that we be introspective and we try to figure out as it happens What's going wrong for us? What's going right for us and how we can adjust our strategy going forward and one thing that I must say is that Bernie Sanders? He has Phenomenal policies he is someone who I agree with on almost everything not every single policy, but almost everything and in terms of just Policy itself. We haven't had a candidate this left wing in American history That's been this close to actually becoming the Democratic Party nominee. So he's great when it comes to policy However, when it comes to strategy, that's where we we've really got to take a hard look in the mirror and understand What we can do differently and when it comes to Bernie Sanders He has got to really make a decision here either he is going to continue to play nice with the Democratic Party establishment and specifically Joe Biden and Lose or he's actually going to toughen up and go at them really hard and give them hell and Win because going forward. I can't see a path To victory for us if we continue carrying about the same way that we've been carrying on throughout the course of this primary And I'll give you a couple of examples. So Bernie Sanders Was talking to basically everyone on the Sunday shows, which is great. You've got to promote your agenda You've got a you know contrast differences between yourself and Joe Biden, but he's too nice to Joe Biden Here's an example, you know, if you're talking about taking on Trump and defeating Trump and Joe Understands and I understand that we have got to do everything possible to defeat Trump and I'll support Joe If he wins he'll support me if I win But going into states like Michigan going into Pennsylvania going into Wisconsin key battleground states These are all states that have been devastated by these terrible trade agreements and I fear very much You know if Joe is the candidate believe me Trump will and has already talked about Joe's record on trade I believe that we are the strongest campaign to defeat Donald Trump a because we have a grassroots movement that is Unparalleled be because we have a voting record that speaks to the needs of working families I believe that the United States has got to join every other major country on earth Guarantee health care to all people as a human right Help lead the effort on that help leave the effort to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour Help leave the effort to demand that at a time of massive income and wealth inequality The rich and the billionaire class stop paying their fair share of taxes Senator are you saying that Joe Biden will lose Michigan and other industrial Midwest states to President Trump if he's the nominee No, I'm not saying that and I've been asked that a million times that I believe Joe can beat Trump and if Joe is the candidate I'll do everything I can to make sure that he does but I think just looking at the facts If you're going into the industrial base of the United States of America the hot land of America And you voted for agreements that have devastated communities like Flint Detroit It it's gonna hard to make the case when Trump has made trade such an important part of his agenda now Trump lies all of the time I mean he is a pathological liars running a corrupt administration, but it will be hard I believe not to say that he can't do it, but it will be hard for Joe to defend the record On trade when it has had such a negative impact on the Midwest. I love you to death Bernie I think you're a fantastic person, but you're being too nice You're being too nice and you can hear it in his voice like when he talks about Joe Biden He always has to qualify every statement with some compliment about Joe Biden. Oh, he's my friend He's a nice person and then when he actually gets to the criticism of Joe Biden You can tell that he's walking on eggshells like he's tiptoeing around the criticism instead of just directly saying it When that's not effective like this is a fight for our lives Literally and we are counting on you Bernie To win this so if you are going to be nice to Joe Biden like that It's just you're not helping any of us. So he said look I believe Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump and if Joe's the candidate I'll do everything I can to make sure that he does Except Joe Biden cannot beat Donald Trump if he's the nominee Donald Trump is going to easily beat him He's already, you know previewing some of these general election election attacks on Joe Biden And they're gonna be effective. There's they're going to resonate and here's the thing Hillary Clinton was a weak candidate. Joe Biden is exponentially weaker than Hillary Clinton Exponentially more vulnerable less charismatic Than Hillary Clinton. So everything that we thought about Hillary Clinton We all kind of thought well There's nobody that the Democratic Party can run that would be worse than Hillary Clinton Actually, it's Joe Biden because there's nothing that will excite voters You can't really even cite a single policy that he supports at least with Hillary Clinton There was that excitement about the fact that you know, she'd be the first woman president But with Joe Biden, there's zero excitement So you've got to sound the alarm Bernie You've got to make it very clear for people who are watching that if we nominate Joe Biden We're handing Donald Trump the presidency for another four years now part of what I I think is happening Is that Bernie Sanders is genuinely worried that the Democratic Party is going to blame him for? President Trump's electoral victory right they did this in 2016 and he doesn't want that to happen again except What's going to happen is a foregone conclusion. You will be blamed. We will be blamed What's going to happen is the Democratic Party if they nominate Joe Biden they're going to lose and blame the left and then you know in 2024 2028 they're going to expect to Win with the same strategy and say how much you know, we've got to have a moderate and that's important We can't run too far to the left So they're not going to learn anything and they're not going to welcome you with open arms if you play You know their game and you hold hands and sing kumbaya with them That's just never going to happen So you can't play their game now I want to play another clip for you where I think Bernie Sanders has got a course correct here because what he says in his Criticism of Joe Biden It's too soft and he just he struggles to just come out and be mean and I get that He's a really nice person, but this is an election and Joe Biden is a disaster He is a disaster. So listen to what Bernie Sanders says in his criticism of Joe Biden Senator since Super Tuesday, you've been going after Joe Biden pretty hard on a number of issues. Take a look One of us in this race Led the opposition to the war in Iraq One of us led the opposition to disastrous trade agreements one of us has spent his entire life fighting against cuts in Social Security Senator now that this is a two-man race and you're gonna have a two-man debate next Sunday How hard do you go after Joe Biden without carving each other up and helping Donald Trump win reelection? Well, Chris, that's that's the right question Joe Biden is a friend of mine Joe Biden is a decent guy where Joe has said is if I win the nomination He'll be there for me when I have said if he wins the nomination I'll be there for him because we both recognize that we have a president who is a pathological liar And I say that without any joy in my heart Somebody who's running a corrupt administration Somebody apparently who has never read the Constitution of the United States and thinks he's above the law So Biden and I no matter who wins this thing will be together in defeating Trump But now that it is a two-way race It is important for the voters of this country to ask themselves two questions number one Which candidate is stronger in terms of being able to defeat Trump and number two what are the differences in a record Joe has been in Washington for a long time as have I and My point is when people see the records Joe voted for the war Iraq I opposed the war Iraq Joe voted for the Wall Street bailout I vigorously opposed the Wall Street bailout when you go to the Midwest we're in Michigan right now You go to Wisconsin you go to Pennsylvania people want to know about your views on trade Because disastrous trade agreements like NAFTA and PNTR with China cost this country over four million good paying jobs Decimated communities here in Michigan said I helped lead the opposition to those trade agreements Joe voted for those You have to stop saying that Joe Biden is your friend whenever Joe Biden criticizes you He's very smug. He's very arrogant and it's effective. He never says, you know what Bernie Sanders is my friend But here's X Y and Z reasons why you should vote for me over him. He never says that and Then you know, we've heard this same song and dance from Bernie Sanders over and over again He prefaces his criticism of Joe Biden by saying look I really like Joe Biden He's such a nice person, but you know when it comes to the Iraq war and his trade deals He'd be a disaster Except first and foremost you can't be nice to Joe Biden like that You've got to hit him and let people know what's at stake here We are going to lose the Trump if he's the nominee and second of all This is a very different race and what I want Bernie Sanders to acknowledge is that he's got to change up the strategy because he's One on the policy and when I say he's one on the policy I mean, he's convinced Democratic Party primary voters that his ideas are the best ideas I mean look at some of these exit polls and just take a look at this article from common dreams It says in every Super Tuesday state with exit polls majority of Democratic voters support eliminating private insurance And when you look at these exit polls here, even states where Joe Biden Demolished Bernie Sanders Medicare for all still won with large margins. It's still got at least 50% So we've won on the policy. We've won on the policy So now what people are clearly voting based on is who they think can beat Donald Trump So by you simply drawing policy differences between you and Joe Biden, that's not enough You have to connect that connect it to his weakness in a general election Because the entire time the Democratic Party establishment and media apparatus to be fair has made this a race about electability and Bernie Sanders started to really get the messaging right there, but never was sharp enough He has to make it very clear that this is about electability if you want to play by electability fine We just ran Hillary Clinton a moderate and lost moderates lose all the time Look at a John Kerry in 2004 Hillary Clinton in 2016 Do you want to roll the dice again? It is progressives who win Barack Obama won by Campaigning as a strong progressive now you can argue that he didn't live up to those progressive ideals but regardless he ran a progressive campaign and Won so if you want to excite the base you have to be progressive and Joe Biden isn't offering voters anything and They're going to stay home because they don't really perceive there to be any real difference that's meaningful between Joe Biden and Donald Trump you've got to stress this and For Bernie Sanders to still say the same thing that he said a couple of months ago It's not going to work now going forward Bernie has to change that and here's what I really want to stress Bernie has got to understand that he has to play hardball with the establishment Nothing that he can ever There's nothing he can say or do that's going to win them over and get them To appreciate his contribution to electoral politics There's no way that he can win them over you have to defeat them You have to crush them because that's what they're trying to do to you Bernie Sanders That's what they're trying to do to you and they're being successful because they have a lot of institutional advantages so you've got to take back the messaging and part of the reason why I want Bernie Sanders to harden up is because Anything that he grants any concession he makes to the establishment They're never going to make that same concession to him So just you know a week ago before Super Tuesday when it seemed very clear that Bernie Sanders You know if he didn't win an outright majority He was the front-runner to get a plurality of Pledge delegates going into the convention Well, what did Joe Biden say about that as this headline from Vox points out Biden says he'll contest the Democratic nomination if no one gets a majority of delegates if Sanders leads in delegates But doesn't have a majority Biden said he'll fight for the nomination now contrast that with this headline from Newsweek where Bernie Sanders says He'll drop out if Biden gets a plurality coming into the Democratic convention Now I'm not saying that Bernie Sanders plays dirty to the extent that he is going to try to convince Super delegates To steal the nomination away from Biden Biden if he gets more votes Because I think that's just that's just undemocratic What I want to point to here is the problem that Bernie Sanders has in giving up his leverage, right? You have so much leverage right now You have so much leverage and you're giving it up when you don't have to like what you can do Even if it is going to lead to nothing you can say I'm not going anywhere I will contest this convention unless we have a Democratic nominee who believes in Medicare for all because in every single state Medicare for all won. So if I'm not at the top of the ticket, we need someone who supports Medicare for all So I'm not dropping out unless Joe Biden unequivocally is on tape saying I will fight for Medicare for all and introduce a bill on Day one now, we don't have to believe him We don't have to believe that he's going to fight for it at all because I don't think that he will Healthstock shot up after Super Tuesday when he was victorious but what you have to do is Understand the immense amount of leverage that you have and use it to your advantage like part of the reason why the Republican establishment in 2016 couldn't fuck over Donald Trump was because Donald Trump was willing to play hardball I mean think about this when there was talk of a contested convention to try to steal the nomination away from Donald Trump What did Donald Trump do back in 2016 or 2015 more specifically? He said I'm gonna run third party. I'm gonna run third party, right? That's what you have to do and even if you don't believe that Don't give away your leverage and I want to say this to Voters as well because everyone is so quick to say, you know what sure. I'll support Joe Biden. I hate him Here's all the criticisms, but I'll support him if he's the nominee even if that's true You can't give away your leverage. You have to make the Democratic Party establishment fearful You have to make them realize that if they don't vote For the person who's the strongest against Donald Trump, they're going to lose they can't just you know Expect to keep doing the same thing and getting our support Like you've got to let them know that your power will be exercised in a way that isn't going to help them But I see so many people like so willing to fall in line and say well, of course, you know I'm saying all this about Biden now, but I'll vote for him Don't say that yet Even if you're going to do that and the same's true for Bernie Sanders like here's a problem with electoral politics and why the left loses since so much is at stake, you know, and I think that a lot of the left rightfully believes in harm reduction we Want to make sure that we Make it clear we're compassionate like we're not gonna do anything that hurts people more so than they're already being hurt But at the same time You need leverage you have to use the power that you have the minimal amount of power that you have in electoral politics to make it Very clear that the establishment cannot continue to steamroll you and you're not just gonna get up and fall in line and support them Like even if you plan on voting for Joe Biden if he's the nominee don't say that right now Don't say that right now. You're in a primary and the Democratic Party is going to put up someone that overall is gonna lose to Donald Trump I mean it look all of us who follow politics It doesn't matter what we do what matters is what the average person the disaffected non-voter does and if they See that it's between Joe Biden and Donald Trump and they don't really think there's a true difference between these two people They don't believe their lives are going to change and it's not worth standing in line for five to six hours They're just gonna stay home, right and nothing you say or do will be able to convince them voter apathy is a real problem It's a real problem that we have to deal with so what I want people to understand on the left is that we have leverage We just have to know how to use it and stop giving it away and play hardball Stop trying to get the Democratic Party to like us stop trying to court them We need to be in a position to where they're courting us They're trying to win us over and it's not the other way around and you know the media plays us like fiddle sometimes I've got to admit that I mean with this whole Elizabeth Warren thing And you know the snake emojis the way that they set this up was that we are the ones who are Supposed to be courting Elizabeth Warren for an endorsement when think about this This is someone who wants to run for president in 2024. She's a multi-millionaire white woman She's gonna be perfectly fine But we're supposed to be really nice right now to Elizabeth Warren and we're supposed to court her and Send her positive messages in this time of grieving We are the ones who have leverage without us the Democratic Party can never win another election again Now if you don't want to play hardball like that if you don't want to be dirty, that's fine But understand if you give away your leverage then the Democratic Party is Essentially going to realize they can crush you and it's not gonna hurt their chances electorally speaking, right? You're telling them. You know what? It's okay. If you rig it It's okay. If you crush me at the end of the day, I'm gonna fall in line like a good little soldier and support the Democratic nominee Regardless of who it is I mean if you put up a clone of Donald Trump with a d next to his name I'll support that individual because I believe that you know harm reduction is the best strategy And you may be right about that But there's a time and place For all of that if you are gonna fall in line, there's a time and place for that now is not the time now Is the time to absolutely be disruptive and loud and make it very clear that the Democratic Party establishment doesn't control you You are a free agent and you're gonna make a decision That's best for you and voting for Joe Biden is not an option and you will not vote for Joe Biden Even if you are say you won't right now Do you understand what I'm what I'm talking about like we just we have to acknowledge that if we're gonna really focus on Electoral politics and be hyper focused on it like we have been on the left Then we can't play nice with the Democratic Party establishment and this you know going back to Bernie Sanders This is true for him as well You have to make it very clear that you're gonna play hardball with them and they're gonna hate you But that's fine because they're never gonna love you It doesn't matter what you say or do you will never win them over? They will always hate you the media will always hate Bernie Sanders and they'll use him and you know a Few years to their advantage for ratings and whatnot But they're never going to love him because capital at the end of the day will always do what's best for capital It's not gonna roll over and die. You can't be nice enough to the capitalists and win them over You've got to fight as hard as you possibly can and even if we fight really hard It still might not be enough But know that we did it by being as fierce and ferocious and relentless as we possibly can be and we didn't Give them permission to fuck us over essentially we didn't give up our leverage when it was too early So this is just you know to kind of summarize this and wrap this entire message in a bow Bernie really as much as I love him We've got to show him tough love and let him know Playing nice with Joe Biden is unacceptable at this point in time if you want to win you can't be nice You can't say Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump. Maybe Bernie believes that but he's not gonna beat Donald Trump, right? And you've got to make it very clear what's at stake if voters care about electability You have to make it clear that Joe Biden is un-electable. He's un-electable use whatever you can The hunter Biden Controversy and that conflict of interest Joe Biden's cognitive decline because these are things that aren't just going to go away If we don't talk about them, right? There are some things that you can't touch that the Democratic Party establishment will screech at the top of their lungs If you talk about but guess what Trump's gonna talk about it and that's regardless if we talk about it or not Like if we don't say it it's not like Donald Trump will just say oh well since Democrats didn't talk about hunter Biden scandal I can't talk about that. They're gonna talk about it now I get that Bernie doesn't want to be blamed for basically giving this attack to Republicans as he was blamed for attacks against Hillary Clinton with Corruption, but you've got to understand the Republican Party will do whatever they can to win They are ruthless and if we just adopt a fraction of their ruthlessness our odds will improve drastically so all that I'm saying is We can't be nice nice guys finish last Bernie and we've got to play hardball with the establishment and we've got to Absolutely give them hell be loud be disruptive Because if we don't we just can't win. That's our only chance is being Fighters and not backing down not giving away our leverage if we have a shot That's our only shot is being tough and I really hope that going forward Bernie Sanders acknowledges the importance of this and you know, he tries to Step out of his comfort zone and actually be really fierce in his criticisms of Joe Biden because Reiterating time and again that he's your friend is not convincing voters You know, you're making the case for him by saying why you disagree with Biden on policy But he's such a nice guy. You're not helping yourself. You've got to be tough if we want a chance