Why did Jane Sanders retweet Bernie’s video about not following his endorsement? (Getty)
Bernie Sanders’ supporters noticed an interesting tweet that Bernie’s wife, Jane Sanders, shared on Friday. Ever since Bernie endorsed Hillary Clinton, his supporters have been sharing a video interview where he said, during the primary, that his supporters may not listen to him if he ever told them who to vote for. Jane just retweeted that same video on Friday, in a tweet that had the headline “Bernie Sanders: The Movement Should Not Listen to Me.” Now his supporters are wondering if it was just a nostalgic tweet or if she was trying to send a message.
Here’s a screenshot of Jane’s retweet:
(Twitter/Jane O’Meara Sanders)
Jane retweeted a tweet from Heath Byers that had the headline: “Berne Sanders The Movement Should Not Listen to Me.” The hashtags read: #FridayFeeling, #JustAskBernie and #OurRevolution. The first question from supporters when they heard about Jane’s retweet was to wonder whether the news was legitimate. Yes, it is. She really did tweet that video. The retweet came from Jane O’Meara Sanders’ official, verified Twitter account. She tweeted it on Friday, September 23.
In the video, which was taken during a Town Hall during the primaries, Bernie was asked questions about what would happen if he didn’t win. A Bernie supporter asked: “Many of your supporters are staunchly opposed to Hillary Clinton and are considering writing you in, voting for a third party candidate, or not voting at all if you don’t win the nomination… Will you encourage your supporters to vote for Secretary Clinton?” Bernie answered:
“We’re not a movement where I can snap my fingers and say to you what you should do… You won’t listen to me, you shouldn’t, you make these decisions yourself…
He continued by saying that it was Clinton’s job to convince his voters, who do not believe in establishment politics, that she is ready to pass Medicare for all, make public college tuition free, pass a carbon tax, and approach climate change as a real crisis and not use incremental steps. She would have to convince his supporters that she was not just representing big money interests.
You can watch the video below:
The video became a rallying cry for many #BernieorBust supporters, who believed it was Bernie’s way of telling them not to vote for Clinton or listen to his future endorsements. Whether or not that is what Bernie meant, only Bernie himself can say. Thus far, he has been supporting Hillary Clinton’s candidacy as being preferable to a Donald Trump presidency. However, many of his supporters are also using the video as part of their reason for supporting third-party candidate Jill Stein. They’re saying Clinton did not convince them, and Stein is more in-line with their beliefs than Clinton. They’re encouraging other Bernie supporters to also give their vote to Stein. Others are giving Gary Johnson their vote. Still other Sanders supporters are choosing to vote for Donald Trump, to send a message to the DNC.
When Jane retweeted the video, which ends with a #BernieorBust hashtag, it started the speculation up all over again. Some people responded with tweets like the following. (Note: These replies show up as a response to Heath Byers’ tweet, which was the one Jane retweeted. Replies to Jane’s retweet will only appear as replies to the original tweet. If she had quoted the tweet instead of retweeting it, the tweets would have appeared as replies to her.)
What do you think? Was Jane sending a message about not voting for Clinton or was she just sharing that Clinton still needs to earn Sanders’ supporters votes?
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September 25, 2016 5:01 pm
Honestly, it doesn’t matter. HRC isn’t going to change and “come after” the votes of progressives. She would offend her corporate overlords by doing that. So, whether Jane was trying to say that, or say don’t listen to Bernie…we need to KEEP FIGHTING and vote for the ONLY progressive candidate in this election…Jill Stein. VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE!
Right on sister! Hope this finally convinces all the weak-kneed progressive Jill sceptics hiding out there to stop being fooled by the MSMs “lesser of 2 evils” propaganda!
Vote for the person you want. In my case (Even if it doesn’t count) I will vote for the only candidate I trust, Bernie Sanders. I don’t think Hillary knows how to win Bernie’s supporters and, if she doesn’t have a clue yet, she doesn’t deserve my vote. #DemExit #StillSanders
Common misconception among us Bernie supporters. HRC NEVER gave a shit about the progressive wing of her own party because she’s a neo-con that works for her Wall Street bosses, not we the people. She didn’t need our votes to steal the nomination and declare herself the winner of the primaries before the last 10 states even voted, and should have no trouble stealing the general without them either, I’m afraid. I figure, if my vote will only be stolen or thrown in the trash anyway, it’s going to be stolen or trashed with #PresidentSanders name on it.
#BernieOrBust #BringBernieBack #NeverHillary #NeverTrump #DemocracyNOW #RevolutiON #TakeBackThevote
I can’t believe I’m saying this but, why waste your vote? 😅 I mean, could we get Bernie elected If we wrote him in? I would be all in if that’s a viable option. Go green, Jill is Bernie on steroids within a revolutionary party. It’s probably a stronger message, as I assume the write in vote is, because you’re giving not only Hillary the finger, you’re waving it at the democratic establishment as well!
No, He’s a Democrat officially. Write In votes are not counted by law. unless the candidate is registered in each state as eligible. If we could have gotten to a contested election, there would have been a real chance Bernie could have won. But he didn’t do so. It’s Clinton or Drumpft. He is completely narcissistic, vile,racist, rabble rouser. Please do not waste a vote against him.
Correction: he is #DemExit like many of us. We have returned to being Independents. Independent as in, thinking for ourselves.
You go girl….I’m right there with you….Thanks Jane♥
You speak truth Stephanie. The Clintons and their Third Way dems have been far more responsible than even republicans, for the fact that so many progressive achievements have been rolled back the past quarter century. They have been anti progressive since the beginning of their careers…
Wow! The Rev lives. . Now that’s the spirit we need a lot more of particularly towards Jill Stein instead of pretending she doesn’t exist like so many in MSM.
Dem 20 years…. voting third party for the first time this election. Progressives have compromised away their principles for too long. The DNC leak that showed them actively attempting to sway the primary just added gas to the fire. I doubt I’ll ever vote dem again.
Clinton hiring whatshernameshultz afterward and running with a republican-esque running mate didn’t help. Her constant flip flopping and support for republican mandates has assured that I won’t vote for her. I hope no other progressives will either. She does NOT represent us.
Agree 100% The hiring Debbie Wasserman Schultz was a slap in the face to all Bernie supporters.The rest of the campaign is a slap in the face to most progressives. She didn’t want us, she won’t get us.
Me too. Can’t stomach the DNC. Third party all the way.
We only need to vote for DOWN BALLOTS ONLY since they are the ones who actually choose the President. The people choose the down ballots. Most of them are Bernie supported and have won their primaries. In those states where B can be written in, DO SO EN MASSE to prevent H and T from receiving the majority. Below is a comment I left on a previous article:
It is my understanding that the down ballots are the ones who choose the president. If there is no consensus among the newly elected down ballots, which seem to be mostly Bernie Sanders supported, THEN the decision would rest on the House. So, for example, those newly elected down ballots thst BERNIE helped to elect are NOT constitutionally bound to vote with the popular vote OR the one with the most electoral college votes. THEY CAN VOTE HOWEVER THEY WANT! It’s similar to what the Super Delegates did during the primary. They voted however they liked which is why B did not get the nomination. So, the focus would be on the down ballots, deny H and T the majority and if you’re going to organize a write-in campaign, it at least needs to be in ALL of the states where Bernie can be written in because it’s possible Stein and Johnson could have more electoral votes than Bernie since B can only be written in in 8 states. Those states where J or B can be voted for, I guess needs to ONLY vote for the down ballots. Again, these are the people whom Bernie helped to elect. Hopefully, they’ll return the favor!!
I will not vote for any Democrat who signed on to support HRC a year before the primary. I will not vote for any Democrat who did not express OUTRAGE at the DNC’s actions… guess when you add it up, I won’t be voting for Democrats.
Here in Colorado-Bennett, DeGette, Hickenlooper, Perlmuter, Pollis, were all super delegates who gave their votes to Clinton despite Sanders winning the state.
I’ll likely be voting for literally *anybody* but those folks. Arn Menconi of Green for senate will have my vote for sure.
Where do you get your – “down ballot” candidates elect the President -information?
Where in the world did you get the idea that it is the down ballots that vote for the president? That is completely false information. If you don’t vote for presidential candidate then it means that you have not voted for a presidential candidate and no one gets your vote for POTUS. Chose a candidate and vote for them. Jill Stein is the most viable option at the moment as she is on the ballot in 48 states. And it is not the same as the super delegates, completely different. Please do some research on how the elections work. And please no one pay attention to what Pamela is saying because it’s all wrong. Bernie can only be written in, in the state of Vermont. A candidate has to register as a write in candidate in order for that write in vote to be valid. So writing in Bernies name on your ballot will only get it tossed out and you lose a vote because Bernie has not registered to be a write in candidate in any state.OMG…..smh
I think Jane did what I referred to as ‘the wife thing’ when I showed it to my husband. He totally got the reference. If the husband’s job has his hands tied about what he can say about a certain topic, the wife pokes the bear instead. It’s an innate form of marital politics and team work… It doesn’t even have to be discussed between the couple… It just happens. Husbands do it for wives too, but I call it the wife thing, because, I’m a wife. It’s also of interest to note, that a month ago, Real Clear Politics had Hillary with a likely 272 electoral votes, and now it’s down to 198 as more states are becoming toss ups. Pennsylvania, where she had a double digit lead a month ago, has a new poll with her up only by 2 points, well withing the margin of error, and Illinois which was solid blue Dem, has been downgraded to merely leaning Clinton. The DNC made a BIG mistake coronating Hillary Clinton. #BerneBeatsTrump and we know there have been talks within the establishment of replacing her, it’s high time someone with power either convinces her to drop out or finds away to disqualify her for the shady stuff she’s done. If they leave her as the nominee, their whole house of cards will likely crumbling down.
#StillSanders #BringBackBernie #BringBernieBack
I will be voting 3rd party. I will not vote for corruption and fraud. Besides, I am in the lawsuit against the DNC for election fraud so it would be a conflict of interest to vote for her. #BernieorBust
I’m in the lawsuit too… hadn’t thought of that as an excuse. Thanks for that…Perfect:-)
Glad it helps :)
Me too!
Well of course Jane Sanders was not trying to tell people they should not vote for Clinton. She was reminding us we should make that decision for ourselves.
I will not vote for Killary. I will write in the only candidate that I truly want for president: Bernie Sanders. Not Jill. #StillSanders
Unless you live in Vermont, your vote will be null and Void. Vermont is the only state where Bernie is actually allowed as a write in. But do what you want to.
I’m not going to just “throw” my One vote away like that, Jill Stein is on my ballot, and she will get my vote. She is Bernie on steroids! Therefore a Much better “fit” than throwing away my vote, or voting for one of the Evils! I am against TPP, and as at last check, approx 85% of Bernie Supporters are now voting for Jill Stein! That’s not even counting the rest of the millennial who are choosing to register as Green Party.
The poll shown by the debate Commission who is privately owned by the democrats and republicans, is rigged, and reporting False readings of poll results. They claim Jill Stein is at only 2-4 %..if you go to Any Other Poll out there, you will see the Poll results are much higher!
Other than Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein is the Only other Person who can and will bring Positive Change to Our Country and to Us…the citizens of the United States of America! Since Bernie is no longer an option, it is our Patriotic Duty, and Moral Obligation to KEEP Both Hillary and Trump OUT of the Whitehouse, both are Equally evil in their own way…there is No “lesser Evil”. Therefore this year, 2016, we Must vote with our Conscience. Vote #JillStein2016 #ItsInOurHands
Weather Bernie Sanders’ Supporters vote for any other Candidates, that their business. All I known we will surely vote for her because she is qualified for the position.
If Clinton is not elected and Trump is, that will be Sanders defining moment in history.
The most successful element of his campaign was the denigration and vilification of Clinton and the Democratic Party.
How exactly did he denigrate and vilify her. She lied like a rug on Bernie during the debates. He was nothing more than a gentleman to her, and simps still tried to use the gender card and call him sexist. Noting he said about her was a lie, I repeat nothing he said about her was a lie. The Democratic Party screwed themselves. Guess you haven’t read any of the DNC leaks emails have you.
Reaching for straws when there aren’t any? Vote for your candidate and leave Bernie out of it. He ran a damn good race and enlightened, educated, and motivated a generation + she can’t do that, and that’s her fault. We can read, research, and comprehend, and because we can we do, and because we do and or did some of us know that Hillary is NOT the best candidate for President Bernie was, hence the reason they did everything they could to take him down.
They didn’t calculate his supporters in the equation, they can’t take us down, we are the present and the future, get used too it.
Actually, they did that to themselves.
If you mean he told the truth… yes he did. He talked about where her money comes from (Wall Street, corporate America)… he talked about her votes…he didn’t make these things up. If Hillary Clinton loses to Donald Trump it will not be a surprise. The polls, during the primaries showed Bernie Sanders was a much stronger candidate (up 10%+) to beat Mr. T. It is not our fault (Bernie supporters). Look at results in key states now… to me they prove the primaries were rigged…where is all that support in in the states she allegedly won? The power of the DNC should be enough for her to win. Many of us only registered as Dems to vote for Bernie. Many of us are #DemExit after the primary fiasco.
Hey Berns when you vote for a independent… Then you might as well vote for Trump! The progressive movement is pretty much dead! So enjoy President Trump!
We will. I neverHillary!!!
Everything we hate and fear about Trump, HRC has already done. Xenophobia, homophobia, sexism, racism, warmongering, you name it. But hey, why vote for the candidate who *says* he will kill innocent people when we can vote for the candidate who already *has* killed innocent people, amirite?
This! Hillary is a proven war criminal for pushing the unauthorized war with Libya. Now look where we are. Now we can say no more!
yes you are
I had not seen this video before…thank you so much. It helps put the madness in perspective. I knew I would never vote for Hillary even before Bernie got in the race. This reminded me of how and why Bernie won my vote.
On topof that here’s a bit of more information – couldn’t PAY ME to attend on of her “staged” talks after the primaries were RIGGED and NOW the DNC DEFENCE LAWYERS are using the argument that SURE THEY WERE RIGGED but the “tinfoil hat wearers” WARNED YOU – so the FRAUD AND CONGAME was “ACCEPTABLE” …Kinda like saying sure he raped her but she was passed out and therefore “agreed” to be raped.
The DNC betrayed democratic voters with massive and verifiable elections fraud and nationwide voter suppression. They purged any registered democrat they felt they couldn’t control (anyone too new, too young or too brown to be manipulated). Further, they used superdelegates to nullify the votes of those dems who they “allowed” to vote who did not vote the way they wanted us to (which is why they have superdelegates).
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The DNC AND the Clinton campaign colluded to destroy a great man running an inspirational clean money campaign … by any means necessary. I have come to believe they would kill him if they thought they could get away with it without succumbing themselves to friendly fire. They have failed us miserably us political party and are led by morally bankrupt human beings. I have never voted for ANYONE who wasn’t a democrat in my entire adult life (I’m 65). The DNC was slimy, disgusting and perverted every decent thing in the democratic party and made every democrat politician now suspect. People who have worked their whole lives for democratic principles (when we used to have them) now have to convince voters that they are not contaminated with clinton/wasserman swill.
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Why our democrat politicians who retain any moral compass under wasserman’s regime aren’t burning clinton in effigy… I cannot understand. What do they stand for if they don’t stand for the people who elected them? I suspect I know. Dump this corrupt awful candidate while we still can retain the Oval Office. Sanders might not be willing to kowtow to corporations, foreign governments and the ultra rich … but at least he would crush to dust the hopes of every racist xenophobe and restore some dignity, credibility and decency to the DNC.
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We told the DNC over a year ago that clinton was not acceptable. We told them why. We gave them evidence of her corruption and neolib/neocon agenda and her ownership by foreign governments. They completely ignored us and trotted out this terrible candidate with all the bunting and balloons they could muster. They bribed, blackmailed, coerced and threatened our politicians. But they got caught.
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We Americans might be a bit slow to get it sometimes and maybe a little lazy …. but we do not like being played. Neolib and Neocon corporatists are the walking dead ready to infect every part of this country, our lives and our future. You are about to get staked in the head in November because there is apparently no cure for you sickness.
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So no … we won’t be voting for a racist baby man OR a sociopathic congenital liar. We don’t want a president owned by corporations and foreign governments. So lead, follow or get off the dance floor.
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But, thanks for reminding us Jane. We know what clinton and the DNC are trying to do to you and bernie and we aren’t buying it. We will be voting our conscience and will not negotiate with criminals attempting to extort us.
you are a smart woman, kathleen! beautifully said!
Your protest votes could easily give Trump the US Presidency. I know hat he will take good care of you. God Bless Your Hearts!
If she loses it will be because you loyal democrats didn’t get out and work your behinds off. Independents make up over 40% of registered voters. The DNC didn’t care about us now, we don’t care about it.
Good!! Anyone but Hillary in the Oval!
I am so tired of the fear mongering, A vote for Hillary is a vote for Soros!!
voting Green or Berniecrats not voting for ANY establishment Dems!!
I would honestly at this point rather see everyone who loves Bernie come out and just write him in. Don’t split the vote and nominate Jill, just consolidate your efforts and write in the guy who got you here. I didn’t want to tarnish Bernie’s name before by giving the Dems an opportunity to blame a Hillary loss on him, but I do not care at this point. He is my guy, and if the DNC can twist the rules and if the media can ignore the issues, then I can write in Bernie. We all should.
Except that in most states, a write-in candidate must be approved for the write-in vote to be accepted, and Bernie’s not “approved”. So we have to vote our consciences: Jill! Unless the Dems somehow come to their senses and insist that Hillary resign the nomination, in which case, Bernie automatically becomes the Dem nominee!
I would love to have Bernie’s candidacy restored. I trust him, but I would bet my last dollar that HRC will not resign or be forced to give up. If you can stomach Drumpft, vote 3rd party.
Voting third party does Not mean Trump will win! Are you kidding me! Are you aware of just how many Republican Politicians (Senators etc) have been publicly saying they Don’t even endorse Trump?? I have also been working for the green party on my own time in my own community, you have No idea just how Many republican voters as well as democrat voters and Independent Voters Do Not want Either Clinton or Trump….and still plan to stay registered as they are, but Vote Jill Stein? I didn’t change my registration…I am voting Stein! The ONLY reason I don’t change it yet, is because everything about the system is so Democratic and Republican Owned…I still want my “leverage” in 2020…just in case. But.those Polls that the “Debate Commission” uses and shows us…is So rigged…and as Big a Lie as Any word that comes out of either Hillary or Trumps mouths!
If you are intelligent enough to do your own research, and check Any other Poll out there…you see the Major differences!!
Also, at last count that I saw..approx 85% of Bernie Supporters are now voting for Jill Stein. I myself have spoken to 135 dems and reps. Voters just this past week, who all agree their votes Need to go to Jill Stein! That’s just Me…in. One week….and I have been doing this for weeks! I get pretty much the same results every week!
That’s not counting the ones I reach out to through social media! And there are hundreds of us doing this!
Come Voting day….you just may be SHOCKED!
Simple Kindergarten math
One VOTE
JILL STEIN=1
CLINTON=0
TRUMP=0
JOHNSON=0
Who you vote for…that’s where it stays!
And we are getting away Just as Many Trump voters as we are Clinton Voters!
Jane was saying Hilliary has to step up and reach out to bernie’s supporters. Jane fears Trump will win if Hilliary doesn’t. TROUBLE is Busters have closed their minds and probably won’t listen to hill anyway. Trouble then becomes we will have Trump. TROUBLE with that is we can work with Democrats. We can’t work with Republicans. Bernie and Jane know that, which is why they’re supporting Hilliary.
Will only vote for Bernie, nobody else. Too much is at stake in this election to play games. We need Bernie to put us back on track. He is right, She needs to earn our votes, and for me she hasn’t even come close. Get your Presidential swag together Bernie. We want you for our president. Jill Stein would make a great Vice President.
I do not understand how anybody that was for Bernie Sanders could vote for Hillary Clinton!!! Actually, I do not understand how anyone could vote for Hillary Clinton, unless they want to live in the New World Order, in Severe Poverty, with no rights and no possessions, because that is where Hillary plans on putting the 99.99% of us!!! IF Hillary gets in, and that is a big IF, she will disarm the United States as fast as she can, finish implementing the New World Order as fast as she can, and we will be living in the North American Union, consisting of Canada, United States and Mexico, with no borders and not much of anything, AND the United States’ Constitution will be long gone, after the New World Order takes EVERYTHING from the 99.99% of us, including property, houses, businesses, bank accounts–our rights will be totally gone, with no possessions, and we will be in SEVERE POVERTY!!!
Bernie Sanders was forced into endorsing Hillary Clinton, and the truth needs to come out right now!!!
It’s their way of saying don’t vote for Hill vote for Jill.
Hay BERNIE 10 MILLION WAS YOUR BUY OUT
I FELT SO BAD 4 YOUR PEOPLE ! U DID WINN ! DID DIDN’T U ? ? THAT’S WHAT I UNDERSTOOD, WILL U SET THE RECORD STRIGHT? OBAMA AND HILLARY SPLIT PAYING U AN YOUR OK WITH THAT WOWT.WOW AFTER WHAT U TOLD EVERONE U BECOME ONEE ONE ! OH WELL IT WOULD TAKEN AMAN WITH FIGHT OK ,VOTE TRUMP DONALD HAS FIGHT !
I understand protest votes, but usually, they only make sense when you think your preferred candidate is going to win. In swing states please, I’m begging you, vote for the candidate you prefer among those who have a chance. I’m blaming you otherwise.
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Sanders supporters who vote Trump to “send a message” are complete ass hats who believe the world is breathlessly tracking their every move. It’s not Insta, millenial idiots! Nobody’s paying any attention to your sorry asses.