I always suspected that Sanders was selected, possibly even by the Clintons themselves, to run as a foil against Hillary. She couldn’t go through the primaries completely unopposed. There would be no debates and no air time. But they needed someone so far left that it made even Hillary look more centrist. It just got out of hand that Sanders thought he had a serious run at the nomination.
Hillary had the debates and nomination process rigged in her favor and she barely beat an octogenarian socialist for the nomination.
If she played fair - she wouldn’t have been nominated.
She was a bad candidate and even women voters didn’t warm up to her.
You don’t have to read her ghost-written memoirs to understand her brand of politics has no audience in a good part of the country.
He connected with know-nothing snowflakes. Hillary's camp probably didn't see that coming so it became necessary to derail his campaign. Then they got caught rigging it because her accomplices are morons. DWS anyone?
There was no way Americans would latch on to a commie/socialist like sanders.
His role was to justify a center/left position for clinton to attract independents.
Unfortunately for clinton and the DNC they had no idea the extent of the monster that they had created over these past 30 years..