Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager declared Tuesday that there is no chance that the campaign will be closing up shop and ending its bid for the White House no matter what happens in California and the day’s five other primary contests.
Jeff Weaver told CNN that although they will assess the future of the campaign after the results, Sanders plans to campaign in Washington, D.C., ahead of next Tuesday’s primary in the nation’s capital. He revealed the plans when host John Berman asked what the campaign will consider tomorrow morning after the primaries.
“One of the criteria is that the District of Columbia is voting next week. Bernie Sanders said he’s going to be in this until all the voting is done. We already have a rally tentatively scheduled for Sunday in Washington, D.C., so the senator will be going and campaigning down in the District of Columbia,” Weaver said. “Why should the people of the District of Columbia be deprived of voting? It’s a little bit ironic given they’ve been deprived of voting for a member of Congress.”
“So he intends to campaign in the District of Columbia and obviously, you know, we are always assessing the campaign and what’s the best way to advance the campaign and secure the nomination,” Weaver continued. “So that will be a continuing conversation among the senator and his senior staff as we go forward this week and next week.”
“What are the chances with the assessment tomorrow — that the assessment tomorrow is that your campaign does not continue?” host Kate Bolduan asked the campaign chief.
“Oh, that our campaign does not continue tomorrow? I think there’s zero chance of that,” Weaver declared.
Berman then asked him if there was a “100 percent chance” Sanders would be fighting until the Democratic National Convention in July, with Weaver saying that if Sanders goes to the convention, he’ll be right behind him.
“Look, the senator has said he wants to go all the way to the convention,” Weaver said. “I have been with the senator for 30-some-odd years. If the senator wants to go to the convention, I will certainly be there with him, but at this point the senator has made very clear that he wants to go all the way to the convention.”
