Sen. Bernie Sanders admits he does “not know” if Hillary Clinton will be indicted for the use of her private email server to conduct government business, but he’s certain the super-delegates won’t stick with her if she is.
“If if if — I’m not saying it is —if something like that were to happen, would that impact the electorate?” he said Friday on The Young Turks. “Of course it would. And would that be taken into consideration by the delegates? Of course it would.”
Sanders has long refused to attack Clinton for using a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state, but an inspector general released a report announcing that she failed to comply with federal record-keeping laws. The report undermined a number of Clinton’s claims about the email server, most especially her insistence that she “was permitted” to use the private set-up.
Sanders treaded lightly about the possibility of an indictment, but he was emphatic that the party brass should not turn to Vice President Joe Biden if it happens. “We’re off in speculation world: so number one is that there will be an indictment, which I do not know, and number two, that if there was, Joe would be brought in,” he said. “I think that would be a terrible, terrible idea.”
The comments came as his campaign team demanded that the Democratic National Committee strip Clinton allies of key posts at the party convention, a request that was denied on Saturday.
