The leaks validated what they already suspected. Every major news outlet is covering them, and it's clearly become an issue if DWS is being removed from speaking at the DNC.
And like I said, Bernie stans already felt that way anyway and those leaks surprise no one.
I think Bernie is probably equidistant from Trump and Hillary. But again, you're looking at this through an outdated political model. The traditional "left-right" paradigm is becoming obsolete. The culture wars are over, Trump is neutralizing the usual social wedge issues between Democrats and Republicans. Bernie's biggest issues are trade, a rigged system, too much money in politics and banking. On all those issues, Bernie is ideologically just as close, if not closer, to Trump than he is to Hillary. On most of the other issues you mentioned, Trump has taken positions that deprive Democrats of the stark contrast they desperately want to make.
lol and again, you myopically think the issues that are important to you are most important to most voters. Trade is not the biggest issue. Trade is #11 according to this poll, for example.
4. Top voting issues in 2016 election Even on the issue of trade, virtually no economist believes a trade war with China is a good idea, and that is what Trump is proposing. Sanders isn't. Sanders is just against trade deals across the board. Taxing Chinese imports until they give up is not a serious winning strategy and Hillary will hit him on that in the debates when it comes up.
I don't know what you're talking about the money in politics for because Trump isn't an advocate of campaign finance reform.
Bernie is not closer to Trump than Hillary on most issues, you just seem to have a one-track mind about trade. Bernie central message is about income inequality and better living conditions for the middle class and he's an economic progressive on those matters. Trump wants to give huge tax breaks to the richest 1%, not raise the minimum wage, not expand healthcare or social security, and not provide free college tuition.
Bernie just said himself in that interview
@dtownreppin214 posted that encourages people to vote for Hillary because Trump is the worst candidate in history, and Hillary is pushing the most progressive platform the Democratic party has ever had. Not much ambiguity or wiggle room there. He pretty much said everything I told you he would say at the DNC while you were flirting with this naive fantasy that he would pull a Cruz at the DNC. But I guess you know him better than he knows himself and can speak for him.
And sorry to break it to you, but social issues still matter to voters. Why do you think Hillary is dominating amongst all racial minorities and women and Trump is dominating amongst white men? You smartdumb Ron Paul/Trump paleoconservative types are annoying with your downplaying of the impact of racism, sexism, and bigotry. Structural racism and discrimination starts with the biases and ideologies of the people doing the legislating and governing.
As I showed above, minimum wage is no longer a strong wedge issue:
Trump hints at middle ground on minimum wage
On healthcare, Trump has been inconsistent, but has called for universal coverage:
On social security, Trump has pledged to oppose cuts in defiance of Republican orthodoxy:
Donald Trump Shuns Social Security Reform, Takes Target off GOP’s Back
On college tuition, Trump has said he wants to stop federal government profiting off student loans:
Donald Trump on the Student Loan Crisis | Loan Forgiveness
Bruh are you ever going to even attempt to have an honest debate about Trump and his policy positions without posting a link to some vague, meaningless anecdotal Trump quote and then typing what you would like like it to mean instead of what he actually said? It's beyond comical at this point. It's like you invented a new form of trolling.
1. Trump has NOT come out for raising the national minimum wage. He just said some shyt about how he thinks wages are too low. He does not support instituting a wage hike by federal law.
2. Trump doesn't have a social security plan. He just said he wouldn't cut it. He said nothing about any measures to expand coverage or keep it solvent. Hillary proposes a SS tax increase on the highest earners. However, his top econ advisors are all people who want to privatize SS and he's pushing a budget that going to reduce revenues by $10 trillion over the next decade, but somehow he's not going to cut Medicare, SS, Medicaid, and the military because you know...he makes great deals and stuff.
3. I can't believe you posted that stupid video of Trump saying he's going to repeal Obamacare and provide universal healthcare without giving a single detail about how he's going to do it other than saying he'll make great deals with hospitals. It's impossible to have a rational conversation with you because you are being willfully obtuse.
4. Regarding Trump on student debt relief, this is from the very source you linked.
Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton on Student Loans - Student Debt Relief | Student Loan Forgiveness 
This is why Bernie and the Democrats are left with doing what you just did by calling Trump a "crazy, incompetent racist pathological lying narcissist"; taking the focus off policy and turning the election into a superficial referendum on Trump's personality.
"Forget banking deregulation, did you see how rude Trump was to Megyn Kelly
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"Trade deals?? Nevermind that, look at the latest Trump tweet!
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"Foreign policy?? Uhh, Trump hates black people!
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Um, no. I just laid out exactly what Bernie is going to hit Trump on, and you conveniently ignored every single word of it and didn't even bother quoting it in your response. There's no need to even debate about it because Bernie already said pretty much exactly what I said he would in a video linked in this very thread, where basically previewed his DNC speech. He's going to say Trump is a racist pathological lying narcissist with an unfit temperament for President that is going to increase income inequality, give yuge tax breaks to the millionaires and billionaires and the richest 1% who have rigged the system and do nothing to help working people.
Are you fukking kidding? He can't shyt on Trump for a trickle-down tax plan that would reduce revenues by $9.5 trillion over 10 years and add $34.1 trillion to the national debt in 20 years, and give the top 0.1% more relief than the bottom 60%? He can't shyt on Trump for cutting the corporate tax rate to 15% and repealing the estate tax? He can't shyt on Trump for wanting to build a wall on the Mexican border? He can't shyt on Trump for wanting repeal The Affordable Care Act? He can't shyt on Trump for being generally full of shyt and barely having any policy specifics on anything? He can't shyt on Trump for saying women who have abortions should be punished? He can't shyt on Trump for being a cliimate change denier? @Broke Wave you hear this guy?
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