Im pretty sure that the F.E.C. does not allow a cross debate between a loosing candidate and a presumed nominee...
Cross debates are only allowed for actual nominees from each party during the general election debates.

We don't think an actual debate will be taking place. It was more of a statement.

Will definitely be looking forward to how it turns out. Hopefully it was just a bad joke on BS's part.

Debates are sanctioned by their respective party. But Sanders has nothing to lose considering this would've been the last debate, and the penalty for doing something like this would be being excluded from future sanctioned debates. So there's no real consequence there for Bernie, or Trump. But there's also a different set of rules for cross-party debates & any network that would agree to air this thing would be f*cking themselves over cuz they'd get denied the rights to air the GE debates.

But I mean they could circumvent all of that and just make it an unofficial thing.There's ways around it I'm sure! But I don't think either of them are actually gonna make it happen.

!!!! It's something I really hope we can stop or decrease overtime, and I'm glad she has a plan.

I've given up hope on Bernie conceding before the convention. We've established that he doesn't care about the Democratic Party so naturally doesn't care about the harm he's doing to it. If Trump actually becomes President he'll just blame it on the corrupt Democratic establishment for not letting him have his rightful nomination. He genuinely believes that these primaries have been rigged beyond belief.

I used to think better of him, I thought he was really principled and welcomed his voice in the debate. But over the past few weeks he's shown himself to be like any other politician, in fact even worse. It's easy to see now why he has few friends in the Senate.

If he actually concedes after DC some of his reputation will be restored in my book. But considering some of the things that have been coming out of his mouth lately I just don't see it happening.

Well he appointed 5 members to the DNC committee who writes the party's platform. I'm sure they will fight to get rid of super delegates or have them vote proportionally. He will fight to change other things about delegates and the primaries. All of that will be worked out b4 the convention.

Even if he is successful, people have done the math, and Hillary would still win the nomination if that happens.

I can't believe Bernie wants to debate Trump before the California Primary. I swear

Can you imagine if Bernie actually stole the nomination at the convention it wouldn't be the craziest thing that's happened this election cycle

Which the DNC gave to him graciously! But yeah, part of the business that is conducted at the convention is for the DNC's platform for the upcoming session. So it wouldn't affect anything as it is now with his delegate allocation, that's said and done. Superdelegates do vote then tho, but most of those are pledged already. All they do is make it official. And like you said, HRC would still have the nom either way. But honestly, the platform itself is pretty irrelevant overall. It isn't really instrumental to anything (considering its non-binding) and has been described as the "Miss Congeniality" of the convention.

Even then, a lot of the planks that he would want added on to the platform are already largely supported by HRC. The only things I could see him fighting for would be the superdelegates and campaign finance, but those rules aren't decided at the convention. They're decided by DNC-empaneled commissions in between presidential contests. So none of this would take effect until 2020.

The only reason why the platform is even being talked about like this is because this is a way to get Sanders to endorse HRC during the GE. And he and his supporters get to feel like the DNC listened, and implemented his platform into the DNC's platform. But if Sanders overplays his hand and wants to do something crazy like completely rewrite everything and create chaos on the floor during the convention (which he's alluded to!) then thats when issues will happen. And thats where the significance lies, not really the ACTUAL platform itself.

Bernie is desperate. You're not even going to be the nominee so what's the point.

Outside of Trump hijacking the political arena, I don't see what crazy really happened.

If the words Hillary, is, and indicted aren't in the same sentence by July, he has 0% chance of getting it. I don't see how democratic or fair that would be. I would even go as far as to call it illegal. The Democratic Party would be in shambles.

If Clinton's poll numbers are bad by then and if anything else happens with her emails, I could see a good portion of the super delegates switching behind the scenes. I really doubt it but anything could happen if this election cycle is anything to go by.

It has to happen. Do you know how LIT it would be considering neither are "trained" politicians? Imagine the ratings as well.

Bernie is so ****ing annoying and desperate.

Bernie sanders is such a sore loser. Jesus Christ

It's become apparent that he doesn't care about anyone else but him

He's been an irrelevant no accomplishment hack for his entire life. The smallest taste of fame and he can't let go. A VH1 reality star tea.

It would be nice for him to finally be vetted, but Trump has no incentive to do that.

Why are you guys so threatened by a Bernie/Trump debate? It's gonna be lit, I hope it happens

It's a waste of time and BS would just be giving Trump another platform in which to talk about nothing but make news for nonsensical comments and facial expressions. Its a waste of time and taxpayer money.