Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said Wednesday that the current turmoil within the Democratic Party would eventually be viewed as "much ado about nothing" and result in unity behind the party's frontrunner.
Fallon pointed to 2008, when large percentages of Clinton supporters said they could not back Barack Obama if he won the nomination, saying the party eventually came together and helped elect him to the presidency.
"Here, I think that the percentages in terms of Democrats suggesting in these states that they can't support Hillary Clinton is far less, and even among those people, I really suspect that at the end of this process after the D.C. primary, both sides are going to come together," Fallon said. "Senator Sanders will keep to his word and work like heck to defeat Donald Trump in the general election, and a lot of this in retrospect will look like much ado about nothing."
The uproar last weekend at the Nevada State Democratic Convention caused by angry supporters of populist favorite Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), in addition to Sanders' rhetoric against party leaders for trying to rig the process, is causing a split in the party. Nevada Democratic Party chair Roberta Lange has received death threats and harassment. DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) condemned the behavior and called out Sanders for not acceptably responding to his followers' behavior.
While Clinton is poised to clinch the nomination in June, she finds herself taking shots from both Sanders and the Republican Party's presumptive nominee, Donald Trump. In spite of his path nearly being closed for the nomination, Sanders told another large crowd in California Tuesday night that he would continue fighting into the summer.
Sanders won Oregon and lost just barely in Kentucky Tuesday, following up solid victories for the Democratic socialist in Indiana and West Virginia. Nevertheless, he trails overall in the party's popular vote, pledged delegates and especially in superdelegates to Clinton.