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What Happened in Nevada?
Philip Bump, writer for The Washington Post's politics blog The Fix, and Anna Merlan, a staff reporter at Jezebel, discuss what happened in the Nevada convention and whether the continuation of the Sanders campaign will undermine the party’s attempt to maintain a unified front on the path to the White House.
Anna Merlan did some follow-up reporting on the threatening voicemails Nevada's Democratic State Party Chairwoman Roberta Lange received after the convention. She found that most of the people who left messages believed they were not being threatening and were speaking on behalf of a larger group of people.
Was interesting to talk to someone who threatened an elected official & hear him say he'd done it as a "character" https://t.co/NdHPLdDAkk
— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) May 18, 2016The @NPR ombudsman fact checks its coverage of the NV convention: https://t.co/uMxO9tTpTC
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) May 19, 2016