PREPARED REMARKS: The Political Revolution Continues https://t.co/rGOPWmKD43 #OurRevolution — Medicare For All 🌹 (@NCForBernie) June 17, 2016

The Full Transcript Of The Speech Can Be Found Here

Election days come and go. But political and social revolutions that attempt to transform our society never end. They continue every day, every week and every month in the fight to create a nation of social and economic justice. That’s what the trade union movement is about. That’s what the civil rights movement is about. That’s what the women’s movement is about. That’s what the gay rights movement is about. That’s what the environmental movement is about. And that’s what this campaign has been about over the past year. That’s what the political revolution is about and that’s why the political revolution must continue into the future. Real change never takes place from the top down, or in the living rooms of wealthy campaign contributors. It always occurs from the bottom on up – when tens of millions of people say “enough is enough” and become engaged in the fight for justice. That’s what the political revolution we helped start is all about. That’s why the political revolution must continue. When we began this campaign a little over a year ago, we had no political organization, no money and very little name recognition. The media determined that we were a fringe campaign. Nobody thought we were going anywhere. Well, a lot has changed over a year. During this campaign, we won more than 12 million votes. We won 22 state primaries and caucuses. We came very close – within 2 points or less – in five more states. In other words, our vision for the future of this country is not some kind of fringe idea. It is not a radical idea. It is mainstream. It is what millions of Americans believe in and want to see happen.

My hope is that when future historians look back on the campaign of 2016 they will say that is where it all began. Thank you #OurRevolution — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) June 17, 2016

Within the speech that @BernieSanders streamed live to supporters is a message to Superdelegates #OurRevolution https://t.co/Cvyx9xAQQY — 🌹Jenny (@jenny_nalley) June 17, 2016

Sanders Offers No Concessions

Bernie Sanders is not ready to concede his presidential campaign, nor is he ready to throw his support behind Hillary Clinton, leaving his political future murky. That was the takeaway from a much anticipated teleconference Sanders held with supporters Thursday evening, more than a week after Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential nomination and amidst the flight of many of his top supporters. Instead, in his address, Sanders focused on the need to continue the “political revolution” beyond his campaign in order to advance his agenda and elect progressive leaders at all levels, while also paying special attention to defeating Donald Trump. “Election days come and go. But political and social revolutions that attempt to transform our society never end,” Sanders said during the address. More than 218,000 people tuned in to watch, according to the campaign, with a peak of 104,000 watching at any given moment. “The major political task that we face in the next five months is to make certain that Donald Trump is defeated and defeated badly. And I personally intend to begin my role in that process in a very short period of time,” Sanders said. “But defeating Donald Trump cannot be our only goal. We must continue our grassroots efforts to create the America that we know we can become.”

Bernie Sanders received more than 12m votes by winning 22 state primaries and caucuses https://t.co/f9f8FtAckH pic.twitter.com/b5LrtuwiSj — The Economist (@TheEconomist) June 17, 2016

Thank you everyone who made a single call for @BernieSanders! #OurRevolution pic.twitter.com/hdrsTvI0Xq — Maisy Malice (@maisymalice) June 17, 2016

From The NY Times:

The primaries are officially over. Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are attacking each other over the Orlando tragedy. Final touches are being made to convention plans. Running mates are being vetted. But on Thursday night, Senator Bernie Sanders stood at a podium in a small, chilly television studio here pointing his index finger at a camera and insisting to his supporters that his campaign was fighting on. With five bright lights illuminating him, Mr. Sanders delivered a shortened version of his stump speech via livestream to his supporters, saying his “political revolution” was just beginning and reeling off the many injustices it would set about to end. Although it covered a lot of ground, from the influence of money to poverty wages to fracking to the cost of college, the speech did not include the one thing some Democratic leaders have awaited: an endorsement of Mrs. Clinton, who last week became the presumptive nominee. “The major political task that we face in the next five months is to make certain that Donald Trump is defeated and defeated badly,” Mr. Sanders said. “I personally intend to begin my role in that process in a very short period of time.” But if that sounded like a hint he would get behind Mrs. Clinton, in his next breath he made clear that helping her was not necessarily his top priority. “Defeating Donald Trump cannot be our only goal,” he said. “We must continue our grass-roots efforts to create the America that we know we can become. And we must take that energy into the Democratic National Convention on July 25 in Philadelphia.”

Whatever Bernie Sanders announcement concerns it will not stop the political revolution. Only fuel it. Period. #ThursdayThoughts — RealTimBlack (@RealTimBlack) June 16, 2016

I am hoping the convention will nominate @BernieSanders and am well aware that CA votes are still being counted. Feeling the Bern! — Tim Canova (@Tim_Canova) June 16, 2016

From CNN

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday vowed to work with Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump, but he didn’t end his presidential bid or endorse the presumptive Democratic nominee. “The major political task that we face in the next five months is to make certain that Donald Trump is defeated and defeated badly,” Sanders said in a much-anticipated live-stream address. “And I personally intend to begin my role in that process in a very short period of time.” Sanders did not offer details on how he plans to fulfill that role. Much of the video amounted to a version of Sanders’ standard stump speech, and he encouraged his legions of followers to run for local office. He once again pledged to take his bid all the way to the convention. And he described his differences with Clinton as “strong” but limited. “It is no secret that Secretary Clinton and I have strong disagreements on some very important issues. It is also true that our views are quite close on others,” Sanders said. “I look forward, in the coming weeks, to continued discussions between the two campaigns to make certain that your voices are heard and that the Democratic Party passes the most progressive platform in its history and that Democrats actually fight for that agenda.” The Vermont senator vowed to take his campaign’s “energy” into the Democratic National Convention next month. But Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver told Bloomberg News earlier Thursday that the campaign was no longer actively lobbying superdelegates.

liberals trying to explain away Bernie's success as non-ideological are fooling themselves https://t.co/uzPbJAgWXw f. @shawngude @karpmj — ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) June 16, 2016

Mother Jones: Bernie Makes It Official, He Is Not Dropping Out

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday night shifted the focus of his presidential campaign, re-framing it as a long-term movement and pledging to fight for change at the Democratic National Convention and beyond. “Defeating Donald Trump cannot be our only goal,” Sanders said in an online address watched by some 100,000 people. “We must continue our grassroots effort to create the America that we know we can become. And we must take that energy into the Democratic National Convention.” Noting that he had recently met with his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, Sanders made clear that he would not drop out of the presidential race anytime soon. “I look forward in coming weeks to continued discussion between the two campaigns,” he said, adding that he wanted to make certain that the Democratic Party passes the most progressive platform in its history and becomes “a party of working people and young people and not just wealthy campaign contributors.” Sanders did not indicate which of his campaign’s core issues might be priorities in his negotiations with Clinton; instead, he rattled off more than a dozen talking points, from raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and winning pay equity for women to implementing a carbon tax and ending “perpetual wars.” The speech seemed aimed at shifting the focus of Berners from the presidential election to longer-term progressive goals, while still maintaining their interest and enthusiasm. The campaign’s latest slogan—”the political revolution continues”—repeatedly surfaced as a theme. “We have begun the long and arduous process of transforming America, a fight that will continue tomorrow, next week, next year, and into the future,” Sanders said. He urged his young supporters—”the people who are determining the shape and future of our country”— to run for state and local office. “We need new blood in the political process, and you are that blood,” he said.

Some 218,000 people tuned in to watch @BernieSanders deliver his 23 minute speech today, campaign says. — Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 17, 2016

When @BernieSanders says progressives should run for office, that means you! Let's do this! #PoliticalRevolution — Ben Jealous (@BenJealous) June 17, 2016

Who Will The People Who Gave To Bernie Give To? (or: Dems Didnt Learn A Damn Thing)

Sanders finishes the primary season with a fundraising list of some 2.5 million contributors, including legions of millennials new to politics. “It’s largely a younger list,” said Anthony Corrado, a political scientist who studies campaign finance at Colby College. “I expect it includes many new donors that aren’t amongst the traditional source of candidate or party finance.” But Corrado said it’s not a given that the list can work magic for others. The variable, he said, is “whether they are largely Sanders donors, or whether he has tapped into a large cohort of progressive individuals who are going to be responsive to candidates who adopt progressive policy issues.” Sanders has already deployed the list to help 13 down-ballot progressives. The fundraising, with Sanders’s imprimatur, was a success. But in the first contest for any of them, Lucy Flores of Nevada lost her House primary bid Tuesday. Democratic fundraising consultant Mike Fraioli said he’s skeptical the list’s magic can be spread widely among Democrats. “It’s tough to convert donors like that. I don’t think it’s a message that easily moves to another candidate or another committee.” With the uncertainty, many mainstream Democrats may still find it too scary to go after small donors, and abandon the tried and true big-donor approach.

Loved tone of @BernieSanders speech.We're not fighting this campaign as much as fighting for #OurRevolution.A revolution can't be suspended. — Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) June 17, 2016

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Behind The Scenes Of Sanders’ Ad Strategy

The campaign began putting ads on the air in November with biographical ads, Devine said, in which the campaign introduced Sanders to voters in the early states with a series of ads explaining Sanders’ history in Brooklyn and attending the March on Washington in 1963. “Now he’s taking on Wall Street and a corrupt political system,” says a narrator in one of the ads. In the second phase of advertising, Devine said, the campaign laid out Sanders’ core campaign message: that he was fighting against income inequality, the political establishment and political corruption. One of the ads, called “Rigged Economy,” told voters just that. “Bernie Sanders: husband, father, grandfather. He’s taking on Wall Street and a corrupt political system that keeps in place a rigged economy,” says a narrator. The campaign then moved to a series of testimonial and issue-specific ads on topics ranging from free public college to single-payer healthcare. Devine said that the campaign also played an advertisement about Sanders’ congressional record. “We also heavily rotated an ad about Bernie’s effectiveness, which was a concern of many voters we found in our research, particularly in Iowa and also to an extent in New Hampshire,” Devine said. Devine said that the campaign then moved to advertisements about the role of Wall Street and politicians who receive speaking fees. The Clinton campaign aides cried foul, believing these ads were implicitly targeted at Hillary Clinton and broke Sanders’ promise never to run a negative campaign. The one called “Two Visions” had Sanders speaking to camera explaining that there are “two Democratic visions for regulating Wall Street: one says its okay to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do.” Then came the advertisement that was widely considered the tour de force of the Sanders campaign ads, “America.” It was released a little over a week before the Iowa caucus and simply included images of a wide array of people from all around the country, with the sound of Simon & Garfunkel’s “America.” The song was played over and over again at rallies; the ad came to reflect what many Sanders supporters saw was best in the campaign. “In my mind the America ad, was if you’ve got great relief pitching, you’ve got a starter that was seven innings, somebody comes in in the eighth and they get three outs, okay?” Devine said. “In my mind the America ad was the eighth inning pitcher who set it up. Every time you put it up you get three outs.”

That @BernieSanders speech was quite good. It dismantled so many myths that were propagated about him during the primary. #OurRevolution — Ben Spielberg (@BenSpielberg) June 17, 2016

#OurRevolution is 11 million + strong as @BernieSanders says over and over its about US not him make haste ✊🏼 pic.twitter.com/hUCiDkwduL — Grassroots Life🌹 (@GrassrootsJill) June 17, 2016