Crying Bernie Sanders Supporters

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Crying Bernie Sanders Supporters refers to people who were recorded crying during Bernie Sanders' speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, during which he endorsed former rival Hillary Clinton as his choice for president of the United States in the upcoming general election against Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Origin

On July 25th, 2016, supporters of former 2016 Democratic presidential primary candidate Bernie Sanders were filmed and photographed crying during his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (shown below).

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Shortly after his speech ended, journalist Philip Lewis tweeted an image of a tearful Sanders supporter with the caption "When the Whole Foods runs out of Kale:#DemsInPhilly" (shown below, left).^[2] Additionally, Twitter user @RevoltPolitic^[1] posted a screen capture of a young man wearing green felt hat while crying during Sanders' speech, referring to him as "crying Peter Pan guy" (shown below, middle). Meanwhile, Twitter user Quinn Sutherland posted the same picture, referring to the man as "Sad Robin Hood" (shown below, right).^[3]

That evening, other Twitter users posted videos, screen captures and animated GIFs of the crying Sanders supporters (shown below). In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online reaction to the crying Sanders supporters, including Vanity Fair,^[4] AJC,^[5] Complex,^[6] The Root,^[7] Heavy^[8] and Rolling Stone.^[9]

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