--- title: Democratic Convention: Bernie Sanders' Press Secretary description: The former national press secretary for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign told his supporters that "the system didn't cheat us." canonical: https://time.com/4423038/democratic-convention-bernie-sanders-symone/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-25T23:40:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:32:18.527Z article:section: Politics og:title: Sanders' Spokeswoman Calls for Supporters to Back Clinton og:description: "We lost. It's a hard reality for some." og:url: https://time.com/4423038/democratic-convention-bernie-sanders-symone/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9aaaa51847106d13/698894f28e0601999c4660e8/bernie-sanders-arun-chaudhary-14.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Bernie-Sanders-Arun-Chaudhary-14 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sanders' Spokeswoman Calls for Supporters to Back Clinton twitter:description: "We lost. It's a hard reality for some." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9aaaa51847106d13/698894f28e0601999c4660e8/bernie-sanders-arun-chaudhary-14.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bernie Sanders' Press Secretary Calls for Supporters to Back Clinton by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 25, 2016 11:40 PM UTC  Sen. Bernie Sanders and his national press secretary Symone Sanders (no relation) march in the Labor Day parade in Milford, NH. Sen. Bernie Sanders and his national press secretary Symone Sanders (no relation) march in the Labor Day parade in Milford, NH.Eric Elofson/Revolution Messaging—Bernie 2016 by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 25, 2016 11:40 PM UTC The former national press secretary for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign told his supporters via Twitter at the height of Democratic protests on Monday that “the system didn’t cheat us.” Symone Sanders said in a Twitter flurry that while the [leaked Democratic National Committee emails](http://time.com/4421844/fbi-dnc-email-hack-investigation/) showed bias, “7 folks on an email didn’t ‘steal’ the election.” She was referring to DNC emails leaked by WikiLeaks that showed executives disparaging the Sanders campaign. The theme for the Democratic convention on Monday was “United Together,” and Sanders was on-message, calling for Sanders supporters to resolve to make the party better. > [](https://twitter.com/SymoneDSanders/status/757691066455887872) Sanders [left the campaign in late June](http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/26/politics/sanders-press-secretary-exits-campaign/). Sen. Sanders has also taken to Twitter and text today in an effort to unite his followers behind Clinton. He will address the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia tonight. > [](https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/757707676583391232) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4423038/democratic-convention-bernie-sanders-symone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4423038/democratic-convention-bernie-sanders-symone/"},"headline":"Bernie Sanders' Press Secretary Calls for Supporters to Back Clinton","datePublished":"2016-07-25T23:40:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:32:18.527Z","description":"The former national press secretary for Vermont Sen. 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