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If he was the better candidate, he wouldn't have lost so badly, wouldn't have completely ignored the south, and he definitely wouldn't have gotten nastier once it became clear he had no chance of winning four months before dropping out.

You don't use attacks in the primary that will damage in the general. "Hillary's plans don't go far enough" is okay, "Hillary's plans don't go far enough because she is in the pocket of big business and only I truly care about you" is not. Nobody in the world would have made a deal out of those speaking fees, it's complete bullshit, and he disparaged a highly rated charity that provides AIDS drugs to Africa free of charge.

He's did more to legitimize Trump's victory in one week than he did to Hillary's in months.

Bernie lost the primary by nearly 4 million voters while playing dirty and suffering almost no attacks. Hillary won the popular vote by 2.5 million voters and only lost the electoral college by wafer-thin margins after decades of unfounded attacks by the Republicans, unprecedented intervention by foreign governments, an unethically partisan FBI director kneecapping her a little over a week to the finish line, and unceasing attacks by a jealous old lefty trying to create a legacy for himself after decades of failing to accomplish anything. She was a damn strong candidate and Sanders couldn't put up with a fraction of what she did. He's a bitter, jealous, incompetent loser who's trying to take over a party that's done more good for the less fortunate than he ever has based on a loss that he directly and immorally contributed to in order to move it away from caring for the less fortunate because it's "identity politics."

He wasn't the better candidate, he was a terrible candidate, and he absolutely bares a portion of the blame for Trump's win for his bullshit attacks against Hillary that he never walked back after he knew she was going to win.

EDIT: it's not "trying too hard," it's trying to invalidate her to stroke his own ego