The Bernie Sanders campaign increasingly resembles Cake’s 1996 song, “The Distance,” in which a lonely race car driver plows ahead long after the contest has ended.

“The sun has gone down and the moon has come up
And long ago somebody left with the cup
But he’s driving and striving and hugging the turns
And thinking of someone for whom he still burns.”

In the long battle for the Democratic nomination for president, Hillary Clinton has the cup and now simply awaits its formal presentation at the Democratic National Convention. She put an exclamation point on her nomination with a resounding victory Tuesday in the California primary, a contest that many polls had suggested was too close to call.

But with many of his die-hard supporters continuing to feel the Bern, the senator from Vermont appears in no mood to concede.

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In the wake of that, Sanders reportedly will lay off about half of his campaign staff, and Politico says his team is evenly divided about whether to call it quits to press on. But with many of his die-hard supporters continuing to feel the Bern, the senator from Vermont appears in no mood to concede. He vowed after the California primary that the “struggle continues” and mentioned the final primary in the District of Columbia next week.

“Next Tuesday, we continue the fight in the last primary in Washington, D.C.,” he said. “We are going, we are going, we are going to fight hard, we are going to fight hard to win the primary in Washington, D.C. And then we take our fight for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.”

Many of Sanders’ supporters have pronounced themselves prepared to follow his lead.

“I think he should stick around,” said Democratic strategist Harlan Hill, who supports Sanders but has said he would back Republican Donald Trump over Clinton. “He could be the last man standing. Hillary has a looming indictment over her head.”

Even if the FBI’s probe into Clinton’s use of a home-brew server to store emails during her tenure as secretary of state does not result in criminal charges, Hill said Sanders does not owe her or the Democratic National Committee anything.

“I don’t think he really cares about the DNC Establishment,” he said.

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Many of Sanders’ supporters on social media agree.

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“What’s the next step, per #BernieSanders? On to D.C. and then on to the convention,” Women for Bernie tweeted Wednesday.

In the aftermath of Tuesday’s primaries, Labor for Bernie tweeted: “Does it look like it’s over? We have Bernie’s back, we don’t need no corporate hack! #ThankYouBernie #FeelTheBern.”

The group People for Bernie Sanders was equally defiant.

“No movement has ever let a political party or delegate count determine their strength,” it tweeted. “We will not yield. We are not leaving #ThankYouBernie.”

Liberal commentator Cenk Uygur, a vocal Bernie backer, suggested on Twitter that he was in no mood to close ranks behind Clinton: “Question to HillBots: Do you want us to change our opinion of her overnight or just lie about our true opinion? How does one fall in line?”

The sentiment is not limited to organizations and public figures. Plenty of average Sanders supporters took to Twitter and Facebook to register their resolve to resist falling in line. Some urged him to continue fighting all the way to the convention. Others suggested he take his revolution to the Green Party.

“I refuse to follow the DNC,” Eric Lorber wrote on the People For Bernie Sanders Facebook page. “They now expect Bernie supporters, whom they suppressed and insulted time and time again, to vote for their chosen candidate.”

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Mississippi resident Bill Morris wrote on the page that Clinton is “trying to fool” Sanders supporters into backing her.

“Good luck with that! That will not happens!,” he wrote. “Our support is not for the Democratic Party. It is for the political revolution that Bernie is carrying on.”

Hill, the Democratic strategist, said Sanders holds all of the cards in the run-up to the convention because Clinton needs his supporters more than he needs any concession she might make.

“I don’t think he wants a spot in the administration,” he said. “I don’t know what they could give him.”