CNN: Bernie Sanders Drops out of Presidential Race

‘Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is suspending his campaign for the presidency’

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NOBLES: “This is a long time coming for Senator Sanders. His campaign basically had been put on hold because of the Coronavirus crisis, and with each passing vote, he was falling further and further behind former Vice President Joe Biden in the delegate count, and now finally, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has decided that it’s time for him to bow out of the race for president. We’re told that he informed his staff during an all-staff call that took place a little after 11:00 today. And then later this morning, at 11:45 -- excuse me -- he’ll hold a live stream where he will address his supporters and talk about his reasons for getting out of the race and what his plans are going forward. Of course, John, this was a difficult decision for Bernie Sanders on many levels -- excuse me -- mainly because he had been at this fight for so long. And I’m not just talking about his time running for president of the United States, which he’s basically been running for president for more than five years if you go back to his entry into the race to take on Hillary Clinton back in the last go round. Sanders has also been working on many of these progressive issues for 40 years of his career. And it seemed like he was on the precipice of winning the Democratic nomination, right before the vote in South Carolina, he had won 3 of the 4 last contests. He and his team felt that they were in a good position going into Super Tuesday and then, of course, it all felt apart after losing big time in South Carolina and then the moderate vote coalescence around former Vice President Joe Biden, and after that, Sanders was just never able to regain that footing that he had once established. The big question I think, John, now, is exactly what does Bernie Sanders do to encourage his supporters to get behind the campaign of Joe Biden. One thing that Sanders has said consistently since he decided to get into this race in February of last year that was regardless of who the nominee was, that he was going to do everything he possibly could to help that Democratic nominee defeat Donald Trump. And you can already see it on social media, there are many Sanders supporters who are still uncomfortable with the idea of Vice President Joe Biden being their standard bearer. That’s a significant portion of the electorate. Obviously, not enough to win the Democratic primary, but a big enough portion of the vote that it would be very important to bring those folks into the Biden camp if they have any hope of beating Donald Trump this fall. So that is going to be his big test. I imagine we’re going to hear something along those lines during this 11:45 address to his supporters, that outreach to them that it is time to get behind Joe Biden in order to win the presidential election this fall. But the way that Sanders conducts himself between now and November, John, could play a key role in who wins and loses this presidential election.”

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