Bernie’s Inner Circle Have Now Started Urging Him To Drop Out
When Bernie Sanders stopped winning primaries this season, he kept insisting that he has a “narrow path” to the nomination. But he and his team have yet to disclose what this plan is.
Almost all the states and territories that haven’t voted yet soundly rejected him in 2016. The polls don’t look good for Bernie either. Since Joe Biden took Arizona, Florida, and Illinois on March 17, Sanders has consistently trailed him by double-digits in every single national poll.
“He knows he has a mathematical path if he starts to win these primaries, and they’re primaries he’s won before in 2016,” said Larry Cohen, chairman of the group ‘Our Revolution,’ who has known Sanders for nearly 30 years. “But he always knows that he is the leader of the progressive Democrats and there’s millions of them left to vote and delegate count matters in terms of leverage.”
People close to the campaign say that Sanders often takes his time with meaningful choices, and he may still be processing the fact that he likely won’t get the nomination despite coming temptingly close earlier this year.
“I just think he’s in his rumination phase. When he makes a decision, he ruminates and ruminates and ruminates, and gets enormously wrapped up in his head,” said a Democrat who has known Sanders for years. “It feels to me like that’s where he is: He’s sort of rolling it over.”
“The party reforms go down the drain if he doesn’t stay in,” said Cohen, adding that if he drops out before hitting 1,200 delegates, “it’s going to be Biden’s people writing the platform, that’s it.”
“The path to someone else getting the nomination besides Joe Biden is Joe Biden on television, and Joe Biden exposing himself as a weak candidate. I’m hopeful that the Democratic Party will come to its senses and nominate Bernie Sanders,” said Kurt Ehrenberg, Sanders’ long-time political strategist in New Hampshire. “It’s clear to people who look at it that the health care system is failing us when we need it most. Who else has been hearkening us to this problem in such an articulate and smart way?”
