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Why should Bernie drop out?
There is a price for Sanders’ exit, and Biden can’t pay it.
In Bernie Sanders’ recent appearances, he has tried to keep the focus on his vision for universal health care and how it relates to the deepening COVID-19 crisis, but the interviews always some how manage to revolve around two questions: When is he dropping out and why hasn’t he?
On Wednesday, those questions were posed to the Vermont senator by Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of The View and a vocal backer of Joe Biden. She alluded to the 2016 primary: “Just so we’re clear, you worked for Hillary, but it took you a very, very long time to hop in, and your people also, it took a very long time for them to hop in.”
When Sanders replied that he doesn’t “accept that characterization,” Goldberg asked point blank: “Why are you still in the race?”
Afterward, actress Alyssa Milano raised a lot of ire on Twitter by thanking Goldberg for not taking “bullshit from our politicians.” She called the Sanders campaign “morally bankrupt,” erroneously claiming that it was still fundraising amid the crisis (The campaign stopped ad buys and has used its donor list to raise $3 million for coronavirus relief thus far).
