Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm your host, Sara Isger.

Join us always by David French, Steven Hayes, and Jonah Goldberg.

We're coming at you on this rainy Tuesday afternoon in DC just ahead of the South Carolina debate.

So we'll definitely get into what's going on in the Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders.

Then touch a little on the purge or supposed purge that's going on in the administration right now.

And then we'll end with some popery, I guess. Some Weinstein verdict, coronavirus,

little of everything. Let's dive right in.

So Jonah, let's start with you on this. Topic is Bernie Sanders now the most electable option

for Democrats. And to back up a second, you have him really getting the highest vote totals in

the first three. He's certainly the delegate leader at this point. We're heading into South Carolina

and the polls are actually looking pretty good from there. He had this huge rally in Austin yesterday.

Now because Democrats use the proportional system, there is some chance of him not getting to

that delegate threshold. And they're being a brokered convention. But even there, it's hard to

see how he wouldn't be the delegate leader. That being said, he didn't have a great press week.

His comments about Castro riled up some Democrats from Florida, including a Congresswoman.

But it keeps coming back to this electability question. Is he at this point their best candidate

to take on Donald Trump? Yeah, so when you, first of all, lovely to see you.

When you initially asked the question, he says, is he now the most electable?

I thought there was a strategic ambiguity in the question in that I think he is the most likely

to be elected in the sense of getting the nomination. I do not believe he is the most electable

candidate to defeat Donald Trump. I think he can defeat Donald Trump. And a lot of people who think

it's a foregone conclusion that he'll lose against Trump are getting themselves a little bit.

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