Bernie Sanders "Rips the Band-Aid Off"

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🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Senator Bernie Sanders has suspended his campaign for President. Join CNN Political Director David Chalian as he breaks down the effective conclusion to the Democratic Primary with the CNN reporters covering the Sanders and Biden Campaigns, Ryan Nobles and Arlette Seinz. They discuss how Sanders can fire up his supporters to support another candidate; whether a country in crisis led him to exit the race; and how Biden will pivot to the general election while in the middle of a pandemic.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So while we are winning the ideological battle, I have concluded that this battle for the Democratic nomination will not be successful.
0:09.8	But as I see the crisis gripping the nation, I cannot, in good conscience, continue to mount a campaign that cannot win and which would interfere with the important work required of all of us in this difficult hour.
0:28.5	Hey, everyone. I'm David Chalien, the CNN political director. This is the Daily DC.
0:34.6	Just one day, after a highly unusual Wisconsin primary taking place during this coronavirus pandemic,
0:42.0	Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders calls it quits in the 2020 presidential campaign. Kind of, sort of.
0:48.4	He is suspending his campaign, and that completely frees up the way for Joe Biden to be the presumptive Democratic nominee,
0:57.0	the candidate through a very crowded field to be the one to take on Donald Trump in November.
1:03.4	I could not have two better people to talk about this moment in American politics than the two
1:08.9	people covering these candidates for us constantly over the course
1:13.0	of the last year, Ryan Nobles, who has been covering the Bernie Sanders campaign for us, and Arlette
1:17.9	Sines, who is on the Biden campaign for us. Guys, thank you so much for being here.
1:21.8	Thank you, David. We appreciate it. Ryan, let me just start with you. Sanders suspends his campaign.
1:27.4	He calls Biden a decent man, but there wasn't really much more else about Joe Biden or looking forward to exactly what his combined effort with Biden will be like. It seemed to me, and I would love to hear what your reporting is on this, it seemed to me this was
1:45.4	after weeks of carefully thinking through, and not just thinking through, but also executing
1:51.7	ways in which to bring his supporters along on this journey to this moment where he suspends
1:58.8	his campaign and says Biden's going to be the nominee.
2:05.9	Yeah, I think you're absolutely right, David. You know, I think that the campaign is known for quite a while that the race was effectively over, that they really didn't have a viable
2:10.0	path to the nomination. And what the last maybe two, maybe even three weeks have been about
2:14.9	is trying to figure out the best way to kind of coalesce
2:19.4	their support behind Joe Biden because I think they understand that that is not going to be an easy
2:24.5	chore. And more than anything, people that support progressive politics and to that extension
2:29.9	support Bernie Sanders want to know that Bernie Sanders did everything he possibly could to get
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