Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast.

Today is Monday, the 24th of February 2020. I am John Pudhward. It's the editor of commentary with me as always.

Senior Editor, A Greenwald. Hello, Abe. Hi, John. Associate Editor, Noah Rothman. Hi, Noah. Hi, John.

Actually, not always because you were not here on Thursday. And we missed you. And in Washington,

senior writer, Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. So suddenly, you know, in about five seconds,

Bernie Sanders is now, you know, the king of all of all his surveys and is, you know, has a we basically

week from tomorrow may run away with the democratic nomination and be Trump. And we will become

a socialist country in 2021. Have I gotten that? Do I have that right? Okay, so I'm going to offer

one proviso that says that maybe people are jumping the gun, which is that when you come right

down to it, after all the voting was tallied. And in fact, Sanders got 46% of the delegates or the

count, whatever in Nevada on Saturday, with a grand total of 26,000 votes. So we are, we are now

ruling that he has completely, you know, taken over the democratic party with 26,000 votes after two

arguably sub expectations, performances in Iowa and New Hampshire. For some reason, people keep

saying that he has now won the first three. He did not win Iowa, but a judge got more votes and

more delegates. So I don't really understand how people are still saying that he won Iowa, but okay,

so he, but this is a trope that people are now saying that he won Iowa, and he, and he certainly won

New Hampshire, but he won by a point, by one point, two points over. But a judge, but we are looking at

the Nevada results were about a judge, you know, got about 11% and didn't clear the statewide threshold.

And now the whole idea is that he's dead and Amy Clovichar is dead and Biden is, you know, even though he got 20%

in Nevada is, you know, choking on fumes and so that only leaves Bernie and Bloomberg and Bloomberg

was so bad in the debate last week that everything is, you know, just falling Bernie's way.

Abe, it is time for you to take a victory lap because since the spring, you have been saying

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