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Can Bernie Beat Trump?

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

As Bernie Sanders becomes the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, pundits have started wringing their hands about Bernie’s chances of winning in a general election. Are any of these fears grounded in reality?


Guest: Steve Kornacki, National Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC


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0:00.0

If you've turned on cable news recently, picked up a newspaper, panic over the Democratic

0:09.6

primary process.

0:10.6

It has been hard to avoid.

0:12.6

Yeah.

0:13.6

So what exactly are you afraid of?

0:16.6

I'm afraid that Donald Trump is going to get reelected.

0:19.8

And I have to do this for four more years, and I don't think we can make it.

0:23.0

I really don't.

0:23.8

Look at the way people.

0:25.6

With Bernie Sanders in the lead going into South Carolina, you can feel some political commentators reaching around for the emergency break.

0:33.9

People like James Carville and Rahm Emanuel, they can look a little wide-eyed, sound a little hyperbolic.

0:40.6

I think it's a little late to stop them, and I think that's the problem.

0:44.4

Like, this is Chris Matthews, after the Nevada Caucasus.

0:48.8

He compared the Sanders surge to the Nazis taking over France.

0:53.2

And yeah, he apologized for this later, but still.

0:56.6

I'm reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940. And the general, Renaud,

1:02.4

calls up Churchill and says, it's over. And Churchill says, how can it be? You've got the greatest

1:07.9

army in Europe. How can it be over? He said it's over. So I had that

1:12.3

suppressed feeling. I can't be as wild as Carbo, but he is damn. Yeah, I mean, my favorite

1:21.0

headline was in New York Magazine. Like, if Democrats aren't terrified of Bernie, they're not paying

1:25.4

attention, which is like, who, deep breath.

1:30.1

Yeah, and I think people are trying to figure out our concept of what's electable, our concept

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