Democrats try to cram in their last-minute attacks on Bernie.

The media finally deem it worthwhile to ask some basic questions of the presumptive Democratic nominee

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slash Ben. That's ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. Okay. So tonight is the final real chance for the Democrats to stop Bernie Sanders.

What I mean by that is that Bernie Sanders is obviously on the upswing in every national poll he is now leading.

He is leading in virtually all of the state polls with very few exceptions. In South Carolina, he is trailing. He is trailing Joe Biden by just a few points. But Bernie Sanders has not been exposed to any real scrutiny, a point I've been making repeatedly for literally months on this show, maybe years on this show. Bernie Sanders is a full-fledged communist. Bernie Sanders has not yet met a socialist dictator he did not love or could not express love for.

Bernie Sanders has been a lifelong Marxist. I mean, this is without a doubt. Go back all the way

to his earliest days in Vermont when he was living as a loser in basically a rundown apartment

while his not wife had his child and was on welfare, and he was making videos about Eugene Debs. I'm not kidding. This was actually his youth. Okay, when I say his youth, I mean all the way until he was 39, Bernie Sanders was a communist who never held a real mind-to-five job. Okay, and then he was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont by 10 votes, and this starts his political career. Bernie Sanders has been this guy the whole time,

and only now are the media seeing fit to say hey maybe we should

ask some questions about this guy like why is he running for a president and why are people taking him

seriously well tonight there is a big democratic debate and expect for michael bloomberg and presumably

if joe biden has any brains at all joe biden and Bloomberg and presumably if Joe Biden has any brains at all, Joe Biden, and if Elizabeth Warren has any brains at all, Elizabeth Warren, to attack Bernie. Because here's the reality. Bernie is not only the frontrunner. He is the prohibitive frontrunner at this point. Michael Bloomberg, for one, is planning a full-on onslaught on Bernie Sanders. He's the only one who brought any game to Bernie Sanders the entire race in the last debate when he pointed out that Bernie, a lifelong communist who's been a loser who's never earned a dollar other than writing a book in the last couple of years. And when he did earn a dollar, it was off of taxpayer dollars, that that loser has a lakehouse. So it's easy to be a socialist with a lakehouse. He'd never been asked that question directly to his face, Bernie Sanders. Michael Bloomberg asked that, well, Michael Bloomberg is going to really ramp it up tonight, according to Politico. Political reports Mike Bloomberg and a handful of staffers spent Monday at the so-called happiest place on Earth preparing for the bruising task ahead the next day, hunkered down at the Four Seasons Hotel in Florida's Disney World, the former New York mayor prepared for a mission to salvage his half-billion

dollar investments in the... task ahead the next day, hunkered down at the Four Seasons Hotel in Florida's Disney World,

the former New York mayor prepared for a mission to salvage his half-billion-dollar investment in the presidential race with a debate performance designed to quiet the critics

install frontrunner Bernie Sanders' momentum. After a disastrous first doubting, his net favorable

rating dropped 20 points in the aftermath, according to morning consult, Bloomberg's

debate goals in the Charleston, South Carolina debate are twofold. One, persuade viewers that Sanders is too divisive to defeat President Trump in November, and two, sidestep landmines surrounding complaints from women at his private media company and his race-based policing practices as mayor. Dan Cannonin is a top strategist overseeing Bloomberg's state operations. He said in a conference, called the debate tomorrow night, and the campaign in general needs to be about one candidate, and that's Bernie Sanders. We've been saying for some time that the nature of this contest means someone with even a small plurality of delegates can come away with an outsized and disproportionate delegate lead. And this, of course, is exactly correct. They also point out, and this is also true, that Bloomberg was much better in the second half of the debate

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