Jane Sanders erupts at MSNBC host
An MSNBC host in real-time started receiving a New York Times report stating that Bernie Sanders will be reassessing the campaign after the Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland primaries. She relayed the message to Jane Sanders, who she was interviewing at the time. Jane Sanders had what has to be called in election parlance a justifiable eruption.
“No. No. We assess on a daily basis,” Jane Sanders said. “You know even if he had a string of wins, like eight in a row or he has won states by landslide victories, nobody in the media, and certainly not the New York Times, has ever said he had a chance to win. That’s not right. It’s kind of crazy that you don’t understand what he is offering and is resonating among young people is an alternative future. We are talking about transforming this country, transforming America, so that people, regular people, working class, the disappearing middle-class, are at the center of our policy making, dealing with the issue that twenty percent of our kids live in poverty, that out teenagers are not sure they can go to college, and that our college students are bankrupting their future being able to pay for it. There are a lot of issues that we need to discuss. I still hope. Hope springs eternal. I still hope that the mass media will actually start to discuss the issues instead of the horse race. Or whether somebody is assessing or reassessing or getting out. Since Iowa, we have been asked at every election ‘Are you getting out now?’ NO. The answer is NO. We are in it until the convention.”
Jane Sanders in that one paragraph described a derelict and dysfunctional media as she shot back that Bernie has no intentions of dropping out of the race irrespective of outcome.