 So, all throughout the 2020 Democratic Party primary, we were told by pundits in the mainstream media that, you know, we can't vote for someone like Bernie Sanders because he's too far left and he's just not electable. So you really instead should opt for someone like Joe Biden because he's definitely electable. Except now that more and more people are voting, they're realizing that they're not actually receptive to that message. And as more and more polls show that Bernie's actually the strongest against Donald Trump, I mean, that argument now has no legs to stand on it, never did, but now more so than ever. So what we see is the media quickly trying to drum up some new narrative to concern troll about Bernie Sanders chances in hopes that they, you know, have some way of stopping Bernie Sanders. So the argument that they're using now is that if you vote for Bernie Sanders, maybe he can beat Donald Trump. But think about the effect that he'll have on down ticket Democrats who are running in these really tight races for the House and Senate. The problem is that this also doesn't have any legs, one, because it's not backed in any statistics whatsoever. And two, because Democrats are now saying, actually, that's not true because understand if you are in Democratic leadership, if you're, you know, a Democratic senator, you don't want to spook the donors. You don't want to tell them that, Hey, if this guy who's probably going to be the nominee is going to hurt all of us, they're not going to donate to your campaign because these campaign contributors, they donate often times with the expectation that they'll be able to buy influence. So if they think that you're going to lose, they're not going to donate to you. So Democrats have a vested interest in making it seem as if, you know, the House and the Senate aren't lost causes. And on top of that, perhaps more importantly, they are embracing Bernie Sanders to an extent. They're not endorsing him yet, right? But members of the Democratic Party establishment are not running away from Bernie Sanders as they previously were. So it's really nice to see this narrative get debunked as quickly as it came up. But just watch what Chris Murphy said in an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN. He dismissed this notion that Bernie Sanders isn't electable. And he also dismissed the notion that Bernie Sanders would hurt down ticket Democrats. Do you have any concerns about Bernie Sanders as a Democratic nominee in terms of his ability to beat President Trump in November? Or how much he might hurt down ballot Democrats who are in more moderate districts? I do not. I think Bernie Sanders will beat Donald Trump. I think Joe Biden would beat Donald Trump. I think Elizabeth Warren would beat Donald Trump. What we need is a candidate who has a base of enthusiastic supporters who's authentic, who speaks truth to power, who can throw a punch and who can take a punch. I think anybody that's polling in the top four or five fits that bill. But Bernie's base of support, the enthusiasm behind him, I think speaks to the strength of his candidacy both in the primary, but as a general election candidate as well. Are you, that was very strong. I mean, are you endorsing him or are you supporting him? No, I'm not endorsing anyone. I think that this primary is going to be a test of who is ready, who's tough enough to take on president. So this is a really big deal because previously, you know, when this question was posed to a Democrat and be fair, I don't know what Chris Murphy said before, but when this question was previously posed to Democrats, their answer usually was, well, you know, let's just wait and see who wins and we'll go from there. We'll wait and see how the process will play out. But now they're actually responding directly to the prospect of Bernie Sanders becoming the nomination, which tells us a key thing that they're starting to grapple with the reality of a Bernie nomination. And they know that the writings on the wall, he may very well be the presumptive nominee after Super Tuesday and they can no longer trash him. Otherwise, all of this enthusiasm that's behind him isn't going to help them, right? And you want to write on Bernie Sanders' coattails and Chris Murphy was correct to point out that Bernie has a lot of enthusiasm behind him. So if this person with a massive movement has all of this energy behind him and you start dogging on him, well, that's just that's not going to help your case. And I don't know if he's up, you know, for a reelection to be fair, but it hurts Democrats if they dog on the person who's at the top of the ticket. So they're starting to accept the reality that Bernie Sanders may very well be the Democratic Party's nominee. This is huge and it may seem like I'm reading too much into this. But hold, because I've got more on that. But I want to get to a specific quote from Chris Murphy here. He says, Bernie's base of support, the enthusiasm behind him speaks to the strength of his candidacy in the primary and the general election as well. And this right here, like I shouldn't have to give him credit for saying this because it's just common sense. But yeah, it doesn't take a Democratic strategist who's paid seven figures a year to tell you that Democrats win elections when turnout is high. And the base is excited to come out and vote. That's what led Obama to victory. And that's what's going to lead Bernie to victory if he's at the top of that ticket. So this is really what it's all about. Like all this worry about Democrats losing the House and the Senate. If Bernie Sanders is at the top of the ticket, they should be enthusiastic about him being at the top of the ticket, because if he actually brings out this base that he's trying to bring out younger voters, disaffected non-voters, then guess what happens when they're already out to vote for Bernie Sanders? They're going to vote down the ticket for Democrats in the House and the Senate. And Bernie would campaign for them if he's the Democratic Party nominee. So it'd be moronic for them to continue dogging on Bernie Sanders. And the fact that he is so close to clinching this nomination and the way that they are responding tells us that really this may become a reality soon. But the real question is what are Democratic Party leaders saying? What's Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer saying? Well, pretty much the same thing. They're not running away from Bernie Sanders. They're grappling with the reality of a Bernie Sanders nomination. As Marty Johnson of the Hill reports, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday said she would be comfortable with Senator Bernie Sanders as the Democratic presidential nominee in November. The Congresswoman was asked the question as she was leaving a closed door meeting in the House basement Wednesday morning. She replied with one word, yes. Other congressional Democrats have bucked at the idea of Sanders a long time independent and self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist being the party's nominee in the general election. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday also suggested that he would be comfortable with the Vermont senator as his party's nominee. Look, the bottom line is very simple. Schumer said Tuesday when asked about Sanders' praise of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro's literacy program. We have a lot of strong nominees. I'm not supporting one over the other. But I think every one of them will be President Trump, he said. So first of all, again, this is partially tactical because they don't want to spook donors. They don't want to make it seem as if they're going to lose under any circumstances. But second of all, you have to listen to the words that they're using. They are directly responding to these questions. When Nancy Pelosi was asked, would you be would you be comfortable with Bernie Sanders as the Democratic Party's nominee? She says, yes, she's not trying to pivot and say, well, look, it's so early in the process, we'll wait to see how it plays out. She's answering directly, which tells you this may be a watershed moment where the Democratic Party is now having to pivot. Like they're not going to embrace Bernie Sanders with open arms. They will probably still try to steal it with him at the convention in Milwaukee. But they know there's a very large possibility that Bernie Sanders could become the Democratic Party nominee. Rather, he wins a very large plurality or outright majority. They know it's possible, if not likely. So now they're starting to pivot. They're going to have to grapple with the reality, like it or not, that Bernie Sanders may be the new leader of the Democratic Party. And, you know, even if deep down it kills them. Well, the fact remains that they have no choice in this matter. The base has spoken and you can only piss off the base for so long. So now, in spite of the mainstream media saying over and over again that Bernie's not electable or that Bernie Sanders is going to hurt down ticket Democrats, you have the leaders of the Democratic Party. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi come out and say, I'm fine with Bernie as the nominee. This really is huge. And I know that to people who don't follow politics as much as I do. This seems insignificant, but it really is a big thing for them to not pivot here. For them to just say, sure, I'm comfortable with Bernie. They know what's coming. And let me remind you, Nancy Pelosi was part of the early 2019 how to stop Bernie Sanders meetings with Pete Buttigieg and Neera Tanden and also Chuck Schumer, I believe, and Terry McAuliffe. So she doesn't want Bernie Sanders to be the nominee. This is something that she's saying now because she doesn't have a choice. You can't spit in the faces of people who are enthusiastically supporting your party's nominee, who's the new leader of your nominee that would hurt your chances as well. And Nancy Pelosi, if she cares about anything, it's raising a lot of money. It's raising a lot of money. So if donors see that you piss off the base and they think you might lose. Well, they're not going to donate to you. Nancy Pelosi is well aware of this. So now getting to that whole new talking point about Bernie Sanders will hurt down ticket Democrats. On MSNBC of all places, I saw the best debunking of this new talking point. And it came from Chris Hayes, who is probably the most sane person on MSNBC. Just look at some of the evidence that we have. And I'm telling you, it's not in the data. It just isn't. You're the head to head match house between President Trump and the Democratic presidential candidates. He is consistently in poll, after poll, after poll at or near the top of all of them. All the candidates who are characterized often as more electable are lower. Sanders has higher favorability ratings than any other Democratic presidential candidate in the field. His campaign has raised more money. His campaigns cash on hand in the latest FEC filing, more than double the other non-billionaire candidates. And his ability to raise money is not nothing when it comes to electability and possibly a billion dollars being dropped on his head. Now, there are swing district congressional members in Congress who really do worry about Sanders' effects on them, about being dragged down on those down ballot races. And I got to say they might be right. They know their districts well. They also might be wrong. I don't know. I do know I definitely heard that a lot in 2016 from a lot of swing Republican members. As political scientist Kyle Condick points out in the New York Times op-ed, those fears about down ballot drags might be overstated. But I'll open the data. We'll see. I mean, look, left wing candidates sometimes lose. They sometimes get drugged. George McGovern wasn't a left winger. He was a liberal, but he famously lost in a landslide defeat to Richard Nixon in 1972 after his insurgent, progressive campaign managed to capture the Democratic Party nomination. And that's a trauma that has stayed with people for generations, understandably so. If you can point me to the data that we have, where Sanders is seven of points behind and head-to-head matchups with Trump, I think there'd be real reason to worry. But it's just not what the data says. If you don't like Bernie Sanders, because you don't think you'd be a good president, then that's your choice. You should act on that as a citizen. But if you are freaking out because he is so obviously an electoral disaster, I'm here to tell you it's just not what the information that we have now suggests. That was absolutely fantastic. So credit where it's due. Chris Hayes should probably be worried that MSNBC will fire him after telling the truth about anything, but credit where it's due. And this George McGovern example, it's always been incredibly stupid to me because that happened 50 years ago. And the polls always show that Nixon was going to beat George McGovern handily. That's not true now. And rather than going back 50 years, why wouldn't you just go back four years to see what type of candidate can beat Donald Trump? Clearly a moderate loss to him, right? So it's just, they're literally trying to figure out any possible way to dissuade voters from opting for Bernie Sanders. But finally, we're not thinking about what would appease the pundits on mainstream news. We're voting in a way that makes us feel good because we know Bernie Sanders will fight for us. So this really is I think a watershed moment and you love to see it.