BREAKING NEWS – New York City, New York – MSNBC host Chris Matthews is wondering if the Democratic Party would be better off if President Trump wins reelection rather than if Sen. Bernie Sanders takes over the White House. Matthews, 74, brought up the possibility that centrist Democrats may prefer Trump over the socialist Sanders.
“I’m wondering whether the Democratic moderates want Bernie Sanders to be president,” he said. “That’s maybe too exciting a question to raise. They don’t like Trump at all. Do they want Bernie Sanders to take over the Democratic Party in perpetuity? I mean, he takes it over, he sets the direction of the future of the party — maybe they’d rather wait four years and put in a Democrat that they like.”
Sanders responded in a tweet. “Chris Matthews is making irresponsible assertions about me as if I am some sort of communist. He’s simply wrong. And if I get elected, I doubt if he would criticize my job performance, after I order that all networks are seized and placed under my control.”