CNN's Dana Bash Asks Bernie Sanders If He Supports Assisted Suicide for Some Reason

[DonViejo]

By Tommy Christopher June 9th, 2019, 12:37 pm

Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders fielded a question from out of left field when CNN’s Dana Bash asked if he supports a federal law permitting assisted suicide.

On Sunday morning’s edition of CNN’s State of the Union without Jake Tapper, Senator Sanders sat for a lengthy two-segment interview with Bash, and by the end of the conversation, the questions got strange.

“I want to ask you about something that happened in Maine recently,” Bash said. “The state legislature passed a bill effectively legalizing assisted suicide for patients with terminally ill diseases, and if the governor signs it, Maine would be the 8th state to enact that legislation, including your home state, as you know, of Vermont.”

“Do you support federal legislation to legalize assisted suicide?” Bash asked.

After a lengthy pause, Sanders replied “Look, that’s a very difficult issue, and I think that is an issue right now that I am comfortable seeing in the hands of the states.”

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[tblue37]

1. They throw these polarizing get irrelevant questions at Democratic candidates, to get

them on video on matters that will energize their opponents' base.

[Voltaire2]

2. Pretty good answer.

[MineralMan]

3. Punting is about the only sensible thing to do with that question.

It's really one of those "no good answer" questions for politicians.

[JI7]

4. Dana Bash is one of the shittiest "reporters" i have ever seen

she just sucks so bad.