Rachel Maddow: Bernie Sanders Campaign Rewrites History Of Losses [View all]

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Even Rachel Maddow thinks the Bernie Sanders campaign has gone off the deep end
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With as much time as respected MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has spent cheering on the various aspects of the Bernie Sanders campaign over the past few months, it’s caused many within her audience to question if she’s lost her focus, and some have told us they’ve tuned her out entirely. But that may be about to become a moot point, because Maddow now appears to be losing patience for Sanders as he shifts his tone from idealistic to nihilistic and absurd. In fact Rachel took the Sanders campaign to task for its (false) claim this week that it wasn’t even trying to win in certain states.

The claim, which came from Bernie Sanders senior strategist Tad Devine, was that Sanders has won states in which he invested time and resources, and has lost eight key states because he wasn’t bothering to compete there to begin with. It’s not clear why such a claim was supposed to help the Sanders campaign or make him look good, but as it turns out, the claim is factually and numerically false. Rachel Maddow took particular objection to the claim and tore it apart on-air last night.

Maddow walked through the numbers demonstrating that the Bernie Sanders campaign invested more time and resources than Hillary Clinton in states like Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, and Virginia – yet Clinton won all of those states in whopping blowouts. That left Maddow to conclude that the Sanders campaign will have to “walk back” Devine’s comments for being false. She also suggested that if Sanders continues with his new strategy of trying to pressure superdelegates to hand him the nomination even though he’s far behind in regular delegates, even his own supporters may not follow him down that path.

Generally speaking, Rachel Maddow sounded borderline fed up with the direction the Bernie Sanders campaign has begun taking of late. Considering that she has been one of his biggest on-air allies in all of cable news , this can’t be a positive development for him. Her full nine minute MSNBC segment is available online, but the above referenced commentary begins at about the six minute mark.