Liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman accused Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of “whining” anytime he loses a primary contest to front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Sanders on Sunday predicted that the Democratic convention in July will be “contested,” meaning that it still won’t be clear by then that she is the nominee, and that he will challenge her for the nomination.
Krugman wrote in a blog post Monday that Sanders is in a pattern of complaining anytime he loses a contest and that it is “blowing his own chances for a positive legacy” when he eventually concedes the race.
“What we’re getting instead is an epic descent into whining,” he wrote. “[Sanders] dismissed Clinton victories driven by black voters as products of the conservative Deep South; he suggested that his defeat in New York was unfair because it was a closed primary; … then, with the big loss in the mid-Atlantic primaries,he has turned to a sort of fact-free complaint that any process under which Bernie Sanders loses is ipso facto unfair, and superdelegates should choose him despite a 3 million vote deficit.”
Sanders currently has 1,357 delegates to Clinton’s 2,165. It takes 2,383 to win the party’s nomination.
