Meghan McCain deemed Bernie Sanders supporters the “dirtiest thugs” on the internet less than a day before Super Tuesday.
The ladies of The View discussed the possible outcomes of Super Tuesday given the close delegate counts between Sanders and Joe Biden. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg said she prefers the consistency of career politicians as candidates. McCain acknowledged this point and argued that Sanders’s socialist vision for the United States is not what most people want.
“I think you’re indicative of a lot of the American public though, and I do think when you’re talking about Bernie Sanders completely remaking and reanimating not just our healthcare system but the United States of America as it has existed since its incarnation, people get very nervous right now,” McCain said.
The conservative said Super Tuesday will be a “cage match” between Sanders and Biden and warned that the Vermont senator’s supporters would not go down without a fight.
“I stand by the fact that it’s going to be a cage match. This is his Alamo. This is his absolute last chance to become president. Him and his supporters are the dirtiest thugs I have ever seen on all of social media,” McCain said. “They are not going to let this go. They’re not going to let it go out easy.”
She added, “The argument between the AOCs of the party and the more traditional Democrats, I think it’s going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.”
Sanders distanced himself from so-called “Bernie Bros” at a recent debate, noting that he has millions of online supporters and that “99.9% of them are decent people.” He compared the issue of online attacks from some aggressive supporters of his political campaign to Russian efforts to stoke division in the U.S. while also trying to disown those supporters.
McCain recently confronted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a surrogate for Sanders, about the online hostility she has faced from Sanders supporters.
“The one thing that connects women on the Left and the women on the Right … is the abuse that we have all been subjected to by Bernie Bros. It is, by far, of anything I’ve ever done in my entire life, the most violent, the most misogynistic, the most sexist, the most harmful,” McCain said.
Ocasio-Cortez blamed the harassment on internet anonymity rather than it being a problem exclusive to Sanders’s supporters. “It is difficult to control,” the New York Democrat said.
Sanders leads the total delegate count in the Democratic primary contest after winning in New Hampshire and Nevada, but Biden closed the gap after winning in South Carolina.
