Bernie Sanders doesn’t have to drop out if he thinks Trump will win anyway

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Bernie Sanders is getting crushed in the Democratic primary by Joe Biden. On Tuesday, Sanders suffered 20-plus percentage point defeats in Illinois and Florida, the two biggest prizes of March 17.

The most generous interpretation of Sanders’s refusal to drop out of the Democratic race is that he’s continuing his principled mission to pull the party to the left. But, even if that’s true, it’s going to come at great, great cost to the eventual nominee, Joe Biden.

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