Is ‘crazy’ Bernie trying to tear the Democrats apart?

Bernie Sanders needs a wing and a prayer to overtake Joe Biden in the delegate count. Last week’s resounding defeat in Michigan, a state that represents the working-class voter Democrats must pick off from Donald Trump if they hope to reclaim the White House in November, was a bad omen for the Sanders campaign and a metaphorical nail in his coffin. The next month of primaries is going to be absolutely brutal for the Vermont senator, whose approval ratings among African-Americans, Americans over the age of 45, and suburbanites is below sea-level.

Sanders knows he’s on borrowed time and already surely realises he has lost the Democratic presidential primary to Joe Biden. So the audience-free debate in Washington, D.C. tonight was less about winning delegates and more about using the forum as an opportunity to move Biden closer to the left. The old revolutionary had nothing left to lose and laid it all on the line, aggressively needling Biden on every issue imaginable and treating the two-term vice president as if he were the defendant on the witness stand.