Sanders: If Trump Wins I'll Try to Overcome My Depression and Figure Out Where We Go From There

What will Bernie Sanders do if Trump wins? "Try to overcome my depression" and "figure out where we go from there" https://t.co/sEVkMTUvXw

Bernie Sanders makes a push for Hillary Clinton on Friday's broadcast of CNN's New Day in an interview with co-host Chris Cuomo. Sanders said Democrats "have to be smarter" and that "different is not necessarily better."





CHRIS CUOMO, CNN: What if it's the first day and you have president-elect Trump, what do you do?



SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: Try to overcome my depression, and then figure out where we go from there.



CHRIS CUOMO: Except that, look, you see the polls. I mean, politicians never like polls unless they're in their favor.



BERNIE SANDERS: I see the polls.



CHRIS CUOMO: This is a knotted up contest.



It is a mood election. And the Democrats are supposed to lose by historical cycles, right? You had two terms --



BERNIE SANDERS: Here’s the other thing I would say to people --



CHRIS CUOMO: But I know people get angry when I say that. I know that all the people that support Clinton are going to come after me. They’ve got to be realistic.



BERNIE SANDERS: I’m not arguing --



CHRIS CUOMO: You're in a dead heat.



BERNIE SANDERS: Yes. I’m not arguing. The question is, could Trump win? The answer is yes of course he could. And that’s why I'm going to work as hard as I can to prevent that from happening.



This is what I would ask of the American people, and that is, and the media does not do this terribly often -- put things in contact. Do we have economic problems today? Damn right we do. How are we today when compared to when Bush left office and we were losing 800,000 jobs a month? Has Obama's economic performance been infinitely better than the trickle-down economics that we had from President Bush? Remember, you remember, that the world's financial system was on the verge of collapse. Yes?

Bernie Sanders makes a pitch for Hillary Clinton: "We have to be smarter. Different is not necessarily better" https://t.co/kAhV7kzToj — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 16, 2016

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