Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, sought to pre-empt questions about Sanders’ future by sending a statement to reporters Wednesday morning implying he has no immediate plans to drop out
.Instead, after the Vermont senator lost Florida, Illinois and Arizona by double digits, he spent his Wednesday shooting down rumors about his campaign folding, canceling all of his digital ad spending, and lashing out at a reporter who asked about what he often refers to as “political gossip.”
In an email to supporters, Shakir was even more blunt. “No sugarcoating it, last night did not go the way we wanted,” he said. After likely voting on coronavirus legislation, he said Sanders would fly from Washington, D.C. to his home Burlington, where he would "begin holding conversations with supporters to get input and assess the path forward for our campaign."
Even so, Sanders’ nosedive has led to intense questioning from the media about the future of his campaign, culminating in an inaccurate report on Axios that said he was suspending it. And the wall of pressure from centrist Democrats to abandon his bid for the White House has only intensified following his losses Tuesday. Both factors are likely to aggravate Sanders, who has long brawled with moderates and the press.
“The campaign is so useful for building lists, leadership, and organizational infrastructure that I think it’d be a big blow for the left if he dropped out any time before the convention,” a Sanders aide said. Charles Chamberlain, chairman of the progressive political action committee Democracy for America, said that while Sanders’ path to the nomination is “significantly steeper” after Tuesday, “the reality is this is a contest that has changed overnight repeatedly throughout the entire primary, and no one really knows what’s going to happen moving forward.”
Sanders’ concern with the pandemic sweeping the world was evident on Wednesday, when he snapped at a reporter who asked about timing on his decision. “I’m dealing with a fucking global crisis,” he. "Right now I'm trying to do my best to make sure that we don't have an economic meltdown and that people don't die. Is that enough for you to keep me busy for today?"
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