Let's talk about people who would like to be in that role perhaps in uh well maybe eight months or so. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Let's bring in Mark Halprin. He is the co host, with all due respect, co managing editor Bloomberg Politics, and of course, Bloomberg's with all due respect can be seen every week night at five pm Wall Street Tom on Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg One in Washington, d C. Mark Halprin, go ahead, Clinton Sanders division.
You know, it may not be the absolute lowest point between them, but it's a pretty low point, based on conflict of her state party meeting out in Las Vegas, based on Senator Sanders persisting very doggedly and saying he wants to fight this as the convention, let all voters vote, and basically the fact that he continues to drive her
to the left. You know you're here. You hear her supporters say all the time, Well, there's really no difference between her and Senator Standers on the issues, and I don't think that's the place she wants to be as she starts to try to think more about a general election. So Mark, Bernie Sanders saying he can win the California primary, and I must say, you know, he's certainly racked up a lot of delicates, So I think that's I mean, whether he's close enough to really overcome Hillary. It's pretty
impressive how many delicates he's won. Is there anything that could happen that would put him in a dead heat with Hillary when they get to the convention, Well, he can be awfully close to her, and she will need the support of those super delegates, the unelected UH people, party officials and elected office holders who aren't elected as delegates the convention to be her automatic delegates. She's gonna need some of those to get over the tops of
the majority. So I'd say the only scenario would be that he finishes very strong in the remaining contest, nears the gap a little bit, and then something happens, the scandal with the Clintons, or something else unforeseeable, where the superdelegates defect in large numbers. Uh. He points out correctly that in a lot of national and key state polls
he does better against Donald Trump than she does. I don't think that will be enough, that argument will be enough to persuade enough super delegates to defect from her,
where most of them already are publicly to him. Mark, how Barbara Boxer, Senator from California, said that she feared for her safety, tell us why that statement is concerning, at least for some She was speaking on behalf of Hillary Clint ad at this meeting in Las Vegas at the state Party convention UH last weekend, and as we saw on the Republican side, when it looked for a time like Senator Crews might be closing the gap on
enough to stop Donald Trump from getting majority. These delegates are allocated, not in most cases on the night of the primary, the night of the caucuses, but that's the
first step in a long process. And the Sanders folks were trying to improve their position from what happened on election day a few months ago to today where they hope to bring a few more delegates away from Secretary Clint and then Barbara Boxer there faced the wrath of some very energized supporters of Bernie Sanders who bowed her and and perhaps more UH in order to express their displeasure at the party establishment and the Clinton forces that
she represented. There. So Mark explained to us why, for for for a long time in the Republican campaign. Uh, people talked about a broker convention. Why is nobody talking about a broker convention for the Democrats? Because Hillary Clinton already has enough super delegates and elected pledge delegates that Bernie Sanders can't get enough delegates and the remaining contest
to stop her. So the mathematics just aren't there. And that exists largely as Senator Sanders will tell you, because Secretary Clinton built up a lead when the Southern States voted with a lot of African American voters whose support he did not win in anything like sufficient numbers that gave her a delegate lead that under the Democratic rules are very hard to come back because of proportional representation, there's no winner take all states, so there's no way
to score big batches of delegates and one fell swoop. So she's got this lead and mathematically there's nothing he can do. As I said before, it would take an intervening event to change the dynamics where the super dogates
could swing things this way. Any chance that there's going to be demonstrations or any kind of protest at the Democratic Convention in July, what people are trying to play that down and say, you know, certainly no violence, but at this point you're you're um, You're not able to identify really anyone with the possible exception of Mitt Romney with the kind of prominence within the Republican Party that Bernie Sanders has with a Democratic Party to be an
opposition force within the party at their convention. So I think whether Bernie Sanders comes around a bit or not before the convention, he is going to go to the convention basically saying my side is not happy. My side wants the platform to say change. My side wants to relook at how we pick our nominee. And I think that's gonna lead to, if not formal protests, is gonna need a lot of a lot of unhappiness in and outside the hall in Philadelphia, which could be greater than
what we see against Donald Trump in Cleveland. Mark, real quick here, just give me the name of one of your favorite guests tonight. I'm, with all due respect, one of my favorite guests. We're gonna have a Congressman Ryan, not Paul Ryan, but Congressman Tim Ryan, Democrat from Ohio who's a big clayoly Clinton supporter, and we're going to talk to him about how Clinton supporters are dealing with this incredible unhappiness that exists on the left from Sanders supporters.
Mark halpr And Co. He's the host of Bloomberg TVs. With all due respect, you can catch him five o'clock Wall Street Time tonight. I'm Kathleen Haze along with Pim Fox, and this is taking Stock on Bloomberg Radio.