Senate Democrats are quietly plotting how to get Bernie Sanders to drop out

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
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With the Democratic primary season nearly finished, and Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) still refusing to drop his increasingly impossible bid for the nomination, Democrats on Capitol Hill have decided to take matters into their own hands. CNN reports that senior Democrats are in "private conversations" over how to push Sanders out of the race — without it looking like they forced him out:

In a phone call last month, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid made the case to Sanders why it would make sense for him to leave the race after New Jersey and California vote on June 7, according to sources familiar with the conversation.The widespread view, according to interviews with senators, House members, and senior party officials, is that Sanders needs to see the writing on the wall himself: That he has no mathematical possibility to win the race and would be better-served to see his agenda enacted if he urged his backers to support Clinton. [CNN]

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