Bernie Sanders just lost South Carolina. And he's on a plane with no internet access.

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published 28 February 2016

Bernie Sanders just lost the South Carolina primary — which seems to be pretty much what he expected.

But don't expect an on-site concession speech. In fact, if he stuck with his itinerary, the senator from Vermont is presently on a plane with no internet access to tell him the results.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.