Susan Sarandon tells Stephen Colbert why she had to 'break up' with Hillary, fall for Bernie

Stephen Colbert showed a picture on Wednesday's Late Show of actress Susan Sarandon — a high-profile Bernie Sanders supporter — standing next to Hillary Clinton. "Look how happy we were — and then I had to break up with her," Sarandon said. When Colbert asked what happened, she said it was Clinton's vote for the Iraq War, against Sarandon's counsel, and then her later promotion of fracking and Monsanto. Sanders, on the other hand, has "moral judgment beforehand, not when it's safe," she said, and he opposed the Iraq War and also trade deals.

So Colbert held up a photo of Sarandon looking up at Sanders. "This looks less like a political follower and like a painting of the Virgin Mary being visited by the angel Gabriel," he said, showing another photo that turned Sarandon into the Virgin of Guadalupe. "Oh, I want to take that home," Sarandon said, laughing. "May I take that home?" Sarandon laid out Sanders' path to victory, and when Colbert noted that any victory would require the superdelegates that Sanders has railed against as undemocratic, she said, "Yeah, we're going to have to have a contested" convention. Finally, Colbert asked the big question: "If Bernie is not the nominee, would you vote for Hillary Clinton?" "I'm not dealing with that yet!" Sarandon answered. But she did say she would not vote for Donald Trump, probably. Watch below. Peter Weber

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