Paid CNN Employee Endorses Joe Biden On-Air, Urges Bernie Bros to Join Him

Nicholas Fondacaro | March 11, 2020
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Former 2020 Democratic hopeful Andrew Yang had been a paid CNN commentator for only a few weeks before deciding that their Democratic primary coverage of the first Mini-Super Tuesday was the right time for him to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden live on-air.

Yang was teed up by host Anderson Cooper, who noted that Yang had spent a lot of time writing stuff down. “I believe that Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee. And I’ve always said I’m going to support whoever the nominee is. So, I hereby am endorsing Joe Biden to be not just the nominee for the Democratic Party, but the next president of the United States,” Yang immediately responded.

In an appeal to those still not in the Biden camp, Yang reminded viewers that he was a Sanders supporter in 2016:

And I say this having supported Bernie Sanders in 2016. Bernie was an inspiration for me, inspired my run. But the math says Joe is our prohibitive nominee. We need to bring the party together. We need to start working on defeating Donald Trump in the fall. I've had many personal conversations with Joe about the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on the middle class. I believe that he's the right man for the job to help us not just defeat Donald Trump, but govern the country in the years ahead.

In response, Cooper and chief political analyst Gloria Borger asked that Yang make the case for Biden to his fellow Bernie Bros. “His heart is in the right place. He's a really, really patriotic public servant, decent man. He wants to do right by the American people. To me, a lot of it’s about getting real solutions in place that more and more Americans feel like they will actually improve their day-to-day lives,” Yang said.

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