MSNBC host Chris Matthews offered a rare on-air apology to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., after his remarks invoking the rise of Nazi Germany following the 2020 front-runner‘s victory in Nevada sparked major backlash.
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MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews Compared Bernie Sanders‘ Nevada Performance To The Nazi Invasion Of France
„I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940,“ said Matthews, „And the general, Reynaud, calls up Churchill and says, ‚It‘s over.‘ And Churchill says, ‚How can that be? You‘ve got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?‘ He said, ‚It‘s over.'“
Matthews added, „So I had that suppressed feeling.“
The comment prompted outcry not just from Sanders‘ supporters; many people on Twitter described the reference to a Nazi invasion to discuss a prominent Jewish candidate as distasteful.