„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.