Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesTopline: MSNBC Host Chris Matthews is facing intense backlash and calls to resign over comments he made on air comparing Bernie Sanders’s Nevada victory to the Nazi invasion of France during World War II. Matthews’s comments drew immediate criticism from the Sanders campaign and progressives who decried the Democratic establishment, with some calling on Matthews to resign. Mattews has criticized Sanders on air before and said he worries about the Democratic Party electing a “socialist,” drawing the ire of progressives. “Why is Chris Matthews on this air talking about the victory [of] Bernie Sanders, who had kin murdered in the Holocaust, analogizing it to the Nazi conquest of France?” he said. David Sirota, a speechwriter for Sanders, tweeted “Bernie is Jewish and his family was killed by the Nazis.

Source: Forbes February 23, 2020 20:28 UTC