Former US Senate Intelligence chair Dianne Feinstein says it seems all over for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, and has urged him to consider suspending his campaign in an effort to rally behind front-runner Hillary Clinton.
The California Democratic senator made the remarks in an interview with ABC News on Sunday, as Sanders said his campaign won’t necessarily be over if he doesn’t win the California primary on June 7.
“He ought to be able to read the signposts as well as anybody else, and if he did that, he would know that it’s all but over,” Feinstein said. “I know the passion of a campaign. I know when you’re in it, and you just keep go, go, go until the last hour is there. Well, the last hour is close by.”
Clinton is maintaining a strong lead over Sanders in the Democratic presidential race, but the senator has vowed to stay in the race until the Democratic convention this summer.
Sanders, an Independent senator from…