Bottom line of the pitch will be: "Bernie, if you win the nomination and take it, it will split the Democratic Party and ensure a Republican victory in November. Do you really want to crash the car?"
Now I may be wrong, and perhaps Bernie Sanders will say: "f*ck you and the limos you rode in on. I'm going to win this election, create a political revolution, and change the direction of this country--your mayors and governors and NGOs and labor unions and newspapers and television stations be damned. It's on." -- but, mmm, I don't think so.
You can say that's just cynical old me, and I may be and hope I am wrong, but I contend that it's reasonable to infer from Bernie Sanders's political history, and from the position he has put himself in (an integral part of Democratic Party politics!), and from what he has said during this election, that his main goal is to prevent a Republican victory, and that if he thinks his presence in the race will risk that, he will find a way to get back to being America's favorite "socialist" senator.
Politics. It's a dog-eat-dog world.
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