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00:00Senator Sanders concede and allow for the vice president to run against President Trump . This is a really good question. What we know from 2016 is that he stayed in the race for quite a long time and in effect really distracted voters from coalescing around the candidate that time . Hillary Clinton. Let's hope that we don't see a repeat performance of that although right now it's not entirely clear whether or not he is anywhere close to giving up. Well. I agree. We didn't hear from them last night either as well . What is the path forward here. I mean I understand their conventions in the summer. They don't get impeded by the virus . But what would you suggest is the primary path forward from here . Well he doesn't have a very clear path forward. And that is right. That's the reason why it makes a lot of sense for him to take a decision to step down sooner rather than later. We know that he as well as the Vice President Biden share in common the goal of beating Trump. Right. I think that's where most Democratic voters are right now. And Sanders remaining in the race continued continuing to divide. Voters particularly those on the left is ultimately harmful to that particular goal . What does the current virus do actually to to the chances that President Trump gets re-elected. Well this is a really good question. I mean it will depend quite a lot on where we are with our corona virus over the summer and particularly going into the fall. I mean as we all know the incumbent in general has the wind at his back. Right. He's most likely to be reelected just based on past precedent. But what we're seeing now is real concern about the government's management of Corona virus. We will likely see increasing numbers of schools close of people being forced to work from home. And and likewise an impact on the economy. All of that is a real wildcard for President Trump's re-election .

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Will Bernie Sanders Concede?

Amy Pope, associate fellow of the U.S. and Americas programme at Chatham House, discusses the race for the Democratic presidential nomination between former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. She also comments on the coronavirus and its potential impact on President Donald Trump's re-election chances in an interview on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)

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