<p>Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is a self-described &ldquo;democratic socialist,&rdquo; but should he run as an Independent? Donald Trump&rsquo;s audience responded with booming laugher when the billionaire made the suggestion. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I think Bernie Sanders should run as an Independent. I think he&rsquo;d do great,&rdquo; said Trump in New York on Tuesday night as the results came in from the day&rsquo;s five primaries. ;Trump proclaimed himself the apparent GOP nominee after claiming victory in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. He says Kasich and Cruz should give up. At this point, there&rsquo;s simply no way the nomination can be taken from him. &ldquo;As far as I&rsquo;m concerned, it&rsquo;s over.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Trump reiterated his message to Sanders on Twitter: ;&ldquo;Bernie Sanders has been treated terribly by the Democrats &ndash; both with delegates and otherwise. He should show them, and run as an Independent!&rdquo;</p>
<p>Bernie&#8217;s ;wife Jane didn&rsquo;t appreciate the joke. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been very clear right from the beginning that we will not play the role of spoiler,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;The reason that he was active and he decided to run in the Democratic Party was just that: we cannot afford a Republican in the White House. We cannot afford a Republican appointing Supreme Court justices. So Bernie will not be running as an independent.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>No Independent candidate has ever done well. Senator Sanders knows as well as you and I that such a switch would only serve to steal votes from Hillary. <em>But it&#8217;s still funny! ;</em></p>
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