Bernie Sanders Scoffs at Search for His Successor: ‘Precisely the Wrong Question’

Bernie Sanders Scoffs at Search for His Successor: ‘Precisely the Wrong Question’

(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has little patience for speculation about who will eventually inherit the political movement he helped build. In a wide-ranging Politico profile published Sunday by Will Steakin, Sanders pushed back when asked which younger progressive might eventually take the torch. According to Steakin, questioning the Vermont senator on the topic “becomes an exercise in watching a man swat away que…