Bernie Sanders says he's moving ahead with his Dem campaign

While acknowledging his deficit in the Democratic race, Bernie Sanders said on March 11 he's pressing ahead with his presidential campaign at least long enough to debate Joe Biden this weekend and try to force him to answer questions about economic inequality and the country's fraying social safety net.

The Vermont senator offered no further details on what his campaign may look like before or after he and Biden the last two major candidates left in the Democratic presidential nomination spar on March 15 night on stage in Arizona.

And that will continue to raise questions as unlikely as it may seem less than two weeks after losing his front-runner status about how long Sanders will persist against increasingly daunting odds.

Sanders addressed reporters after offering no public statements on March 11 night, when he suffered a devastating primary defeat in Michigan and losses in Missouri, Idaho and Mississippi at the hands of Biden. Sanders noted that he won North Dakota and the continuing count in Washington state remained close.

But he admitted he was trailing badly, perhaps prohibitively, in the race to secure enough delegates to secure the nomination before the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee.

"While our campaign has won the ideological debate, we are losing the debate over electability," Sanders said, meaning Democrats think Biden has a better chance of beating President Donald Trump in the fall. "That is what millions of Democrats and independents today believe." Sanders was quick to add that he believes he is the stronger Democrat t

He promised to question Biden about millions of Americans who don't have health insurance, a criminal justice system he said unfairly targets and punishes minorities and...