Staffer settles questions over Bernie Sanders' suit at the Democratic debate
Bernie Sanders sent the Twittersphere into orbit about the color of the suit he was wearing: Was it brown? Was it blue? Was it black?
What Color Is Bernie Sanders' Suit? Twitter Debates During #DemDebate https://t.co/3Wfv69OK25 pic.twitter.com/l4hJqF5G6E
— Producer Booster (@ProducerBooster) March 10, 2016
The social media stir represents the closest thing in the presidential campaign thus far to the #TheDress. Just about a year ago millions online disagreed over the colors in a striped dress: was it blue and black or white and gold?
Is Bernie Sanders' suit brown? Or is this like you know what and it's actually yellow. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/kuLqC42Whi
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) March 10, 2016
Here's someone who saw blue:
Bernie's suit is blue in the long-shot.#DemDebate
— Elizabeth West (@Limeylizzie) March 10, 2016
I don't care what the Beltway media says, that Bernie suit was brown!. #DemDebate
— Jeff Gauvin (@JeffersonObama) March 10, 2016
bernIE'S SUIT WAS BLUE????? #DemDebate
— nice (@rorocutiegirl) March 10, 2016
Before the night was over, Sanders' suit even had its own Twitter handle, BerniesSuit.
The Sanders campaign's rapid response director, Mike Casca, tweeted about the issue last night, though it seemed even he got the color wrong on the first try:
the suit senator sanders is wearing tonight is black*
— mike casca (@cascamike) March 10, 2016
*corrects for wrong color.