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Bernie Sanders’ presidential aspirations are all but finished. Despite once again spending more of that evil ol’ capital he rails against, Sanders has racked up a series of humiliating defeats in the Democratic primaries. His chances of upsetting Joe Biden now are next-to-zero.
Unless he’s planning to be the oldest candidate since 85-year-old Peter Cooper ran for the Greenback Party in 1876, Sanders, who’ll be 82 by the next election rolls around, can abandon any hope of ever occupying the Oval Office.
Joe Biden is almost certain to become the Democratic nominee for president after another dominant series of primary triumphs.
Biden’s big wins in Michigan, Missouri and Mississippi coming so soon after last week’s Super Tuesday triumph makes Sanders’ path to the nomination almost impossible.
Sanders could choose to hang on to the last minute, but the demographics are all against him.
[H]is last stand will take place a week from now on 17th March when four States, including the three delegates-rich states of Florida, Illinois and Ohio hold primaries with a whopping 577 delegates at stake.
Except that polls indicate that Biden is trouncing him in Florida, while midwest voters are also deserting him. Sanders has also spectacularly lost black voters, which doesn’t bode well for Illinois. In fact, Sanders’ primary has been embarrassingly bad – worse even than in 2016.
On every metric Sanders is doing worse so far in this campaign than he did against Clinton in 2016, a race that he eventually lost.
For example, Biden easily won Missouri on Wednesday but in 2016 Sanders went within a whisker of winning the state against Clinton.
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The BernieBros can type up a storm on the internet, but they aren’t much chop at actually voting. Even left-inclined Democrats, such as voted for Elizabeth Warren, are turning to Biden.
In fact, Sanders’ base is deserting him in droves.
In a further blow to Bernie Sanders, CNN exit polls show the voters who got Joe Biden over the line in Michigen were from the same groups that back Mr Sanders in 2016.
Around two-thirds or more of Mr Biden’s core voter base, older voters, black voters, and moderates supported him in Michigan, but he also performed better than expected among men without a college degree, the group that originally supported Mr Sanders.
As I previously asked, does this mean that the Democrats are finally drifting back to the centre?
Sanders bet everything on the hope that the Democratic Party’s shift to the left since Barack Obama would mean that this was finally his time to become the nominee. Instead, his campaign has only revealed how dominant the moderates are over the liberals in the party[…]
Early exit polls suggest that the Democratic voter pool this year is older and less liberal than in the 2016 presidential primaries.
In key states, self-described “liberals” have declined, while “moderates” and “conservatives” are growing.
Finally, it seems that Biden has found the perfect excuse for Democrats’ lacklustre rallies.
After canceling his primary night event in Cleveland out of “an abundance of concerns” related to coronavirus, Mr Biden will instead deliver remarks tonight in Philadelphia. However there will be no audience at the National Constitution Centre, with only a handful of staff members witnessing Mr Biden’s speech.
Mr Biden and Bernie Sanders will also have no audience during their debate this Sunday.
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Will they even notice?
Meanwhile, Biden’s record of gaffes just gets worse.
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