US Election: A Weak End At Bernie’s

US Election: A Weak End At Bernie’s

Nothing has changed a week on from Super Tuesday. Will Bernie quit, or is a scorched-earth primary in progressives’ interests?

It was in Michigan four years ago where Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton by 17,000 votes – a preview of his Rust Belt appeal that postponed her ‘coronation’ with later upsets in Wisconsin and Indiana. But this year, the pressure for him to cut his losses will be much greater after Joe Biden’s 53-37 victory in the Great Lakes State. The former VP also won Missouri with 60% of the vote and scored 81% in Mississippi (whose registered Democrats are 71% African-American). While Sen. Sanders won North Dakota’s caucus, its rewards are small and Biden appears to have gained an equal number of delegates from his participation. Biden reversed another 2016 Bernie win in Idaho; observers believe that Sanders was not helped by the state changing its format from a caucus to a primary in the intervening period.

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