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[–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Going into super Tuesday, it was clear that Bernie had the lead. Most of the other candidates absolutely tanked, and afterward dropped out and all of them endorsed Biden. Then fucking Bloomberg joins the race out of nowhere, spends a bunch of money, muddies the waters, then drops out after hardly any time and endorses Biden. And when the DNC super delegates decided they'd go for Biden no matter what, it was clear what was going to happen.

Tell me with a straight face that people at the DNC didn't contact the other candidates and make it clear that they wouldn't have a future in the Democratic party unless they dropped and endorsed Biden.

The DNC did not want anyone but Biden to win the nomination, and they made sure it happened. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/31/dnc-superdelegates-110083

[–] Harpuajim@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was endorsed by the dropouts because any political operative could see that Biden was the best candidate to beat trump. Sanders core support is from white liberals and there aren't enough of them to win a presidential election. Minorites and moderates have no interest in him and that was shown in the primary results.

Sanders would have been stomped by trump on 2016 or 2020

Would have been nice to see if that is true. Sanders had much stronger support across the aisle in 2016. We'll never know though.