VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign said Sunday that it raised more than $46.5 million in February, a show of financial strength after the Vermont senator finished a distant second behind Joe Biden in South Carolina’s primary.
Fellow progressive Elizabeth Warren announced a short time later collecting a respectable $29 million last month, as she copes with a weaker South Carolina showing.
Sanders’ team said it was making television ad buys in nine more states: Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri and Washington, which vote on March 10, and Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio, which vote a week later. The campaign said it is “currently on the air in 12 out of the 14 states” that are voting on Super Tuesday, in two days.
Well I certainly wouldn't bet on any sort of Bernie collapse following a loss to Joe Biden in a state he was expected to lose (albeit by a much smaller margin). Especially since Bernie went the distance in 2016, while always coming from behind. If he comes out of Super Tuesday with the delegate lead, there is little reason to believe he won't go into the convention as the delegate leader. Why would any of his supporters peel off from the person who is still favored to win at least a plurality of the delegates.
The bigger question is whether or not the one state victory for Biden will be enough to consolidate the support of that moderate lane? Obviously he has to compete with Michael Bloomberg as well as Buttigieg and Klobuchar. While I suspect at least Klobuchar will drop out after Super Tuesday (probably just been hanging around to compete in Minnesota), but will Buttigieg and/or Bloomberg? Bloomberg has field offices across the nation and has already bought ads in states post Super Tuesday. Buttigieg is still raising considerable money and has a decent operation in place. But he probably has to do fairly well "somewhere" on Tuesday, however, or he will likely pack it in.
If I had to guess I would say that we will have no less than four candidates still kicking after Super Tuesday (Sanders, Biden, Bloomberg, and Warren). Buttigieg could go either way. Then we are starting to look at the very real possibility of a brokered convention and a just as real possibility that certain candidates will be campaigning specifically to keep Sanders from getting a majority in order to force the political showdown that could tear the Party apart.
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Sanders did well in small caucus states where organization is everything.
However, failed in the first moderately large and ideology diverse state.
Bernie is no longer a certain thing.
Like I pointed out Last week, Dizzy Lizzy, The Mayor Boi and Slow Joe are broke.
David Brooks’s account of Senator Bernie Sanders and his campaign cuts deep, because it is true, and obviously true.
"Populists like Sanders speak as if the whole system is irredeemably corrupt. Sanders was a useless House member and has been a marginal senator because he doesn’t operate within this system or believe in this theory of change.
He believes in revolutionary mass mobilization and, once an election has been won, rule by majoritarian domination. This is how populists of left and right are ruling all over the world, and it is exactly what our founders feared most and tried hard to prevent."
Brooks’s colleagues often write that the problem with the country is that it is too divided, and that it requires someone to “unite” us as a whole or in subsections. But saying that the country is “divided” is only a way of acknowledging that there are two parties representing two organic political tendencies and two broad American social tribes that disagree about many of the basic things. The call for “unity” often is the call for “majoritarian domination,” for getting one side to submit to the mastery of the other.
This is a current theme of Democratic partisanship in the New York Times mode. Jamelle Bouie, for example, writes that the first thing that’s needed from a Democratic presidential nominee is “unifying the party, and Sanders can do that,” and that the socialist from Vermont from Brooklyn “is the only candidate who can plausibly unite the anti-Trump majority of the electorate.” Frank Bruni, arguing for Pete Buttigieg instead, insists that “fragmentation” is “the greatest problem that America faces,” and that Buttigieg can reduce that fragmentation and hence make “progress on all of those other fronts possible.” David Leonhardt, too, worries about division, and makes the case that Democrats instead should rally behind Senator Klobuchar and “de-emphasize cultural issues—on which voters are much more divided,” describing a purely strategic approach. Michelle Goldberg, arguing for Elizabeth Warren, lays out a model for that “majoritarian domination” that Brooks warns of: “Even if a Democrat wins the presidency in November, Democrats won’t be able to pass significant legislation unless they both take the Senate and eliminate the filibuster. That will make Warren’s mastery of the levers of executive power particularly important.”
Mastery and power!
Brooks is right about Senator Sanders. But it is no less the case that Warren and the rest of that gang have very little interest in anything other than ruling, majoritarian domination, mastery and power—whatever you want to call it. Consider, for perspective, the upcoming Supreme Court trial on Philadelphia’s jihad against Catholic Social Services, which does invaluable work for children in the foster-care system but, in accordance with its religious beliefs, declines to place children in the care of homosexual couples. There are a million foster-care agencies (and adoption agencies, too) that are not Catholic, that serve homosexual couples, that toe whatever political line the corrupt and inept municipal powers of Philadelphia insist on—and one that does not. One deviation is too many. The Left will not have a live-and-let-live solution here, no more than in the matter of adoptions in Massachusetts.
They speak of “unity.” They mean “submission.”
Until we are able to conduct ourselves with genuine respect for the fact that there are real differences in our society, and that those differences involve things that people on both sides of the great divide believe to be morally important, we will not have a politics of the liberal toleration Brooks longs for. We will have majoritarian tyranny and a merciless fight for mastery and power.
And we will have two parties with two standard-bearers who truly deserve one another.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/majoritarian-domination/
"Billionaire Tom Steyer wasted over $252 million on his failed presidential campaign, according to federal election records."
This dwarf has dropped out.
What is the US Death Toll due to the Pandemic CNNoronavirus?
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Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is suspending his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, an aide told ABC News.
Three people with knowledge of Buttigieg's decision also told The Associated Press he is informing campaign staff. They were not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.
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