Sanders suspends presidential campaign, rendering Biden presumptive Democratic nominee
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Via: vic-eldred • 6 years ago • 30 commentsBy: Paul Steinhauser, Brooke Singman |
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Bernie Sanders has suspended his Democratic presidential campaign -- all but handing the nomination to former Vice President Joe Biden.
According to a brief campaign statement, the senator from Vermont announced the decision during an all-staff conference call Wednesday morning.
He will address supporters shortly before noon during a livestream.
The populist lawmaker has suffered a string of major primary defeats in his second straight presidential bid, but until now had refused to back out of the race, instead pressing Biden to embrace progressive policy positions.
But Biden has amassed a near-insurmountable delegate lead, following decisive victories on Super Tuesday as well as subsequent contests -- before coronavirus measures forced most primaries on the calendar to be delayed.
Sanders' lingering presence in the race had agitated Biden allies, concerned he would continue to make it difficult for Biden to fully focus on a general election battle against President Trump.
Biden, however, was already moving ahead, planning to consider running mates and even downplaying the possibility of any future debates with Sanders as part of the primary process.
The most recent primary was held Tuesday in Wisconsin, though most others are postponed. Results in that race are not expected for another week, though Biden was thought to have the clear advantage there.
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Now they have Joe!
Listening to him now. Seems like a plea to bring him back into the fold. He is still with all the free "it's a human right" bullshit...........
A lot of what Sanders wanted will go into the DNC platform as well as a lot of what the establishment elite wants.
The problem for democrats is that they got Biden!
I'm sure we'll start hearing from Bernie Bros about how this is all a setup or some dipshit nonsense. Good luck to Biden, he's going to need it.
So, the election is between a candidate fighting a war and a candidate hiding in a bunker.
Politically it becomes necessary to lose the war. There will be a major push to make the war unpopular. But this time we aren't fighting in Vietnam; the enemy is among us. Still, it seem as though the politics are deja vu all over again.
Can Joe Biden fight the good fight like George McGovern?
Nice bit of nonsense.
Democrats are following the same playbook they used against Richard Nixon: allegations of conspiracies, cover ups, abuse of power, and mismanagement of the war. Democrats used Congressional investigations to force Richard Nixon out of office. Democrats politicized the war, attempted to limit Presidential powers to manage the war, and encouraged liberals to resist. China played a prominent but largely unreported role in that war, too.
Democrats have even nominated another George McGovern; not because Biden is a liberal anti-establishment candidate but because Biden blows with the wind, just as did McGovern.
This really is deja vu all over again.
Bernie Sanders is destined to go down in history as one of the greatest Americans of the first half of the 21st century, and Donald Trump is destined to go down as the worst.
I didn't see the /s
Why? Because he ran for president twice?