Bernie Sanders is down but not out

Mathematically speaking, Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign is as dead as disco. After a streak of victories in big, delegate-rich states on and after Super Tuesday, Joe Biden is leading Sanders by 273 delegates. For Sanders to pull off a political miracle, he would need to win 64.2 per cent of the remaining delegates over the next three months, something nobody but the most rabid Bernie supporter envisions the Vermont senator doing. 

Some of the largest states left to vote – Georgia, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York – aren’t seen as particularly ripe fruit for the Sanders campaign to pluck. The best the senator can do is win a few delegates in these states, increase his overall count, and use that tally during the Democratic convention in the summer as leverage when the party negotiates its platform.

There has always been a deep frustration in the inner-sanctum of the Democratic party about who Bernie Sanders is, how he acts, and what he represents.