Daniel DePetris

The three reasons Bernie Sanders couldn’t beat Joe Biden

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He took nearly a month to assess the state of his campaign after a whopping 15-point defeat in the crucial battleground state of Michigan. But after private deliberations with his wife, Jane, and some lobbying from his senior political advisers, Bernie Sanders came to the conclusion that continuing his presidential campaign would likely do more harm than good. On Wednesday he decided to call it quits, telling his supporters that there was ‘no alternative’.

Mathematically, he was right. Sanders was trailing former Vice President Joe Biden by over 300 delegates in the primaries and would have needed to win over 60 per cent of the remaining delegates to capture the Democratic Party nomination. Such a feat would have frankly required an even bigger miracle that Biden’s electoral romp on Super Tuesday. Sanders may be a political revolutionary, but those who have worked with the senator for decades also say he’s a pragmatist – and somebody who knows when the battle is lost.

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