After last night’s disaster in New York, the Bernie Sanders for president campaign finds itself on life support, flailing in the wind, trying desperately to keep it together, while Hillary chugs towards the finish line.
First off we have Jeff Weaver trolling for votes, trying to convince himself Bernie can still win, also trying in vain to get super-delegates to switch. We have Tad Devine going on Twitter saying the Sanders team will assess where they stand after next Tuesday, then almost as quickly, backtracking, saying they march onward towards Cleveland.
Then we have Sanders himself, not even in New York for the vote, making a speech in Pennsylvania, then hopping on his plane to Vermont, stranding the press
corps, then having an emergency meeting to discuss whatever.
Bernie Sanders has had a rotten 24 hours, and it doesn’t look like things are going to get better anytime soon. Hillary is ahead in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, with Rhode Island and Delaware up in the air because we haven’t had any polling there. After next Tuesday, Hillary will certainly pad her lead in delegates with around 2100 of them, only needing 283 more to clinch the nomination.
I’m not telling Bernie to drop his campaign. That’s up to him, and if he wants to continue, then he will, but even he now must realize the fat lady is warming up. Hillary will be the nominee. Bernie has a decision to make. Does he drop out and unify behind Hillary, like Hillary had to do in 2008 behind Obama, or does he go on, and risk blowing up the party, and electing Trump, who would be a total disaster for the country. His supporters will no doubt want to go on, but the calls for him to drop out, especially after next Tuesday will get louder and louder.
