After three more big losses, the Vermont senator faces a choice about his presidential campaign, and about the progressive movement he has built.
of presidential primary voting Tuesday, Bernie Sanders keeps pushing on — but it is unclear to where and for how long.
In the end, however, the Vermont senator doesn’t have many options. Every path to the nomination — short of a calamity befalling front-runner Joe Biden — has closed off. His movement seems weaker each time voters go to the polls. The coronavirus pandemic has muzzled the Sanders megaphone, making itNow he faces a choice that is not just about his campaign, but about the movement he has been building his entire political career.
Even some of his supporters say the choice for Sanders now is mostly about how he can best influence the party, not how he can preserve a chance to win the nomination.“His campaign is going to have to make a decision about his path forward … how to make sure the profound impact he has had on politics over the last five years translates into long-term gains,” said Neil Sroka, spokesman for Democracy for America, a progressive group backing Sanders.
Indeed, some down-ballot Democrats might benefit from Sanders remaining on the ballot and continuing to help increase party turnout. In Wisconsin, for example, the state’s primary, scheduled for April 7, includes not just the presidential primary but a general election for a contested state Supreme Court seat that Democrats are hoping to flip.
The coronavirus pandemic has essentially ended — even sidelined — the presidential campaign as Democrats have known it. Primary elections are being postponed, as party leaders struggle to expand mail-in voting. Biden and Sanders have been forced to go all-digital in their outreach to voters — a bigger sacrifice for Sanders, whose rallies were electrifying while Biden’s were not.
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