Biden has tried to have it both for ways. Running for the general and the primary at the same time. I don’t think you can do it anymore because the Rat base is now a pack of irrational leftists who are unable to see a big picture. But I still think most of the MSM think creepy has the best shot at taking out Trump so he still has that going for him.
Bernie could wrangle the nomination from the other “freebie freeks” by simply saying, “I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat with Socialist experience. You know me. I know how to square the circle. These other pikers have no idea how to do it without killing the Golden Goose. They’ll ruin everything! I’m the one who can show you how to do it.”
Of course he can’t. But that’s how he shuts up the young whippersnappers and Jack-n-Jill-come-latelys in the race.