After this debate, what possible rationale does Bernie Sanders have for staying in the race?

WP ^ | 3/15/20 | By Jennifer Rubin

[conservative98]

The debate between former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was entirely unnecessary given that Sanders is all but eliminated as a serious contender. He continues to take money from donors and encourage others to congregate (for example, phone banking), which is neither reasonable nor responsible. The debate changed nothing and suggests Sanders should have exited the race.

Biden made real news committing to pick a woman as vice president. Biden also promised to nominate an African American woman to the Supreme Court. Sanders tried to argue about Biden’s past votes on the Hyde Amendment, which restricts federal funding for poor women seeking abortions, but when pressed would only say “in all likelihood” he would pick a woman for vice president. The Sanders camp was caught flat-footed. The rest of the debate did not go any better for Sanders.

Biden’s first instinct is to express empathy. (“First of all, my heart goes out to those … who are suffering from the virus.”) Biden explained the stakes: “This is bigger than any one of us.” Sanders’s first instinct is to revert to his Medicare-for-all talking points.

Biden has a grasp of specifics, recommendations he can offer that demonstrate he has a deep understanding of the issue. He can refer to expertise in handling previous health pandemics. When Sanders tried again and again to make this a Medicare-for-all issue, Biden called him out. “With all due respect to Medicare-for-all, you have a single-payer system in Italy,” Biden said. “It is not working in Italy right now.” He made a devastating case that Sanders’s fixation on Medicare-for-all is irrelevant if not uninformed.

[Redwood71]

“Stay in the race, Bernie.”

You’re right. The linger he stays in, and continues the dissident he is accomplishing, the less intelligent and more dangerous it is to vote democrat, (whatever they call themselves this year...liberal, progressive, socialist...). All it does is create lack of trust and fear of them from the sheep that generally vote for them.

And sheep are a good comparison. The will spook at any little movement and need a dog to keep them together. And as long as the wind blows from his mouth, and kicks up movement, their voters are uncomfortable and more confused than normal. And Biden ain’t dog enough to catch them. I could have called him something else, but this is a family show.

rwood

[dirtymac]

Staying in the race in case Biden dies or is truly incapable of even faking competency, or to cut a better deal at the convention. Like a 4th and 5th home and a lot more cash.

[NorseViking]

A new Sander’s vision of American dream?

Soviet song (1949) - Harvest song (English subtitles)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xKQBmxEgEFM&list=RDxKQBmxEgEFM&start_radio=1