by Christina Greer
Thousands of Americans went to the polls in Arizona, Florida, and Illinois.
Those results combined with previous super Tuesday contests have by all accounts solidified Vice President Joe Biden as the front runner and presumed winner of the Democratic party primary.
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ supporters continue to argue that it is too early to count out their candidate and we must wait for even more diverse states to weigh in. Unfortunately, Sanders and his supporters may need to apply the same fervor they directed at Sen. Elizabeth Warren after the South Carolina primary and encourage their candidate to suspend his campaign.
Let’s put Biden’s wins in some context. As the old folks used to say, Biden beat Sanders like he stole somethin! Biden has run the tables these past few primaries winning the majority of delegates in Arizona, Illinois, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Idaho, Washington, and Michigan (to name just a few).
Bernie 2020 seems to be losing some of the support he had in 2016. When looking at the returns, it appears that some (if not many) of the 2016 votes for Sanders may have actually just been votes against Hillary Clinton.
Sanders has been courting younger voters and Latinx voters for the past four years, but his apparent unwillingness to substantially reach out to Black voters, particularly Black primary voters (a.k.a older Black voters) proves to be his Achilles heel yet again.
“Joe Knows Us”
Yes, Sanders did receive an endorsement from Jesse Jackson before the Michigan primary, but we must remember that a Jackson endorsement is not the equivalent of a James Clyburn endorsement.
There are a few keys differences between James Clyburn and Jesse Jackson endorsements that Sanders’ folks should have realized.
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