Wednesday, March 4, 2020
John Fund: Biden’s Super Tuesday victories may enable Democratic establishment to block Sanders nomination
Joe Biden will take the lions share of the second-largest group of delegates in Texas win.
The
old cliché is that when it comes to picking presidential candidates,
Democrats fall in love while Republicans fall in line. But this year is
different. A lot of Democrats recognize former Vice President Joe Biden’s
many liabilities, but they are falling in line behind him in order to
stop socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont from carrying their banner
in November.
As recently as Feb. 24, Biden trailed Sanders
by 29 percent to 17 percent in the RealClear Politics average of all
national polls. Biden was considered to be a tired, stumbling and
washed-up contender. But now Biden narrowly leads Sanders in the
national polls and won a majority of the 14 states that voted on Super
Tuesday.
The Morning Briefing: Super Tuesday—Fauxcahontas Farewell Edition
She's Toast but She'll Probably Burn a Little Longer
Super
Tuesday was a super bust for the super unlikable Elizabeth Warren, the
truth-challenged former Native American from Massachusetts. In her bid
for the “Worst Candidate of This Cycle” title, Warren wasn’t even the
favorite socialist in her home state, where she finished third.
As the kids like to say: that’s gonna leave a mark.
The
question now is will this thoroughly awful, undeservedly proud stain on
the American political landscape get the hint and leave the race? Or,
as some have suspected, will Warren be this election year’s John Kasich,
hanging around to serve no purpose whatsoever? With the right
combination of hubris and dedicated donors, any candidate can stay in a
race long past his or her shelf life. Warren gets a lot of money from
academics who are always telling her that she’s the smartest girl in the
room. That may very well be enough to let her linger like the odor of
filthy socks in a teenage boy’s bedroom.
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