“The initial mishandling of the coronavirus by the government doesn’t mean voters will penalize Trump in November,” said Michael Ceraso, who worked for Sanders in 2016 and was Pete Buttigieg’s New Hampshire director before leaving his campaign last year. “We know we have two candidates who can pivot this generation’s largest health crisis to their policy strengths. But history tells us that an incumbent who steers us through a challenging time, a la Bush and 9/11 and Obama and the Great Recession, are rewarded with a second term.”
In a normal year, the presidential primary would be shutting down by now, with Biden piling up delegates and Sanders running out of states to win. Biden easily defeated Sanders in the three states that voted Tuesday, including landslides in Florida and Illinois.
And unlike in 2016, when California’s massive haul of delegates came later in the process, Sanders has little to look forward to. Sanders was widely expected to lose in delegate-rich Ohio on Tuesday before the state postponed its primary at the last minute. Georgia, which also just pushed back its primary that had been scheduled for next week, looked similarly grim for the Vermont senator.
But the coronavirus has temporarily forestalled those outcomes. And if Puerto Rico reschedules its March 29 primary as expected, it will be more than two weeks before the next regularly scheduled primaries.
Many of Sanders’ allies are lobbying him to stay in — not to win, necessarily, but to amass more delegates to help advance progressive policy causes at the Democratic National Convention this summer.
Source: politico.com
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