Biden's victory recasts the Democratic race with Super Tuesday looming

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina voters on Saturday moved the Democratic presidential nomination back to where it was before the primaries and caucuses began last month, as a contest moving in the direction of a race between Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former vice president Joe Biden.

The race is not at that point yet. There are still too many candidates running, including one who has spent close to half a billion dollars already, and there are turns ahead, beginning with a huge day of voting this week on Super Tuesday. But the resounding victory for Biden, after a dismal start in early February, will greatly strengthen his argument that he alone among the other candidates is now the best hope of establishment Democrats to take on Sanders.

That Biden is now able to make the argument is the result of a confluence of several factors. One is the sheer perseverance of the candidate and his campaign team, who long said the Democratic race was likely to go on for many weeks, and that Iowa and New Hampshire would not provide a definitive answer to who the finalists were likely to be.

Another factor is the strength of Sanders’s candidacy and the momentum he has built up in the first month of the nominating campaign. The Sanders surge awakened those in the Democratic establishment who see the senator from Vermont and his democratic socialist agenda as a threat to the party’s hopes across the board in November and who viewed his fractured opposition as a major obstacle to slowing his momentum.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/bidens-victory-recasts-the-democratic-race-with-super-tuesday-looming/ar-BB10zHTy?li=BBnb7Kz

[Walleye]

1. They've been trying to count out Joe from the start

Nevertheless, we persist

[Laelth]

2. That's a reasonable analysis.

I note, however, that the goalposts are changing a bit.

The question used to be who had the best chance of beating Trump.

In this article, the question is who has the best chance of beating Sanders.

Interesting.

-Laelth