Michigan Was Once Bernie's Resurrection. Now It Could Be His Burial.

[brooklynite]

Politico

Sanders’s team has long trumpeted his Michigan triumph as evidence of his ability to assemble a unique coalition and defeat the Democratic establishment. But a closer look at that contest, taken in the context of this year’s primary results, suggests that Sanders’s own weaknesses are about to be exposed. And that, in turn, means winning Michigan will be far more difficult this time around. Not only do party insiders expect Democratic turnout will spike among groups unfavorable to him—blacks and suburbanites, in particular—but he now faces an opponent in Joe Biden who comes into the state with a head of steam, who benefits from Democrats’ desire to coalesce behind an alternative to Trump, and who will compete for independents and working-class whites in a way Clinton never did.

It’s possible Sanders could offset these dynamics, and these demographic headwinds, by galvanizing record-breaking numbers of young people to vote. He stressed as much Sunday night during a rock-star rally at the University of Michigan. With an estimated 10,000 people in attendance—whipped into a frenzy by his ace surrogate, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—Sanders acknowledged that Michigan’s primary is the whole ball of wax on Tuesday and predicted a win on the strength of his youth-anchored coalition.

But the odds are increasingly stacked against him, here and across the country. If he doesn’t pull off another Michigan miracle—if he loses in lopsided fashion, as many Democrats here now expect—the state responsible for his 2016 resurrection could mark his 2020 burial.

“It’s getting hard not to see Biden winning here, and by a comfortable margin,” said Adrian Hemond, a veteran Democratic strategist who is neutral in the primary. “He’s got a huge base of support in the black community, and while maybe he doesn’t appeal to the non-college-educated whites like Trump does, he’s not toxic to them like Hillary was. Bernie’s only real advantage is with young voters, and they don’t turn out anyway.”

[beachbumbob]

1. no matter, sanders ego will not allow him to "bow out", we saw the eventual damage sander's ploy in

2016 did to hillary and enable a large number of sanders supporters not to vote or they voted for Jill Stein. People want to know why i less time for leftwing extremist than rightwing? We expect the rightwing to do what they do.

[empedocles]

4. Agree

[NCProgressive]

9. Which is why he needs to lose by an ego crushing margin.

[dware]

2. Sen. Sanders made a HUGE strategic error by not showing up

for the Bloody Sunday memorial, thereby insulting the core base of the Democratic Party, and then blowing off Mississippi, now it's going to bite him in the ass big time in MI.

It's like this guy is his own worse enemy.

[NurseJackie]

3. It's all over. Biden is inevitable. The only question that remains is who he'll ask to be his VP.

C'MON! GET IN! We're taking back America!







Joe/Kamala or Biden/Harris 2020!!
Jump on the Biden Bandwagon & abandon the revolution!!

[beachbumbob]

5. biden is as inevitable as hillary was and sanders and his people can still inflict lots of

damage on Joe and democrats as well.

[NurseJackie]

6. Now we know better. We know what to expect.

Too much credit was given in the past. We never imagined a kneecapping and scorched-earth policy would have been adopted. Now we know what to expect. Time to fight fire with fire.

[beachbumbob]

7. yep, pay zero attention to the sanders noise machine.

[Blue_Tires]

8. Sanders dug his own grave

I don't know which of his 2020 campaign strategists came up with the idea that going to fucking WAR with Black America was a good idea, but there you have it...

If nothing else, 2016 should have told them that they couldn't win without us.

[NCProgressive]

10. I hope Sanders supporting politicians

all lose their primaries.

We have a dynamic Democratic candidate in Michelle Caruso Cabrera who can defeat AOC and work for the welfare of NY-14 constituents.

https://michellecc2020.com/