Sanders is still in, and still has 42% of allocated delegates, with more than half of delegates still unallocated. There's still a viable candidate in the race.
Sanders probably isn't a viable candidate. He can't beat Biden head-to-head (he got almost all his delegates when there were many candidates still in the race). And even if he did, I don't think he can beat Trump.
On the other hand, I don't think Biden can, either. (Or at least I didn't before Covid 19, which hasn't shown Trump to be the pinnacle of competent leadership.) Is the cupboard really that bare at the Democratic Party, that these candidates are the best they have?
All of these candidates were better than Trump, by any objective measure like polls, IQ, eloquency, politics, grasp of domestic and international issues.
Biden and Sanders had been pulling crowds just as large as Trump had been.
The only path to victory for Trump is a really low voter turnout. Biden is beating him in polls, by a much larger margin than Clinton did. Even in "battleground" states. Covid-19 is the only factor on the horizon that could lead to the kind of voter turnout that Trump needs to win. Otherwise, again from polling and the mid-term elections, you can expect a record voter turnout, especially on the democratic side.
Trump has a rock solid base, so he only needs to convince a few swing voters to jump on board. He could start pretending to be presidential (having someone else write the speeches, and refusing to do any talking that isn't on a teleprompter would be enough) and his approval ratings would shoot into the stratosphere because expectations have been set so low up until now.
It is not a good idea to underestimate him. He defies expectations, over and over, while doing things every day that would be the end of any other person's political career.
The base is not enough. He needs more independents to vote for him than last time. And according to most polls, he just doesn't have them.
You think he can act more presidential? No, he physically can't. He can barely read. Reading a teleprompter is torture for him. He messes up about one sentence in three (being generous) and takes pauses. He sounds like a hostage reading a manuscript. He constitutionally can't tell the truth, and that is evident from his long public life and has been even more densely proven through his presidency. He really doesn't have the skills to even "act" presidential or fake empathy.
He also is mentally incapable of not being in the spotlight. He is hijacking the Covid-19 press briefings, turning them into campaign speeches. Lying both about Covid-19 and about other issues like his Facebook popularity, his impeachment or whatever else he is obsessed about.
God help us. He's even older than Biden, and Biden would be record-setting were he to be elected. Both of these guys should be worried more about surviving COVID19 than anything else at this point.
Yeah. Ironically, Trump represents the youth movement. It amazes me that the Democrats found not one, but two people older than Trump to be their two remaining possible candidates.
Appalling, but not terribly surprising, that white-haired old guys become candidates. While different, very qualified candidates were essentially ignored.
Well, it's a bit surprising for the Democratic Party, at least if you listen to what they say about "different" people. But maybe it's easier to talk that way than to actually back such candidates.
Now, in fairness, the Democratic Party has produced female candidates, and candidates of different races (for other offices), and elected them. And they produced Hillary as a candidate in 2016. And they produced Obama as a winning candidate in 2008. So they have "walked their talk".
For this election, though, old white men. And emphasize the old. Bill Clinton and JFK showed the power a younger candidate could unleash. But not this time. It just feels like, these guys might have been interesting two decades ago, but today? C'mon.
I've thought for a while that there should be an age limit for the President and also the top positions of the house and Senate. Anecdotally lot of people seem opposed to that. However I read that Jimmy Carter believes the same.
What pisses me off is the Democratic party pushing the line that not being 100% behind Clinton meant you were a misogynist. And then 4 years later they throw Harris and Warren under to the bus to support Biden. Not nice.
Anyone who calls Sanders more viable than Trump is not interested in a factual discussion.
You might like Sanders more than Biden, you might like his politics more. But you aren't entitled to your own facts, and the facts are that Biden has a decisive lead that is almost impossible to catch up. Biden beats Trump in polls by a much larger margin than Sanders. Sanders was not able to motivate a larger voting turnout in the primary elections. There is no basis to call Sanders more viable.
