With Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and Tom Steyer out, and Joe Biden battling Bernie Sanders for frontrunner status, what are the Super Tuesday stakes?
, Warren stands to gain the most from Buttigieg bowing out: 26% of Pete supporters said they’d realign with her, while 19% named Biden as their backup and 11% said they’d vote for Sanders instead.For Sanders, Super Tuesday is all about proving he can hold on to front-runner status across the country, demonstrating to some in the Democratic establishment that a democratic socialist can win a general election. At stake for Biden: riding the S.C. surge and winning other key states.
After skipping the first four primary votes, the former New York City mayor will be on the ballot for the first time on Super Tuesday, and it’s a “moment of truth” for the billionaire businessman, according to his hometown paper, the . Can buying hundreds of millions of dollars in ads and running as a party outsider actually work? “Bloomberg needs to clear a 15% threshold to even win delegates in many states and congressional districts,” thesaid. “If he fails to do that across wide swaths of the map, his campaign may be doomed, no matter how much money he has to spend.”
Bloomberg belatedly entered the race on his concern that the existing candidates couldn’t beat Trump, but Biden’s key S.C. victory could undermine that rationale. Some, like Delaware senator Chris Coons, who has endorsed Biden, suggest Bloomberg could actually “dilute” the appeal of fellow moderate Biden...a claim noted by, um, Bloomberg’she won’t drop out of the race even if he doesn’t finish in the top three on Super Tuesday.
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