The Democratic race is over. Voters have picked Joe Biden - Richard Wolffe

[4now]

This Democratic race isn’t pining for the fjords. It is no more. It has ceased to be. Its metabolic processes are now history. This is an ex-presidential contest.

The only reason the news networks could not call the Florida primary as soon as the votes piled up for Joe Biden was because the state’s panhandle voters were still at the polls. Once those polls closed, the obvious was made official: it was a blowout for Biden.

The last time we heard from Bernie Sanders after losing big in the last round of primaries, he said he wanted to debate the former vice-president head-to-head, one-on-one, to press his case directly and finally.

“While our campaign has won the ideological debate, we are losing the debate over electability,” Sanders said the day after his Super Tuesday defeats. “Donald Trump must be defeated, and I will do everything in my power to make that happen. On Sunday night, in the first one-on-one debate of this campaign, the American people will have the opportunity to see which candidate is best positioned to accomplish that goal.”

Well the American people had that opportunity and they chose Joe Biden. If this is what winning the ideological debate looks like, Sanders should seriously consider debating another topic.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/17/democratic-race-joe-biden-2020-bernie-sanders

[B Stieg]

1. Go away.

Bernie, get ye back to the senate. You've lost all the debates. Medicare for all is inevitable, but it can't become a reality in this insane of an environment.

[The Magistrate]

2. Mr. Wolffe Is Correct

There is no longer a contest for the Presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

There may remain a effort, an extremely misguided effort under the circumstances, to damage the Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, conducted by a peculiarly hidebound and rigid man who ought to know better, but long since chose not to learn.

[PatrickforO]

3. Good. I'm glad Biden has won. Now we can all focus on the main battle,

to defeat Donald Trump and his minions.

[Jarqui]

4. Roughly, Biden only needs to win 38.7% of the remaining delegates

and Bernie cannot pass him for most delegates from primaries.

With Biden having commanding leads in OH, PA, DE, MD, LA & GA, he'd only need less than 25% of the delegates from the other states.

Biden is also currently 2.4 million votes ahead of Bernie.

This is so over.

[Cha]

5. Yeah, Joe Biden WON!

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. Agreed. nt

[flibbitygiblets]

7. Agreed. We've got a lot to do, we need to move on now.

Please.

[LizBeth]

8. DropOutBernie