By the time the coronavirus pandemic put the Democratic primary on ice, Joe Biden was already its presumed winner
UNTIL THE RESULTS from South Carolina’s presidential primary started coming in, just five weeks ago, Bernie Sanders was the hot favourite to win the Democratic ticket. Had he done so, the combination of an unpopular incumbent, a soaring death toll from covid-19 and a cratering economy might well have put the 78-year-old socialist in the White House. But what a world away that seems.
He won 10 of the 14. And he ran Mr Sanders close enough in California, the biggest prize of the primary, to ensure he took a big slab of its delegates. Still flush with money—which he has perfected the art of raising by the bucket-load online—Mr Sanders nonetheless vowed to battle on. Yet the verdict of subsequent states confirmed he had no realistic hope of victory. Mr Biden won eight of the next nine, including all the big ones: such as Florida and Michigan.
It still seems likely that a more left-wing candidate than Mr Biden could have profited from this change. Yet the one best-placed to do so, Senator Elizabeth Warren—a left-winger who, unlike Mr Sanders, calls herself a capitalist—foundered on the back of her missteps and Mr Sanders’s presence in the race. In an attempt to win his hard-left supporters, she aped his health-care policy, which turned off her more moderate supporters in droves, dooming her candidacy.
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