Normally, the overwhelming majority of presidential candidates who only got single digit support will drop from the race after the Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire primary. Is Rob's Twitter tweet below a hint that this might not happen with the Democrats in 2020?
https://twitter.com/philosophrob/status/1101566409971302405
- philosophrob
At a minimum, the presence of these large-state candidates in the race will play a role with the early polling which helps to set impressions of the candidates.
Clearly, the Inside Beltway game plan is to not let Bernie gain the nomination from the primaries, and hope a combination of Biden, Harris and Sanders going the distance will deadlock the delegate count so the nominee will become selected from a 2nd ballot which will include votes from the super delegates.
Is this the HRC game plan? She then becomes anointed as a compromise nominee with the media already set to describe her as the "2016 Popular Vote Winner," the 2nd Clinton "Comeback Kid" (her husband Bill was once called "The Comeback Kid") or as the amazing "I Wuz Robbed Girl," the one who got robbed by Trump and The Russians?
The ONLY way to put a stop to this political saspisash is to build a United Front behind Bernie Sanders. Otherwise, the center Democrats, if successful, will always enable right-wing politics to prevail in America on the important issues of war and peace, economics and labor and Big Banking, Big Oil, Big Pharma/Health, Big Agri and with the drug war/private prison industry.
https://medium.com/@m_weddle/my-crystal-ball-for-2020-election-b2cb4a8e7328