Panicked Democrat Establishment Turns To Bloomberg
Even if he can buy the Democratic nomination, he's not what their base voters want.
By Mollie Hemingway
February 19, 2020
This wasn’t how the 2020 race was supposed to be. The establishment had a plan to take back control of Washington, D.C. Donald Trump had seized control and they needed to get it back.
After surveying the options, the plan was to give Joe Biden, President Obama’s vice president, the nomination. The media did their part, suppressing negative messaging about the 77-year-old who has never won a presidential primary or caucus. They pushed an impeachment designed to suppress President Trump’s numbers heading into the election year. Instead, it helped Trump and hurt Democrats.
When Bernie Sanders seemed poised to win Iowa, they drastically limited news coverage about the caucuses. But Biden underperformed there, then underperformed in New Hampshire, coming in an embarrassing fifth place. He may do better in Nevada and South Carolina, but his path is looking more like a slog.
When Biden faltered, the media looked at the others in the center-left lane. Democrats have two lanes, essentially. The Bernie Sanders lane and the center-left lane, sometimes misnomered by liberal journalists as a “moderate†lane despite none of the candidates in that lane being politically moderate. Sure, the establishment would take Amy Klobuchar or even Pete Buttigieg or Elizabeth Warren over Sanders. But if they’re being honest with themselves, they’re worried that those candidates don’t have what it takes.
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