Will Wisconsin Be the Last Stand for Bernie Sanders?

[Zorro]

Senator Bernie Sanders began his live-stream presentation about the coronavirus on Saturday night as he begins nearly all of his events: by thanking the musicians who performed before he took the microphone.

“I want to thank Soccer Mommy for their great music,” he said, staring into the camera from his home in Burlington, Vt.

The next day, a senior adviser for his campaign tweeted that clip of Mr. Sanders with her own words of gratitude — and an impassioned plea: “I want to thank Bernie for staying in the race,” she wrote, adding the hashtag #StayInBernie.

Mr. Sanders is still in the Democratic presidential race for now, trailing badly in the delegate contest with just one primary looming on the distorted political calender: Wisconsin votes on Tuesday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/bernie-sanders-wisconsin.html

[MrsCoffee]

1. The fat lady doesn't need to do an encore.

It’s been over for some time now.

[empedocles]

2. BS is BS is bs - afraid he'll still be messing up on Wednesday

[The Magistrate]

3. Not A Last Stand, Sir

'Bernie' and crew are in full flight from the field with the Dragoons in among them at the gallop.

The only question is whether sufficient followers will reach the woods, and hole up with their chief in the hills for a guerrilla campaign lasting till this autumn.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

[ehrnst]

4. It certainly makes a more compelling book if he stays in to the bitter end.

[George II]

5. His last stand was on March 3, then March 10, then March 17.

[Kahuna]

6. Fingers crossed...

[Happy Hoosier]

7. Nope.

The man has no shame.

[Cha]

19. Evidently these were just words..

Donald Trump must be defeated,” Bernie Sanders insists, “and I will do everything in my power to make that happen.”

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/1287673175

[lark]

8. Nah, this isn't about numbers with him or even winning now, it's about hurting us.

He thinks he should be our candidate and won't drop out because we are too stupid to follow him. He will stay in until the convention to prove he is right and to punish Dems for not picking him. At least that's what I expect based on his actions so far. I hope I'm wrong and he will put the country first, but it hasn't happened yet.

[Cha]

20. And, these were just words..

Donald Trump must be defeated,” Bernie Sanders insists, “and I will do everything in my power to make that happen.”

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/1287673175

[Sloumeau]

9. Bernie Sanders starring in "The Neverending Campaign". :) nt

[Claustrum]

10. I doubt it

The turnout will be extremely low and you have a serious case to argue that it doesn't reflect the real voice of the people so you discard the result if it's not favorable to you.

Also, Bernie has been known to be consistent. His stance in 2016 and again in March 2020 are that until someone reaches the magic 1990 delegates or the last primary to be held, he will stay in. I would love to be proven wrong due to the pandemic but I highly doubt it. There were signs back in March that got my hopes up but he stayed in at the end. I will stop speculating his dropping out until he actually announce it.

[Gothmog]

11. The primary has been over for a while

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. I think there will still be a narrow path to victory.

Narrow. Very narrow. A razor's edge.

[The Magistrate]

14. Perhaps Mr. Lehrer's Greatest Couplet, Sir

"Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor-blade of life."

[Demsrule86]

21. Sanders has no chance.

[awesomerwb1]

13. Yeah right.

With Bernie it's either I win (he can't/won't) OR you (Biden) won't either.

[MineralMan]

15. He made his "last stand" previously.

He has not admitted that, however. More's the pity.

[DavidDvorkin]

16. 2016 was his last stand.

[DenverJared]

18. Sanders will be campaigning forever

It sells books yanno?

Everyone dreams of a fourth mansion in Florida or some place warm!

[Meowmee]

22. Won't he have to drop out at some point if Biden gets what is needed?

[Sugarcoated]

23. I'm not hearing the election night music on MSNBC

Is there a reason they're not covering this primary the same as they usually do?

[BlueIdaho]

24. I think all ballots will not be counted for 5 or 6 days.

We won’t be seeing the usual county by county results till then. Pity - it would have been a welcome diversion at my house.

[Gothmog]

25. Yep

Link to tweet

[customerserviceguy]

26. Hopefully

not too many Democratic voters will be dead of C-19 by November, because they went out to vote yesterday. It would be horrible if we lost Wisconsin again because of that.