{"id":2456936,"date":"2020-04-08T09:58:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=323996"},"modified":"2020-04-08T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T15:58:12","slug":"sanders-drops-2020-presidential-bid-leaving-biden-as-likely-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/sanders-drops-2020-presidential-bid-leaving-biden-as-likely-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders drops 2020 presidential bid, leaving Biden as likely nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/AP20099556924152-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/AP20099556924152-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/AP20099556924152-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/AP20099556924152-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/AP20099556924152-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/AP20099556924152-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign event in Columbia, S.C. on Feb. 28, 2020.<\/strong><br \/><em>AP Photo\/Matt Rourke<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Sen. Bernie Sanders, who saw his once strong lead in the Democratic primary evaporate as the party\u2019s establishment lined swiftly up behind rival Joe Biden, ended his presidential bid on Wednesday, an acknowledgment that the former vice president is too far ahead for him to have any reasonable hope of catching up.<\/p>\n<p>The Vermont senator\u2019s announcement makes Biden the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge President Donald Trump in November.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders plans to talk to his supporters later Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders initially exceeded sky-high expectations about his ability to recreate the magic of his 2016 presidential bid, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/fcec4d5e82844672b3e330535506135f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even overcame a heart attack last October<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i>&nbsp;on the campaign trail. But he found himself unable to convert unwavering support from progressives into a viable path to the nomination amid \u201celectability\u201d fears fueled by questions about whether his democratic socialist ideology would be palatable to general election voters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/at-banner-paypal.jpg)\" class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/donate\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=donation&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=mid-article\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 78-year-old senator began his latest White House bid facing questions about whether he could win back the supporters who chose him four years ago as an insurgent alternative to the party establishment\u2019s choice, Hillary Clinton. Despite winning 22 states in 2016, there were no guarantees he\u2019d be a major presidential contender this cycle, especially as the race\u2019s oldest candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders, though, used strong polling and solid fundraising \u2014 collected almost entirely from small donations made online \u2014 to more than quiet early doubters. Like the first time, he attracted widespread support from young voters and was able to make new inroads within the Hispanic community, even as his appeal with African Americans remained small.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders amassed the most votes in Iowa and New Hampshire, which opened primary voting, and cruised to an easy victory in Nevada \u2014 seemingly leaving him well positioned to sprint to the Democratic nomination while a deeply crowded and divided field of alternatives sunk around him.<\/p>\n<p>But a crucial endorsement of Biden by influential South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, and a subsequent, larger-than-expected victory in South Carolina, propelled the former vice president into Super Tuesday, when he won 10 of 14 states.<\/p>\n<p>In a matter of days, his top former Democratic rivals lined up and announced their endorsement of Biden. The former vice president\u2019s campaign had appeared on the brink of collapse after New Hampshire but found new life as the rest of the party\u2019s more moderate establishment coalesced around him as an alternative to Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>Things only got worse the following week when Sanders lost Michigan, where he had campaigned hard and upset Clinton in 2016. He was also beaten in Missouri, Mississippi and Idaho the same night and the results were so decisive that Sanders headed to Vermont without speaking to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders had scheduled a rally in Ohio but canceled it amid fears about the spread of coronavirus \u2014 and the outbreak kept him home as his campaign appeared unsure of its next move. The senator addressed reporters the following day, but also sounded like a candidate who already knew he\u2019d been beaten.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile our campaign has won the ideological debate, we are losing the debate over electability,\u201d Sanders said then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/election\/sanders-drops-2020-presidential-bid-leaving-biden-as-likely-nominee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign event in Columbia, S.C. on Feb. 28, 2020.AP Photo\/Matt Rourke WASHINGTON \u2014 Sen. Bernie Sanders, who saw his once strong lead in the Democratic primary evaporate as the party\u2019s establishment lined swiftly up behind rival Joe Biden, ended his presidential bid on Wednesday, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 05:24:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}