For Bernie Sanders, the Democratic race’s trend line is inauspicious. But he has a good chance of turning back that tide
Bern on. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images It’s been a rough 72 hours for the Bernie Sanders campaign. In South Carolina Saturday, the Vermont senator put up a respectable showing, but Joe Biden mounted a spectacular one. The former vice-president won the Palmetto State by nearly 30 points.
If you had told the Sanders campaign one year ago that the senator would emerge from the first four primary contests with a delegate lead, enter Super Tuesday with an even shot of preserving his front-runner status, and have, as his chief rival, a version of Joe Biden so compromised by the ravages of time as to have difficulty completing the sentence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created _______,” the campaign would have surely taken that outcome in a heartbeat.
This is not a case for complacency. Sanders remains in a remarkably strong position for a democratic socialist in an American presidential campaign. But after the historic polling shift of the past two days, Biden appears to have the upper hand. The Sanders campaign would be wise to reflect on how this happened — and to avoid attributing the development entirely to forces beyond its control.
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