Arizona, Florida and Illinois collectively have 184 counties. Bernie Sanders won three of them, none by more than five points
MAGNANIMITY IS A winner’s privilege, and the speech that Joe Biden delivered on March 17th was amply magnanimous. He told supporters of Bernie Sanders, whom he defeated in all three states voting that night, that he and his rival “may disagree on tactics, but we share a common vision”. Standing alone in his Delaware home behind a podium , he praised first responders and poll-workers, consoled the bereaved and sounded more like a wartime president than a candidate.
Mr Sanders’s supporters, who have visions of turning Texas and Arizona Democratic, point to his strength with Latinos as a reason he should lead the party. The results on March 17th show that such thinking is flawed. There are more competitive electoral-college votes at stake in Florida, where Mr Sanders is much less popular. Such assertions also ignore general-election polls, which show Mr Biden beating Mr Trump in Arizona, but Mr Sanders losing.
Ohio, which Mr Sanders probably would have lost badly, was due to vote on March 17th, but the night before postponed its primary until June. Mike DeWine, the state’s Republican governor, said that “mustn’t be forced to choose between their health and exercising their constitutional rights.” The state’s Supreme Court backed him in a pre-dawn ruling on polling day, leaving some voters rattling locked doors at polling stations as the sun rose.
For some, the decisions to postpone voting, whatever their public-health merits, raised the spectre of Donald Trump doing something similar in November. He cannot cancel an election—that takes an act of Congress—or change the inauguration date, which is in the constitution. But a president could, conceivably, order polling places closed for public-health reasons, or take similar measures to depress turnout or discourage voting.
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