Bernie Sanders said he will stay in the Democratic presidential nomination race despite suffering a series of big losses to front-runner Joe Biden
BURLINGTON, Vt. - Bernie Sanders said on Wednesday he will stay in the Democratic presidential race despite suffering a series of big losses to front-runner Joe Biden, promising to keep up the public pressure for his sweeping economic and social justice proposals.
On Tuesday, Biden notched decisive primary victories in Michigan and three other states, taking a big step toward the party’s nomination to take on Trump, 73, and casting doubt on the future of Sanders’ White House bid. Sanders’ losses on Tuesday, coming after a series of sweeping Biden wins in last week’s Super Tuesday contests in 14 states, put Sanders in a deeper hole in the delegate count. Biden leads Sanders 786-645 in the race for the 1,991 delegates needed to clinch the nomination at July’s Democratic convention.
Just two weeks ago, Sanders was seen as the front-runner after an impressive win in Nevada in mid-February, while Biden and the other moderate candidates continued to split the vote of the party’s centrists. “The math says Joe is our prohibitive nominee. We need to bring the party together,” Yang said on CNN.
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