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Minnesota State Senator Amy Klobuchar got out of the race on Monday for the presidential candidacy of the Democratic Party. As reported The Associated PressKlobuchar plans to support former Vice President Joe Biden, who returned to the front of the race last Saturday with a resounding victory in the South Carolina primary. In fact, The guardian He reported that He plans to travel to the city of Dallas, Texas, tonight and participate with him in a campaign event.
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Klobuchar, a veteran senator from Minnesota and who had barely achieved a third place in the New Hampshire primary, failed to bring together the vote of the moderates with his message of pragmatism and ability to connect with the voters of the Midwest of the country.
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The decision comes hours after the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, ended their campaigns. Pete Buttigieg, and billionaire Tom Steyer. Both Buttigieg and Klobuchar tried to present themselves as moderate party alternatives, capable of attracting centrist voters and even some Republicans who had doubts about whether to support Donald Trump again in the November elections.
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However, neither managed to obtain a relevant percentage in the South Carolina primary. Buttigieg won 8.2% of the votes, while Klobuchar achieved 3.2%. According to the average of national surveys compiled by Five Thirty EightButtigieg had a voting intention of 10.2% while that of Klobuchar was 4.7%.
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The poor results and expectations, contrasted with the wide victory of Biden, who also bid for first place in the “moderate lane”, they seem to have influenced their decision. In fact, different reports indicated that, like the former senator, Buttigieg is also considering expressing formal support for the candidate.
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In this way, the Democratic camp is left with five candidates: Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Bidenthe senator Elizabeth Warren, the former mayor of New York and tycoon Mike Bloomberg and the congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. However, the latter has not classified the latest debates or obtained significant votes to keep its presidential hopes alive. In fact, at this point there are no delegates.
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The presidential race will increase its intensity exponentially tomorrow with the so-called “Super Tuesday” (Super Tuesday), when voters from 14 states –among them California and Texas, first and third in terms of the number of delegates that distribute nationwide, respectively– go to the polls. California distributes 415 delegates and Texas 228. The state that is in second place, meanwhile, is New York. In total 1,991 are needed, half plus one of the totals.
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In total, the election distributes approximately one third of the total delegates and plays a transcendental role to define the main candidates of the party. After the results of South Carolina and the last defections, everything seems to indicate that Biden and Sanders will contend for the nomination.
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The Vermont senator won the victory in New Hampshire and Nevada, and ended up virtually tied with Pete Buttigieg in Iowa. Also part as a favorite in polls in at least eight of those states, including California and Texas.
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Biden, meanwhile, will bet on taking advantage of the envy achieved in South Carolina and attracting moderate voters of Buttigieg and Klobuchar. In the first three elections, where Sanders outlined himself as the leader, supporters of the moderate sector they emphasized the fact that the sum of their votes far exceeded that obtained by the senator, a banner of the sector considered progressive.
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However, it is not clear who could benefit from Buttigieg’s departure. A survey of Morning Consult made between February 23 and 27, before his goodbye, He said 21% of his followers named Sanders as a second option, 19% Biden, another 19% Senator Elizabeth Warren and 17% Mike Bloomberg.
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Dropouts proportionally reduce the dispersion of votes and distribution of delegates, which markedly increases the possibility that no candidate will reach a simple majority for the July Democratic convention.
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However, the possibility of this happening remains present. If no candidate reaches the figure, there are two possibilities: to reach a consensus among the delegates or to go to a second instance, of the superdelegates, more linked to the traditional current of the Democratic Party. Neither scenario favors Sanders, which does not meet the consensus of historical leaders.
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Super Tuesday elections will play a key role in confirming or refuting the different analyzes.
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