The blunt victory in the caucus from Nevada this past weekend seems to signal the arrival of the time of the all against Bernie Sanders in the overcrowded race for the Democratic nomination. The next stop of the primary elections will be on February 29 in southern South Carolina, where the senator enters uncertain waters launched to conquer the African-American vote, having shown that he has seduced a good percentage of young people and Hispanics. They will be turbulent waters, although not for lack of proof. In that same State, Sanders lost the 2016 primary against Hillary Clinton by a monumental beating with 14% against 86% of his opponent.
The Vermont Senator Joe Biden has his biggest obstacle in the south. With almost 30% intention of the black vote, the former vice president of Barack Obama, which so far has had disappointing results, is placed at the head of the polls in the first southern state to vote. The caucus in South Carolina it will be this Saturday and the polls mark the trend towards Biden, with 24.5%; Sanders with 21.5%; Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren fighting the fourth position behind the millionaire Tom Steyer who ranks third.
In favor of Biden also plays an important public support, which supposedly will make number three of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, Jim Clyburn, which will galvanize the black vote around the former vice president. Clyburn declared this weekend that he will let him know who he supports after the Democratic debate on Tuesday in Charleston and stressed that the name will not coincide with any of the winners of Iowa, New Hampshire or Nevada – that is, neither Bernie Sanders, nor Pete Buttigieg-.
The Sanders campaign will have to prove next Saturday if it has been able in four years to solve the mistakes that caused that cataclysm of 2016, among others, to have a little diverse staff, too masculine, too white and oblivious to the problems of the black community . Then, the commitment to African-Americans came late and badly, as John Solomon, an African-American hired by the Sanders campaign as an organizer, told a while later, and who was disappointed when his superiors gave him the task of transporting people around Iowa in a van. In his opinion, it was the tactic of having a black template with the sole purpose of being able to say it. Nothing else.
The result that leaves the polls of South Carolina will be decisive to declare what is already informal: that the establishment Democrat is in panic mode before the possible Democratic nomination of Bernie Sanders to the White House. According to Matt Bennett, of the center-left group Third Way, never before in 30 years of politics had he lived such an inevitable curse. “Never before have so many people called or sent me messages and emails like after caucus from Nevada to express their pessimism and grief ”, explains in the Politico publication.
In the opinion of Bennett, the moderate Democrats believe that Sanders’ victory in the primaries would mean an assured re-election of Donald Trump “It’s about that feeling of falling into the abyss hopelessly. In addition, I think we would also lose the House of Representatives [recuperada en 2018]. Today is the most depressed day I’ve ever been in politics, ”he insisted. Jim Cowan and Jim Kessler, president and vice president of Third Way, believe that Sanders’ political agenda makes him, by definition, ineligible for the presidency, since they consider that the United States has never opted for a president So to the left.
In the all against Bernie Sanders, the former mayor of South Bend (Indiana) used his defeat admission speech in Nevada to attack the big winner of the night. Buttigieg argued that Sanders is too divisive and therefore unable to defeat Donald Trump next November.
“Before we rush to nominate Sanders in the only opportunity we have to end this president, let’s take a look at what is at stake, for our party, for our values and for those who have a lot to lose, ”said the former mayor. “I think the best way to defeat Donald Trump is to expand and galvanize a majority that supports us on critical issues,” Buttigieg said in favor of his cause. “Senator Sanders believes in an inflexible and ideological revolution that leaves out the majority of Democrats, not to mention the majority of Americans,” he concluded.
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