Is This Warren’s Comeback or Last Hurrah?

2. Bernie Sanders

Milwaukee will Bern.

Sanders is the front-runner in the race, is expected to win the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, and has opened up a comfortable national polling lead that should serve him well on Super Tuesday. Given this position, then, he weathered Wednesday’s debate reasonably well, surviving the occasional pot shot from Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, and Joe Biden while most of the fire went elsewhere. The most interesting moment of the debate for Sanders, though, came near the end. Moderator Chuck Todd asked the candidates whether the eventual pledged delegate leader in the race should be the nominee, even if he or she doesn’t have an outright majority of pledged delegates. Only Sanders said that should be the case, while the other candidates all said the process should play its way out with additional ballots and votes for superdelegates. This is an admission from the field that it expects Sanders to have a pledged delegate plurality when the nominating contests conclude. If Sanders’ rivals have arrived at that conclusion, then, it gives more of them reason to stay in the race, and collect however many delegates they can as leverage, rather than consolidate into a single non-Bernie candidate. The Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee is going to be so fun (for reporters and Donald Trump)!

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