Iowa and New Hampshire are ideal environments for his campaign and political message. If he cannot find traction there, South Carolina isn't going to treat him any more kindly.

Should he stumble, the common sense thing for him to do would be to withdraw and endorse Warren - she being closest to him in ideology.

I generally like Bernie. But if Iowa and New Hampshire don't work for him, I don't see a national campaign working anywhere else. Primaries are oftentimes about momentum, real and perceived. He cannot come out of those two states with no momentum and remain viable.

endorse Warren unless his numbers look really good going into New Hampshire.
I think he would prefer she win than Biden.

I've never understood what goes on in the head of someone who thinks I'm little different from Republican voters, but he really, really has always despised Democrats. When someone tells us who they are and shows us who they are, for over 40 years, we should probably believe him.

I can imagine him officially endorsing Establishment Warren but in reality not coordinating with her and using her name to run his own political game. His VT voters seemingly like him calling himself I-Sanders but voting as a +1 to the Democratic caucus.

Also easy to imagine that if he doesn't get enough delegates to be a presence at the convention, which seems increasingly likely, he might refuse to endorse anyone and take his revolution and residual following to the political streets. (His current senate terms ends in 2024, when he'll be 82 or 83, might not worry about reelection.)

"I am Not Now, Nor Have I Ever Been, a Liberal Democrat." ~ Bernie Sanders

I know that, Senator Sanders. Because I am.

As an Independent.

I was a delegate to the Philadelphia convention and saw how the process works. One key item is that under the rules, a candidate cannot be put into nomination without 300 delegates. https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2020-Call-for-Convention-WITH-Attachments-2.26.19.pdf

Link to tweet

Thanks, Goth

who is proud to be a member of the Democratic Party rather than one using the party for a presidential run, again.

Oh sorry, habit.

According to polling I have seen. So these numbers could shift extremely fast if Biden loses favor and they switch to Sanders.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/442738-poll-almost-one-third-of-biden-supporters-pick-sanders-as-their

no matter how much they wish.

And, I know of no Biden supports who have BS even on their radar.

I've never met one either. That's not to say they don't exist, but I don't know 'em.

I mean I've been reading this 1st and 2nd business for weeks now as if Biden and Sanders are interchangeable. To me, it makes no sense because I don't know any Biden supporters who would willingly jump on Bernie's bandwagon. And I have to believe the reverse is also true. The two men are completely different politically. And yet these polls keep indicating this shifting contest between the two.

Makes. No. Sense.

ridiculous of dream worlds, Sanders could not have possibly won the nomination after May 3 -- at that point, he needed 984 more pledged delegates, but there were only 933 available in the remaining contests. ... Sanders supporters were tricked into believing a false narrative. Once only one candidate can win the nomination, of course the DNC gets to work on that person's behalf."

http://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044

Conspiracy theory.

Maybe it was a similar situation as Al Franken found himself in.

then he had a golden chance (since his campaign never really ended after '16) to get a huge, insurmountable lead on the rest of the field and he fucked that up as well...

It's tragic because if he had people who were at least half smart managing his strategy he'd be president now, but the fact that he hired the same old ideological nutbars who see Dems as the real enemy and not the GOP means nobody has learned shit...

He's done. The best he could possibly hope for now is a Veep slot.