Headline Roundup March 2, 2020
Perspectives: Biden, Sanders Elevated as Dems' 2020 Frontrunners After Dropouts
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National Review (News)
The establishment has consolidated incredibly rapidly around Joe Biden after his South Carolina triumph.
Most importantly, Amy Klobuchar and Peter Buttigieg have both dropped out and are endorsing him. Part of the reason it was difficult to see anyone stopping Bernie was that it was hard to figure how the field could consolidate before Super Tuesday, which on the prior trajectory would have given Bernie an insurmountable delegate lead. Now, the field is at least partly consolidated with the exception of the increasingly pointless Mike Bloomberg campaign and of Elizabeth...
It isn’t hard to imagine a Joe Biden administration in which Kamala Harris is vice president, Michael Bloomberg is treasury secretary, Pete Buttigieg is homeland security secretary, Tom Steyer is climate-change czar and Andrew Yang is commerce secretary—or, well, maybe special envoy for math and numbers and stuff like that.
It is, on the other hand, almost impossible to imagine a Bernie Sanders administration in which that same group of former competitors would unite.
In a nutshell, that illustrates the most basic choice Democrats face now that Mr. Biden’s candidacy...
New York Times (Opinion)
If you’re a Democrat who doesn’t want Bernie Sanders to be the party’s nominee, your choice is now clear: You should vote for Joe Biden.
That’s the implication of Biden’s resounding victory in South Carolina. And Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar — to their credit — have both acknowledged this reality by dropping out of the race.
I realize it was only about a week ago that Biden’s campaign seemed grievously wounded, and he has still won only a single primary. So how has he so quickly become the only...
