When is Bernie going to drop out?

[Fargobison]

I'm not afraid at all of a 2016 reprise. Sanders isn't really drawing the same blood out of Biden that he drew from Hillary. Even if he was nobody is paying attention here; the 2016 primaries (both of them) were all-consuming media spectacles and for obvious reasons the 2020 primary post Mini Tuesday the opposite.

If anything Bernie is trying to use the campaign and the public health catastrophe to push Biden to the left, and he has a very good case for doing so.

How is losing Wisconsin by 30 points going to push Biden left? He is doing more damage than good by staying in, there was a time for him to cash in his chips and that was a while ago. After each crushing defeat he is only going to lose more and more relevancy.

[Fargobison]

Meh, I didn't say I thought it was a particularly effective strategy. Unsurprisingly, Elizabeth Warren is apparently doing much more to effectively push Biden left than Sanders is. But, Sanders is probably (rightly) concluding that within his style of politics, staying in the campaign will have a larger effect than sitting on the sidelines, even if the effect is marginal.

I think he would be a lot better off by calling Biden, trying to get the concessions/promises he can and then stepping out of the race after endorsing him. Obviously he was in a much better position to do this weeks ago.

I just don't get what Bernie is thinking he is getting out of this, it isn't like Biden is polling any worse. If his numbers were sagging I could get it but if anything Bernie is the one that is polling worse.