Analysis: The first two contests revealed how hard it will be for Sen. Sanders to expand his base in the Democratic primary.
It's a dynamic that bodes poorly for him in either an extended primary season with a streamlined field, or in a brokered convention situation.
"I think that there's going to be at least four or five, six candidates right at the top," Shakir said."You don't hear me thinking or believing that this is somehow a two-man race." Nearly every Democrat has a two-part theory about how Sanders' winning a plurality of delegates could play out: The first part is that it would be hard for the party to stop him from taking the nomination if he had a large plurality — more than 40 percent and far larger than his closest competitor — and that there is some undetermined lower threshold at which his claim to the nomination would become less powerful.
The contrast between the populist progressive Sanders, who has rejected the Democratic Party label because of his distaste for the establishment's ties to corporate power and campaign money, and the alpha capitalist, former Republican Bloomberg is unambiguous on economic matters. Sanders would love nothing more than to run his campaign solely against Bloomberg and Trump, a pair of fabulously wealthy New Yorkers, on the David-vs.
The silver lining of Sanders' dark cloud is that all the other candidates also have obstacle-filled paths to the nomination.
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