Bernie Sanders looks to knock out Biden as pressure builds on Democrats
HOUSTON — Energized by his landslide victory in the Nevada caucuses, Sen. Bernie Sanders turned his focus to President Donald Trump on Sunday while his campaign made plans to try to win the coming South Carolina primary and amass an insurmountable delegate lead on Super Tuesday next week.
The Democratic race is now entering a critical nine-day stretch that could effectively determine the nomination, with the future of multiple candidates riding in part on the next televised debate Tuesday night, the South Carolina vote and the Super Tuesday contests. At the same time, the anti-Sanders camp remains split: Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Buttigieg and Klobuchar are all insisting on staying in the race while Bloomberg is spending heavily on advertising in Super Tuesday states like Texas and California, where Sanders could build up a delegate lead if the remaining vote is divided.
That’s when Sanders is hoping to pile up delegates while also inflicting symbolic blows on his opponents by winning in some of their home states, including Warren’s Massachusetts and Klobuchar’s Minnesota, both of which Sanders plans to visit before March 3, according to aides. The former vice president suggested that Sanders, an avowed democratic socialist, could hurt Democrats’ chances of maintaining control of the House in 2020 and winning back the Senate. And he sought to undermine his opponent’s chances to win black voters by boasting that he’s had Obama’s “back the whole time” while saying Sanders weighed a primary bid against him in the 2012 election.
In an interview, Clyburn said he would disclose his support Wednesday, the day after the next debate. He cited his “longtime friendship with Joe,” but otherwise declined to reveal his preference. However, a Democratic official close to the Biden campaign, speaking on the condition of anonymity so as not to reveal internal planning, said they expected to receive Clyburn’s support.
However, a number of moderate Democrats, some affiliated with Biden and others uncommitted, said it was Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Steyer who were only helping Sanders by staying in the race as spoilers.
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