Pete Buttigieg pulled off a surprisingly successful presidential run—but beating expectations and winning primaries and caucuses are different things. More, via FiveThirtyEight:
It was going to be hard for white Democrats, both party elites and voters, to mobilize behind a candidate with such weak support among people of color as the center-left alternative to Sanders.
So Buttigieg’s departure may have seemed sudden, but it’s likely that the former mayor was going to struggle on Super Tuesday and possibly run out of campaign funds. So this decision is a face-saving move for him. That said, I don’t think Buttigieg’s departure is solely because he was struggling. Elite voices in the Democratic Partythat the multiple center-left candidates in the race — Biden, Buttigieg, Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, etc. — would divide the non-Sanders vote, potentially allowing Sanders to amass a huge lead in delegates on Super Tuesday while all his rivals finished below 15 percent in many states.
Why would Buttigieg do that? The former mayor might genuinely think that Sanders would be a terrible nominee for the Democratic Party. But there is a potential personal upside for Buttigieg in making this decision too. At his age, Buttigieg has four decades to try to become president. In leaving the race now, he builds goodwill with Democratic Party officials broadly and Biden in particular.
The Buttigieg departure, in fact, suggests that the Democratic Party establishment has learned some lessons from how GOP party elites allowed President Trump to win the Republican nomination over their objections four years ago. Perhaps Democratic elites are still organized and influential enough to affect party politics. In the time between the Nevada caucuses and today, you
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