Hey President Obama, it’s time
It’s time. There was a window for President Obama to sit back and let Bernie Sanders find his own way toward dropping out of the Democratic primary race, before Obama endorsed Joe Biden. That window was already closing, because there is zero doubt Biden will be the nominee, and we can’t wait forever to unite against Donald Trump. But now things have changed.
The states of Florida, Arizona, and Illinois will vote tomorrow, and Joe Biden will win all three. Thanks to potential lower turnout due to the coronavirus, the margins may end up being larger or smaller than the polls are predicting. But Biden is so far ahead in all three states, he’ll win them by some margin. That said, the Republican Governor of Ohio has spent the evening trying to postpone tomorrow’s Ohio Democratic primary. Georgia and Louisiana have already postponed their upcoming primaries. This whole thing is shutting down.
If there were any doubt at all about the outcome of the Democratic primary race, we’d have to find some other solution for continuing with the voting. But as it stands, Joe Biden is already the nominee. Tomorrow’s voting will cement that, and Bernie Sanders will have no further path to the nomination that doesn’t involve magic wands.
If Sanders doesn’t have the decency and patriotism to drop out tomorrow night, then President Obama needs to step in and end this. Obama can simply endorse Joe Biden on Wednesday and put Sanders’ dead-end campaign out of its misery. We’re trying to take down Donald Trump and we’re in the midst of a pandemic. We can’t allow our chances to be sabotaged by Sanders’ fragile ego and clinical level of stubbornness. It’s time.
