Primary Democrats: Biden comforted by the withdrawals of Buttigieg and Klobuchar before Super Tuesday

The alignment of the planets is starting to show for Joe Biden. In a few days, the ex-vice-president of Barack Obama, made a real rocking in the race for the White House. Big victory in South Carolina, abandonment of Pete Buttigieg, then that on Monday of Amy Klobuchar, who gives him his support: the good news is linked for Joe Biden in the Democratic primary before the "Super Tuesday", which he hopes to emerge as the only one capable of blocking Bernie Sanders.

Senator Amy Klobuchar will appear next Monday at her side during a campaign rally in Dallas, Texas, one of the 14 American states called to vote during Tuesday's "super" election day. A new abandonment which comes just in time after that of Pete Buttigieg. The Democratic Home White peloton has only five competitors left and Joe Biden has clearly cleared the way for the center.

Biden rampart at Sanders

But before the primary comes down to a Biden-Sanders duel between two septuagenarians in very distant positions, the former vice-president of the United States will still have to compose Tuesday with a third man: Mike Bloomberg. The latter, which is among the ten largest fortunes in the world, dared a new tactic by skipping the first four states (Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina) to decide in the primary.

The 78-year-old New York businessman, who has already spent more than half a billion dollars on political ads, a record, is playing big for his entry. A marked underperformance would almost kill his campaign in the bud and leave Joe Biden as the only moderate bulwark against Bernie Sanders, whose ideas on the far left are worrying part of the Democratic establishment. The latter having for the moment pulled the chestnuts from the fire of this beginning of the Democratic primaries.

"People do not want a revolution," said Joe Biden, 77, on Sunday after his wide success in South Carolina, posing once again, from years of political experience, as the candidate most likely to dislodge Donald Trump from the White House. " Super Tuesday is about dynamics, and it's with us," CNN Kate Bedingfield, one of her campaign team leaders, said on Monday.

"The Democratic Party wants a Democrat […] not a former Republican"

Revanchard - "The media and analysts had buried us" -, the former right-hand man of Barack Obama also reserved a pike to Mike Bloomberg, a time recorded with the republican party before turning over: "The democratic party wants a democrat […] Not a former Republican ”. Joe Biden, who was campaigning in Texas on Monday, could also benefit to some extent from the withdrawal of Pete Buttigieg, who hunted on the same moderate land as him.

This is in any case the observation made Sunday evening hot by Donald Trump. "Pete Buttigieg stop. All of his + Super Tuesday + voices will go to the sleepy Joe. Good timing, ”wrote the president on Twitter. "The Democrats are starting to get Bernie out of the game for real."

Pete Buttigieg is OUT. All of his SuperTuesday votes will go to Sleepy Joe Biden. Great timing. This is the REAL beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play - NO NOMINATION, AGAIN!

Still unknown a year ago, "Mayor Pete", former mayor of an average city in Indiana, had gradually broken through, to the point of winning in early February the first primary vote in Iowa. But his poor results in Nevada and South Carolina highlighted his difficulty in mobilizing among the black and Hispanic electorate, and the homosexual thirties declared withdrawing in the name of the "rally" necessary to beat Donald Trump in the ballot boxes on November 3.

The Bloomberg danger

But according to the analysis company Morning Consult, the postponement of his voices would be equivalent between Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and Mike Bloomberg. On the eve of "Super Tuesday", the polls were largely favorable to the senator from Vermont. The self-proclaimed socialist - a term very marked on the left in the United States - pointed at the top in three (California, Texas and Virginia) of the four states offering the most delegates for the Convention, which will ultimately decide in July on the name of the democratic candidate in the presidential election.

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Only North Carolina was leaning towards Joe Biden, generally better placed in the voting intentions than Mike Bloomberg, who drew Monday a new campaign advertisement targeting his Democratic rivals, without naming one in particular.

"No other Democrat has created more than 450,000 jobs," said the former mayor of New York. “No other Democrat has shown so much resistance to the gun lobby. No other Democrat has my track record in fighting global warming. No other Democrat will beat Donald Trump. ”