Analysis: Sen. Sanders early wins paved the wave for his later defeats. - SteveKornacki
The next state up was South Carolina, where Biden had long enjoyed comfortable leads. But with Sanders' early state success, and Biden's failures, the polls were already tightening. And now, with his Nevada landslide, it looked quite possible that Sanders would vault past Biden and win the Palmetto State outright — effectively ending the Democratic race on the spot.
Instead, though, it was this moment of seeming triumph that ushered in the swift and decisive demise of the Sanders campaign.When he won Nevada, Sanders instantly moved into a position he had never before occupied: the clear front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. This changed the way the rest of the party thought about him and talked about him. His detractors, declaring that his nomination would alienate swing voters and help President Donald Trump win reelection.
It was in this moment that South Carolina's most influential Democrats, Rep. James Clyburn, issued a deeply personal endorsement of Biden. In the closing days of the South Carolina campaign, Sanders found himself on the defensive, answering questions about hisThe margin shocked even those who'd expected Biden to win: 29 points. Sanders finished with just 20 percent, even less than the paltry 24 percent he'd nabbed four years earlier against Hillary Clinton.
There was — and still is — a giant chunk of Democratic voters who have positive feelings toward Bernie Sanders. Some of them voted for him. But when they came face to face with the possibility that he'd be their nominee for president, the rest of them just wouldn't.Steve Kornacki, author of"The Red and the Blue: 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism," is a national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC.
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