Establishment Democrats’ Best Chance to Derail Sanders Faces More Obstacles
- Biden regains strength and some call for rivals to drop out
- Super Tuesday’s field of five candidates would be largest ever
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The Democratic Party’s best chance to stop Bernie Sanders from winning its presidential nomination comes on Super Tuesday, but his two top challengers -- a newly buoyant Joe Biden and a beleaguered Michael Bloomberg -- both face huge obstacles to doing so.
Sanders is heavily favored to come out of Super Tuesday with a slew of delegates and perhaps an insurmountable lead, despite deep worry in establishment Democratic circles that he would lose to President Donald Trump. So if the nominee is going to be anyone but Sanders, Democrats in the 14 states voting in the single-biggest day of balloting need to choose an alternative.