Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Bad News for Three Democratic Candidates

Castro, O’Rourke and Sanders are all making ill-advised decisions. Don’t bet on any of them.

September 16, 2019 at 10:30 AM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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How about starting the week with three short items from the Democratic nomination contest:

I’m not counting out Sanders, Castro or O’Rourke. Each of them has some strengths. But they’re probably at the bottom of the nine remaining candidates that (barring any flukes) might plausibly win, and it won’t be shocking if one of the Texans doesn’t even make it to Iowa.