Mini Mike Bloomberg announced he is dropping out and will endorse Biden.
This basically sets up a two man race between Sanders and Biden.
It now looks unlikely there will be a contested convention as the candidates that dropped out have only about 130 delegates out of 3979 (3.2%). Warren likely cost Sanders from winning the majority of delegates last night and she has no realistic path to victory going into last night.
Meanwhile, trump is doing his best to sow discord within the democratic voters, trying to make Sanders supporters believe that the DNC is trying to prevent him from getting the nomination, which is probably true, and by pointing out that Warren cost Sanders MA.
@PrimeNumber7 Im not surprised to see Bloomberg quitting the race as hes already burned lots of his personal cash for these elections without getting any meaningful results, also its pertinent to note that hes declared his support for Biden so lets see if itll help Biden or not. Further I remember @squatz had already predicted that this might happen, and I too believe that Dems wont allow Bernie to win and due to this I expect his supporters to vote for Trump.
Source:
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2020/03/04/election-2020-michael-bloomberg-drops-out-of-presidential-race/4951533002/
I still think that the DNC is going to fight tooth and nail to steal this one from Bernie. I have a few theories on how this is going to be done. Obviously all of this is given that Bernie doesn't have a majority of the delegates (1996 delegates, something around that) at the time of the convention:
1. The Moderates Band Together - Not sure who would be the to lead this coalition. But this is pretty much the line of thinking that Pete, Klobuchar, Bloomberg, and Biden all work together in someway to win the nomination. If they all pooled their polling numbers together, they'd be a true formidable foe to Bernie. They could even keep running at the moment and try to pick up as many delegates as they can, using their delegates on one another.
2. The Re-Rise of Biden - Biden had a strong second place finish in Nevada, exactly what his campaign needed. If he has a real strong finish in South Carolina, like his campaign has been relying HEAVILY on, then he could be back in the race. He'd still need some of the other moderates to drop out to REALLY have a shot, but even without this he could show himself to be the only one who could go against Bernie. Horrible candidate in my eyes, but possible.