Bernie Sanders: a twice-failed presidential candidate and the Democratic Party’s most consequential loser.

Sanders announced on Wednesday that he is ending his presidential bid. His exit from the race shouldn’t come as a surprise. Sanders suffered a series of losses in important primary states to Joe Biden, who had more than 1,200 delegates by mid-March, when the coronavirus pandemic ground the campaign to a halt. Sanders had only about 900 delegates. The winning candidate must win at least 1,991 delegates. To prevent Biden from becoming the nominee, Sanders would have needed to win more than 60% of the delegates in remaining primary states. It seems Sanders looked at the electoral map and finally concluded this would be impossible.