It’s time for Bernie Sanders to drop out of the Democratic primary. He doesn’t have a path forward, and staying in the race at this point makes him nothing more than a nuisance candidate. His entire argument for winning at every single rally is that he’ll expand the Democratic coalition, but what we’ve seen thus far is a pattern in which he isn’t expanding, only contracting. Democratic voters are rejecting Sanders nearly everywhere with the exception of a few states, and that’s not enough to win the Democratic nomination.

Unlike four years ago, in a shock upset where Sanders narrowly pulled a victory out of Michigan against Hillary Clinton by a margin of 0.23%, Tuesday night was different. Sanders’s victory over Clinton was surprising because days before the primary, Clinton was ahead of him by 21 percentage points. However, unlike 2016, Joe Biden did what Clinton was unable to do, and won Michigan — not narrowly, but by a healthy margin. Biden also won Missouri and destroyed Sanders in Mississippi with black voters.