• fidodo@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’m not quite following, so the right side of the party consolidated because they didn’t want to split their vote, but wasn’t the left side already consolidated behind Bernie?

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      9 months ago

      There are more conservative and moderate democratic voters in South Carolina than there are Bernie voters. They consolidated that wing by having everyone drop out which made Biden the sole remaining non-social democrat or democratic socialist option

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        9 months ago

        So the idea is that if it weren’t for the momentum from that first state that Bernie would have won?