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The fundamental question of this primary is still pretty simple: Can the Democratic Party as currently constituted stop Bernie Sanders from getting the nomination?
The title, or marking, of the “front-runner” in a presidential race is one of the time-honored traditions in electoral politics. It sets the narrative of the race, it gives all the other candidates their target to shoot for, and shoot at for that matter, and brings a hierarchy to the proceedings.
And like it or not, the front-runner for the Democratic 2020 nomination as it stands right now, today, in the year of our Lord 2019, is Bernie Sanders.
I know, I know, polls show Joe Biden leading. But he isn’t running if he is smart, and if he does he will be quickly buzzsawed down to a nub the way he has been the previous two times he ran. And that was before he had women coming out of the woodwork to comment on his propensity to get handsy on video.
No, the leader right now is Sanders, and the quarterly fundraising haul shows it isn’t just the poll numbers he is leading in.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont raised $18.2 million over the first six weeks of his presidential bid, his campaign announced Tuesday, a display of…
