Leaving Biden blank for the day ... did Sanders confuse Democrats' accounts?

Mohammed Al-Minshawi-Washington

Social Democratic-oriented Senator Bernie Sandzer congratulated former Vice President Joe Biden for winning the Democratic Party card to compete with incumbent President Donald Trump in the November elections.

Sanders' congratulations came during a speech addressed to his supporters, in which he announced the suspension of his campaign and his withdrawal from the democratic race, leaving the stage blank for Joe Biden.

Sanders stressed that stopping his presidential campaign does not mean stopping his progressive movement seeking to create a more socially and economically just society.

Although Sanders was defeated in the Democratic race for the second time after his defeat in 2016 in favor of Hillary Clinton, Sanders succeeded in pushing the Democratic Party's agenda left on a number of important issues, chiefly health care.

Sanders stated that his name will remain in the following races in the states that did not witness a preliminary election in order to gather the largest number of delegates to participate in the General Conference of the Democratic Party scheduled for next August. Sanders aims to use his delegates as a force "pressure and influence to change the Democratic Party's agenda."

Biden is advancing
Biden leads 1,196 delegates compared to 883 in favor of Sanders, and the candidate to win needs to obtain 1991 votes out of a total of 3979 delegates.

Because of the spread of the Corona virus emerging (Covid-19), many states have postponed their primary elections that were scheduled for last March and April. More than half of the US states will see elections in the next two months.

Sanders did not express in clear language his support for Biden's candidacy, but stressed that after the party's general conference, "we must unite in order to defeat Trump, the worst president in modern American history."

Sanders focused on what his broad movement achieved in many states, and cited that "There are Republican and Democratic states that raised the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, and the issue of providing health care to all Americans has become an important issue. Our ideas are no longer extreme or strange as some claim, they have become The thoughts of our movement are among the natural ideas circulating in various states.

A praise for Sanders
In this context, Nera Tandin, president of the Center for American Progress, a think tank close to the Democratic Party, saluted Senator Sanders and said that "he has provided great services to America and the Democratic Party, he has put forward many important ideas that can move our country forward. I appreciate the importance of his voice, sincerity and honesty." And under his leadership, Sanders will be a strong support in the battle to defeat Trump. "

Doctor and Democratic activist Eugene Joe called on Democratic candidate Joe Biden to adopt the Sanders idea of ​​providing health insurance to all Americans.

"Biden should support health insurance for all," Eugene said in a tweet. "It does not mean that someone else put it forward not to push forward from the party's candidate for 30 million Americans who do not have health insurance at a time when the country faces an unprecedented epidemic of its spread and gravity."

For his part, President Trump tweeted, surprising that Sanders wanted to win more delegates, and said, "Bernie Sanders wants more delegates ... What is happening ?!"

Sanders' exit from the Democratic Race leaves the way for Joe Biden after all competitors withdraw.

On November 3, the United States is preparing for presidential elections between the two largest presidential candidates in its history, with Biden, 77, and Trump, 73, seeking a second four-year term.

A recent opinion poll conducted by the ABC network and the Washington Post between March 22 and March 25, showed 845 American voters, Joe Biden beat President Trump, and Biden won 49% of the votes of the respondents, compared to 47% In favor of Trump.