U.S. Democratic Presidential Candidate Sanders Withdraws
Xinhua News Agency, Washington, April 8 (Reporter Xu Jianmei and Deng Xianlai) US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced the cessation of election campaign on the 8th to win the Democratic Vice President Joe Biden's nomination of the Democratic presidential candidate Leveled the road.
Sanders said in a video speech that day, in the past few weeks, he and the team and many supporters have conducted an "honest evaluation" of their campaign prospects. Despite the support of a large number of young voters and working class across the United States, given Biden ’s current lead in the Democratic National Congress ’s votes, he is “almost impossible” to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
Sanders said that with the new crown epidemic sweeping the United States, it would make him uneasy to continue a battle that could not be won. Based on the judgment that the nomination will not succeed, he decided to stop his campaign.
Sanders is 78 years old and announced his election for president of the United States in February 2019. As one of the representatives of the "progressive", Sanders advocates the implementation of "universal medical insurance" and the exemption of public college tuition and other policies. In 2016, he ran for the first time as president of the United States, but lost to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic election.
In the early stage of the Democratic preliminary elections in February this year, Sanders performed strongly, with a higher support rate among young voters and Hispanic voters than other Democratic candidates, but failed to effectively expand the voter base. After Biden's victory in South Carolina at the end of February, the moderate Democrats of the Democrats withdrew and united in support of Biden. The Democratic preliminary election formed a pattern of duel between Biden and Sanders. In the preliminary elections since March, Biden's leading advantage has continued to expand, and the party's calls for Sanders to withdraw early have increased.
Since the middle of March, affected by the epidemic, many states in the United States postponed the pre-election and the election of state representatives. Both Biden and Sanders campaigns have been suspended for several weeks. In the Republican Party, the current President Trump won the required number of party representatives in mid-March and has locked the Republican nomination for presidential candidates.
Analysts here believe that the new crown epidemic is reshaping the face of the 2020 US presidential election, and the evolution of the epidemic will largely determine the election process and results.