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Bernie Sanders Meets His Biggest Threat

Sanders’s biggest obstacle is not any one of his opponents but a party establishment that remains nervous about his potential nomination.
Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Senator Bernie Sanders knew he wasn’t going to win South Carolina, and he knew he didn’t need to win South Carolina. So by the time polls closed today, he was long gone.

As the Democratic front-runner, he had that luxury.

“You can’t win ’em all,” Sanders told a rally in Virginia tonight before congratulating former Vice President Joe Biden on his first primary win.

The real march to the party’s presidential nomination was merely a hiccup, and nothing more.

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