By Dave Andrusko

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By the time you read this post, Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders may have moved on from merely “assessing” his campaign to win the Democrats’ presidential nomination to something more definitive.
Such temporizing was inevitable after fellow pro-abortionist, former Vice President Joe Biden, took Sanders to the woodshed in Tuesday’s primaries.
“As I said yesterday, we are assessing the state of our campaign, there’s not going to be an election for another three weeks,” the Vermont senator told CNN Wednesday. “We are talking to our supporters. Anybody who suggests that at this point we are ending the campaign is not telling the truth.”
Sanders did not answer questions on whether he has a timeframe for making a decision or if he thinks there’s a pathway for him to win the Democratic nomination.
Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir made a similarly opaque comment in a statement released earlier in the day: “The next primary contest is at least three weeks away. Sen. Sanders is going to be having conversations with supporters to assess his campaign.”
By sweeping Arizona, Florida, and Illinois, Biden now has 1,132 delegates to Sanders’ 817, an advantage of 315. “Before his victories Tuesday, Biden had a 154-delegate lead over Sanders,” NBC News reported.
CNN said “parts of the campaign appeared to halt.”
“An aide confirmed to CNN that the campaign had stopped running digital ad and had not booked TV ads past last week. The campaign has also issued no new fundraising appeals.”
It’s difficult to fathom how just a few weeks ago, a Sanders’ victory seemed all but inevitable. Following a very rough beginning, Biden was written off by the commentariat.
Then Biden won a convincing victory in South Carolina (the state he had always characterized as his “firewall,”) and the race for the nomination took an abrupt turn as rival after rival dropped out.
Two quick points.
First, whether the nominee is Biden or Sanders, Democrats will have as their standard-bearer a man whom the Abortion Industry will rally around. Biden has completed a 180 on the Hyde Amendment, groveling to prove he is not only committed to abortion on demand but also to forcing the citizenry to pay for them.
The public will have a stark choice between either of these men and pro-life President Donald Trump.
Second, as Byron York wrote this morning, Biden has long since abandoned positions that would allow him to pretend he is a “moderate.” As York wrote
It’s an indisputable fact that the Democratic Party has moved left in recent years. Now, the party is about to choose a standard bearer in the person of former Vice President Joe Biden, and what has become clear is that Biden has not only shifted left with his party over the years, he has taken significant leftward steps in recent weeks.
Nowhere but nowhere has that race to the Left been more pronounced than Biden’s whole-hearted, full-throated embrace of abortion. In his one (and likely only) one-on-one debate with Sanders, Biden said Sunday evening that he would
send immediately to the desk of the United States Congress, when I’m elected president — if I’m elected president, a codification of Roe v. Wade amended by Casey, because I think it is a woman’s right to choose. I think it’s a woman’s opportunity to be able to make that decision.
“Codification of Roe” has replaced the long since discarded mantra of “abortion safe, legal and rare” as the mischaracterization of choice for pro-abortion Democrats.
“Codification of Roe” is abortion-speak for abortion on demand throughout the entire 40 weeks of pregnancy, funded by an unwilling public. It also means a refusal to allow a debate on the Born-Again Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Babies who survive an abortion are just as much on their own as babies in utero.
Over the next day or two, it will be fascinating to see what the results are of Sanders “assessing” his campaign.