… For months, Democratic voters told us in person, in polls and in focus groups that they didn’t care who won the nomination, they just wanted it to be someone who could beat Donald Trump. The fact that ideology or policy differences were taking a back seat to a proven ability to defeat Trump was supposed to simplify things. Instead, it paralyzed voters and the Democratic candidates. …
Once Biden came up big in South Carolina, Democrats Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer and Pete Buttigieg did something that the GOP establishment wasn’t able/willing to do in 2016: unite around the one candidate who could realistically stop a Sanders nomination. CONT.
Amy Walter, Cook Political Report