The race for the Democratic nomination to be president got much thinner over the weekend when two candidates dropped out after Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary on Saturday. It was finally a chance for Black voters to make their electoral voices heard loud and clear by a slate of White House hopefuls who are dependent on the coveted voting bloc to push them to victory on Election Day.
But without the elusive endorsement of Barack Obama, the last Democratic president whose words carry significant weight in his party, it was unclear which candidate would be able to break out and beyond the rest of the pack.
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Bernie Sanders won two of the first four primary contests, busting out to an impressive lead among delegates. And Biden’s win in South Carolina along with the departures of Pete Buttigieg, who won the Iowa Caucuses, and billionaire Tom Steyer, left the only other candidates in the race — Mike Bloomberg, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren — as increasingly outside chances for securing the nomination.
All of which means that there is all but guaranteed to be additional candidates suspending their campaign after this upcoming Super Tuesday, during which there are primaries and caucuses being held in 14 states and one U.S territory. Those results will probably thin out the race even more — perhaps dwindling it down to being between just Biden and Sanders — to the point that Obama may be compelled to step in and offer up his endorsement much earlier than he did for the crucial 2016 race that Democrats lost to Donald Trump.
