Amy Klobuchar ends her campaign a day before Super Tuesday

Amy Klobuchar at a campaign event. BBC/Getty.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar has ended her campaign a day before Super Tuesday and is expected to endorse Joe Biden. BBC. Klobuchar did not win any states and came in a distant sixth place in the South Carolina race, but she did gain seven delegates. Klobuchar tried to sell herself as a moderate alternative and often clashed with Bernie Sanders on his socialist programs. With Klobucher out, five Democrats remain in the race including Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Michael Bloomberg and Tulsi Gabbard. 

My Comment:

And there goes another one. Again the timing is more than a little suspicious. Klobuchar hadn't won any races but there was a good chance she would have won her home state of Minnesota. She wouldn't have won any other states but she could have at least said she won her own state. It's possible that her internal polling said something different and she dropped out to avoid embarrassment but I don't think that is what going on here. 

Indeed, like Tom Steyer (how irrelevant was that guy? I didn't even write a post up when he dropped out) and Pete Buttigieg, I think this has nothing to do with the candidate themselves and everything to do with stopping Bernie Sanders. Joe Biden is now the last great hope to do so and by getting out of his way Klobuchar hopes that he can finish the old socialist off. And by doing so now she and the other two candidates are likely securing a position in the Biden White House in the small chance that he wins. 

But why did Klobuchar's campaign fail? I'm not sure but I always found her extremely boring and way too emotional to be presidential. She just isn't that great of a speaker and though she supposedly had one good debate performance I really didn't agree and found her to be pretty bad in every debate I watched. Indeed, half the time she seemed like she was going to break out into tears when she talked and the other half I thought I was going to do so because she was so boring! 

Worse is the fact that Klobuchar wanted to take up the moderate lane but she never really was moderate. Sure, she wasn't full socialism like Sanders and Warren but other than the minor disagreements on healthcare (one of the most boring issues the candidates consistently talk about) she was indistinguishable from the rest of the Democrats in terms of policies. There was no Jim Webb this election cycle and I think it probably hurt the Democrats chances. If you want to court moderate voters you actually have to have moderate positions but Klobuchar never came close to doing so on issues like immigration, gun rights or what have you. 

I also kind of think that her and Pete Buttigieg killed each other at the last debate over Klobuchar forgetting who the President of Mexico is. Those two fought each other to a standstill and I think it destroyed both of their campaigns. If they were in it to win it they would have been attacking Biden and Sanders instead but attacked each other. The fight also made both of them look bad as Buttigieg looked like a bully and Klobucher looked like both scared and kinda stupid. It wasn't a good moment for either of them and it came to define their campaign at the end. 

As for the rest of the race I think that both Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren will be the next to go. Bloomberg spend half a billion dollars on his Super Tuesday strategy but there is no evidence that it will pay off. Though Bloomberg has more money that God himself, even he has to realize when a strategy isn't working. And Warren might win Massachusetts, but I don't see her winning any other states and will likely drop out after the voting comes in tomorrow. 

That leaves Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard. Biden, despite his many terrible flaws and oncoming senility will have to try and defeat Sanders, the crusty old socialist who has the support of the young and foolish. It will be an utter mess and I think there is a very good chance that Sanders gets screwed again, this time at a brokered convention. 

As for Tulsi Gabbard, who knows what she is doing? It's pretty clear that she has no path but that has been clear for months now. The establishment media hates her and she isn't running for congress again so I think she is just running on principle now. She has little to gain but nothing to lose so I think she sticks it out until the convention.