Bernie Sanders must drop out - now - and clear the way for Joe Biden's nomination Editorial [View all]

Bernie Sanders must drop out - now - and clear the way for Joe Biden’s nomination | Editorial
By ORLANDO SENTINEL EDITORIAL BOARD
ORLANDO SENTINEL |
APR 02, 2020 | 11:28 AM

On March 17 — what seems a lifetime ago — Joe Biden beat Bernie Sanders in the Florida Democratic primary.

Beat isn’t strong enough. Biden trounced Sanders. Knocked him out of the park.

Biden got 62% of the vote in Florida; Sanders got 23%. Put another way, Biden took in more than a million votes; Sanders didn’t crack 400,000....

The reason for Biden’s success in Florida and around the country wasn’t all that complicated: Democrats want a candidate who can beat Donald Trump, a person singularly unsuited to serve as president of these United States.

The coronavirus outbreak has proved those get-rid-of-Trump instincts to be spot on. He is the worst possible leader to guide us through the worst national crisis since World War II.

Beating the virus, saving lives and preserving our economy are the nation’s top priorities at this moment. Come this November, the priority is ensuring Trump does not have a second term.

That’s why Sanders needs to drop out of the Democratic primary. Not later. Not after Congress has acted on the present crisis....

Fewer and fewer people are in the mood for the kind of upheaval Sanders trades on. We’re undergoing an upheaval now, and people already are exhausted from it. And we still face long weeks or maybe months of isolation, disruption and uncertainty.

The nation’s going to need someone who can heal, and Bernie — with all his anger, resentment and white-hot revolutionary rhetoric — isn’t that someone....

Sanders can get us past this more quickly and less painlessly if he would just relent.

Leave the race.

Throw your unequivocal support behind Joe Biden.

Help us get through this and be remembered as a patriot.

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