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While former vice president Joe Biden is leading in the race to become the Democratic nominee for the past two weeks, recent events have given senator Bernie Sanders a lead as well. The Vermont senator managed to win over the Northern Mariana Islands caucus.
Over the weekend, the Northern Mariana Islands held caucuses to award six delegates to the one who would win. A total of 132 people took part in voting which later revealed that Sanders won over Biden by 27 points. Tulsi Gabbard, the only other presidential candidate, did not receive any votes, making it a split between Biden and Sanders. Sanders would then receive four delegates while Biden would get two.
While Sanders would gain most of the delegates from the Northern Mariana Islands, the gap between his and Biden’s numbers are still very large, almost impossible to catch up. Biden would remain to be the one most likely to win most of the delegates in the presidential race and therefore become the Democratic nominee in the Democratic National Convention.
Despite receiving calls to bow out of the presidential race due to the projections, Sanders vowed that he would stick it out until the end. Time will tell whether Sanders can score a big lead in the upcoming primaries to make it a head-to-head race with Biden.
Meanwhile, among the political figures keeping tabs on the upcoming elections is former prime minister Tony Blair. The Guardian reports that Blair has some reservations on the possibility that Sanders may face Donald Trump in November. Blair weighed in on the US elections while speaking to Fareed Zakaria of CNN, saying that there is a big risk when it comes to nominating Sanders to go against Trump, as it would be similar to the defeat faced by British Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who went up against Conservative Boris Johnson.
“When I hear the rhetoric around Bernie Sanders, who by the way is obviously a very capable guy, it’s eerily familiar to anyone who’s just watched the debacle unfold in the British Labor party and our election defeat in the UK which is essentially the worst in our 120-year history,” said Blair.
