This is a Cato Special Podcast. I'm Caleb Brown. Super Tuesday has come and gone with

big implications for the Democratic nomination for president.

Joe Biden emerged as a big winner in both endorsements from recent former

opponents and delegate count, but the race is far from over.

Cato's David Bowes offers some thoughts on how voters might have reacted to the prospect of a Bernie Sanders nomination.

Well, it was a big night for Joe Biden and it's come down to a two-man race and one of the things that we saw was that Democrats, the establishment,

but apparently voters too started panicking about the idea of running a socialist against President Trump.

And so you saw Klobuchar and Buda Judge both drop out immediately after South Carolina.

You saw Beto O'Rourke suddenly come out of hiding they

all endorsed Joe Biden on the eve of Super Tuesday. You had other leading

Democrats like former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and I think what that showed was

they never took Sanders all that seriously and once they realized our party might

actually nominate a socialist who Hector's people,

they didn't want that and it looks like the voters didn't want it either.

And it's worth noting, Bernie Sanders, broadly speaking, not a Democrat.

Well, that's right. He was an elector for the Socialist Workers Party back in 1980,

and he campaigned for some of their candidates.

He's always been an independent on the ballot in Vermont.

So yes, it's an interesting thing that a significant portion of the Democratic Party was prepared to vote

for a guy who isn't really a member of the party and that kind of reflects I think the weakening of the party establishment. A lot of people don't like that. My friend

Jonathan Roush has written about how it's bad for politics that you don't have

party establishments with more clout than they did and the same thing

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