Not necessarily the best day for Yang to be declaring his candidacy for Mayor considering Warren dropping out will overshadow that news. You hate to see it

Biden wins the membership vote of the Machinists Union: https://twitter.com/jamieson/status/1236797490042716165?s=20

At this hour Biden has won Michigan, a must win for Bernie.

I don't think Bernie should drop out as long as he still has money. He can keep his supporters engaged and give them an opportunity to vote for him and support his issues. He should acknowledge, however, that Biden will win and run a strictly positive campaign accordingly.

One could make a good argument for both. He *should* drop out in that the margins he's losing these states by indicates that he cannot make a turnaround large enough to win the nomination. Things could change rapidly, as this primary has proven, but if things continue to go this badly for Bernie, staying in would just be a waste of time. His campaign's argument for not dropping out likely hinges on the hopes that he will have a great debate performance next week that will help him through the rest of the primary, although who knows how much that would actually change things. For the good of the party, Bernie staying in the race would help turnout downballot, as a one-person primary might encourage voters to stay home. Of course, Bernie would have to hold his back on his attacks to encourage party unity, which Bernie has not exactly been known to do.

I'm gonna say no, there's still 2115 Delegates on the table. And he pulls his punches at every step of the primary, yes he criticizes Joe, but he always stops at a certain point. EX: "My good FRIEND Joe Voted for the Iraq War, which was a terrible descision, My FRIEND". Bernie supporters see that there's more things he can criticise him for, But he pulls his punches to not go that far

Bernie would have to win all the remaining states at the same level he won Vermont.

Corporate media saying increased turnout is helping Biden -https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/487106-turnout-surge-powers-biden-in-primaries

https://twitter.com/AbshirDSM/status/1237536785804054528?s=20

I saw that tweet, proof there was a line at that particular voting place. Results are proof that turnout didn't help Bernie this year. And I doubt everyone in that line is a student, but okay. I mean, Sanders still lost every county, but okay.

The denial is strong with this one.

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I saw that tweet, proof there was a line at that particular voting place. Results are proof that turnout didn't help Bernie this year. And I doubt everyone in that line is a student, but okay. I mean, Sanders still lost every county, but okay. Same things happened in Texas and other states, mostly to students.

Is it time to put Biden in the various races for the general instead of Democratic Primary Winner? What you don't think Roque De La Fuente III or Henry Hewes can pull it off?

What you don't think Roque De La Fuente III or Henry Hewes can pull it off? In all seriousness, we already have Trump inputted because he already clinched and Biden is the only relevant Democrat left and is already officially the presumptive nominee.

Technically, we waited until Trump got a delegate majority.

I should add something where the dropped out people still show up in the main area if they actually receive votes. But with a drop out note.

Yeah, it's done now.

I updated the popular vote totals. For some reason I couldn't add President Trump - he has 1,302 write-in votes so far.

Also I have an Excel file with the Democratic primary totals that I would be glad to share with anyone.

Chronicler (or anyone else...), do you know of a site that breaks down votes in the recent elections between in-person and early/absentee? I could swear I've seen this reported before but cannot find it listed on any of the sites I looked at including the official ones.

Hi Phil - this is not an easy type of statistic to find. You can get absentee results by contacting the counties and asking for the precinct breakdown. I don't know if they include early voting with those numbers or not.

Well dang, I was hoping it was easier than that since I still have my own job to do and don't have time to do that. (Was trying to see if one could determine the effect of holding an in-person election on the spread of coronavirus by state and the results look pretty strong in most cases, but there are, as always, a couple outliers.) Maybe I'll just email 538 or RCP and see if they want to pursue it since they probably have that data saved in a file somewhere.

Where's Comma-Lah Harris?