Don’t be so sure that someone like Mayor Pete or even Bernie could not win. I never thought Obama would win. Then, I met all of his brain-dead voters who are ruled by feeling or ‘sending the right messages’. They are roughly 54% of the population.
The hope is, most will be too discouraged to even vote, seeing how close Trump is to re-election.
Think about the people in New York who decided to re-elect
deBlasio. There are many Blue States, full of people like that, who will vote for an empty Breadbox if it has a Democrat bumper sticker on it.
At this juncture it’s about what candidates the DNC and others have already decided would be the last two candidates standing. Recall what DNC head Debbie Swatzerman did to Bernie before, she was fired and promptly hired by Hillary......so it’s just a matter of musical chairs when they do get caught. And Debbie was ever present and sitting in on Pencilnecks basement hearings....
The voters are simply pawns they want to keep stirred up one way or another until the actual election... But the real power for elections is handled behind the scenes and this we don’t often see.
So voters ‘choice’ of candidates is done by others, with the exception of Trump who rightly appealed to the voters directly and called a spade a spade on both party sides. ..which is also why Bernie keeps rising back up.