Maybe they realized that Sanders would get a larger percentage of delegates if they all stayed in and split the vote. By keeping it between Sanders and Biden, the delegates would split more evenly, meaning fewer for Sanders.
It could be that the goal is not to get the nomination for Biden, but to back Biden enough to deny Sanders the majority of delegates, and then broker someone else at the convention.
-PJ
Try this theory. The intense interest by the DNC Machine in Biden getting the nomination is more about keeping Bernie’s fanatics from taking over the party machinery, rather than who gets to run against Trump.
Trump’s ascendancy in the GOP and the internal destruction wrought by him to the Bush/Country Club/Never Trump leeches who have run the GOP for years has been a big blow.
The Dem’s don’t want that to happen to them. It may be more about who gets to run the machine, rather than the nomination.
“Maybe they realized that Sanders would get a larger percentage of delegates if they all stayed in and split the vote.“
That’s right. There are two types of Democrats: Bernie, and everyone else.
Bernie apparently didn’t get the memo that as a Democrat you are supposed to keep your Marxist beliefs and your hatred of the USA a secret. He’s going around telling the truth and ruining everything!
The other candidates know they are supposed to lie.
Ironically, if they nominate one of the liars, they will lose because they are liars. If they nominate Bernie, he will lose because he tells the truth about being a Marxist.