Bernie Sanders’ campaign says the Vermont senator will “reassess” his candidacy after Tuesday’s primary contests, according to a report in the New York Times.
But Sanders’ senior strategist, Tad Devine, insisted the senator would remain in the race through the convention.
“If we are sitting here and there’s no sort of mathematical way to do it, we will be upfront about that,” Devine told the Times. “If we have a really good day, we are going to continue to talk about winning most of the pledged delegates because we will be on a path toward it. If we don’t get enough today to make it clear that we can do it by the end, it’s going to be hard to talk about it. That’s not going to be a credible path. Instead, we will talk about what we intend to do between now and the end and how we can get there.”
What does this mean? Hard to say. It could be just a reorganization, not uncommon for any campaign going through a rough patch. Dubbed the “Acela Primary,” Tuesday’s contests are expected to make for a good night for Hillary Clinton, who is poised to railroad Sanders in all five states.
Or it could be that the Sanders campaign is signaling that the path to the Democratic nomination is increasingly out of its grasp.
Nearly 462 delegates are up for grabs in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Clinton is leading Sanders by 187 pledged delegates count, according to FiveThirtyEight.com.