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Well... "the people" didn't want Trump. And the panic after Nevada boiled down to media figures selling Bernie as the next Hillary.
I don't even know if they were strictly wrong. If Bernie had taken the nomination in August, would news media have slandered and undermined his campaign for the next three months? Would Bernie have won in Arizona or Georgia once the business goons at MSNBC and CNN were through with him? Would he have held Virginia once Langley went full bore on him? Would Dems have retaken the House or Senate when Conserva-Dems were trashing their own Presidential nominee? Would a third party candidate have utterly sabotaged things?
Biden was the safe pick for a plurality of voters that only cared about Not-Trump. And that's what national news sold to people on the fence. It could have just as easily been Buttigieg or Klobacher or Beto, if they'd demonstrated even the slightest inclination to run well nationally. Just not Bernie.