Sanders campaign was SHOCKED when field narrowed, because they really thought 30% would win it

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90. 10 Lessons The Progressive Left Can Take From Bernie Sanders' Campaign

You cannot win a race with 30% of the vote https://medium.com/@jeremynfassler/10-lessons-the-progressive-left-can-take-from-bernie-sanders-campaign-97003bbec52c

While I was never on board the Sanders train, I feel bad for his supporters — not the bros, mind you — but the honest, hard-working people who want to see the Democratic Party move further to the left. It sucks when the candidate you support loses, and you are entitled to your hurt feelings. But I hope that by analyzing why Sanders lost, we can all gleam valuable lessons about building build a better mousetrap not just for Progressives, but for anyone who hopes to work on a campaign or run for office someday.....

FIVE: HAVE A BACKUP PLAN.
Prior to Super Tuesday, pundits assumed Sanders would win the nomination the same way Trump did — by amassing a plurality of delegates despite only getting about 30% of the popular vote. Given how many candidates were in the race at that time, this strategy seemed sensible, but they were thrown off course when Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar dropped out and endorsed Biden. According to one aide, the campaign never developed a backup plan to win with an outright majority. This goes back to lesson two: if Sanders had courted them, perhaps they might have endorsed him. Instead he blamed their decisions on “the Establishment [wanting] to make sure that people coalesced around Biden and not me” and not his campaign’s failure to plan out alternate paths to the nomination.