Elizabeth Warren retires. The decision after the Super Tuesday flop – and after crippling Sanders

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Warren’s withdrawal would pave the way for Bernie Sanders on the left, especially in the case of a convinced endorsement.

Before collapsing in the polls and the first rounds of primaries, the senator had been for a short period among the frontrunners, showing that not only Sanders could fuel a campaign against the political and economic establishment by counting only on a large number of small donors.

The news of the retreat of the Massachusetts senator – who did not win in her state on Tuesday, where she finished third – follows by one day that of the billionaire and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and – before Super Tuesday – of the former mayor South Bend Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar. Last year the Texan deputy, Beto O’Rourke, retired from the race.

But all of them offered support to former vice president Joe Biden, who is now left alone to compete with Bernie Sanders. A step that is far from taken for granted also by Warren. The deterioration of his relationship with his former friend Sanders during these campaign months is not enough. As Politico writes, citing a source of his entourage: the senator may not give any endorsement, or support one of the two remaining candidates.