2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do they call baseball games in the 7th inning because one team is ahead? [View all]YouDig
(2,280 posts)Right now, there's still voting going on, and he's not going to drop out before the last ballots are cast, nor should he. He's come this far, just let everyone vote.
But if he's behind in elected delegates after all the voting, it would really be better for him to concede before the convention, rather than actually forcing a floor vote. I guess he could try swaying the superdelegates for a few weeks, but that's not going to work.
It's much better for the party to have Bernie giving a speech in support of Hillary at the convention, instead of giving a speech about how really he should be the nominee because Hillary has a SuperPAC and takes money from Wall Street. And the "contested convention" thing he said worried some people about that. You're right that Hillary needs to win over Bernie's voters, but a key person in that is going to be Bernie.