Google Trends: Bernie Sanders Dominates Rest of Democratic Field on Super Tuesday as Coronavirus Overshadows them All
Sanders Dominates Search Results on Super Tuesday
With one of the most contested Democratic Primary election cycles in recent memory well underway, Super Tuesday has always been seen and used to narrow down the field of candidates.
Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Micheal Bloomberg, Elizabeth Warren, and Tulsi Gabbard were all still officially on the ballot yesterday. With 1,357 delegates up for grabs across 14 states and American Samoa.
According to an analysis of Google search on Google Trends, Bernie Sanders has been the most searched Democratic candidate not only on Super Tuesday but also during the 2020 election cycle.
However, this isn’t the first time Sanders has dominated Google search results. During the 2016 Democratic Primary election cycle, according to more analysis of Google search on Google Trends, Sanders overshadowed his opponent Hillary Clinton but went on to lose the nomination of the party.
Will things end differently for Sanders this time around? Only time will tell. One thing that is concerning for the Sanders campaign is that the recent consolidating endorsements of Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Beto O’rourke has allowed Biden to make up some serious ground. Who now as a 45 delegate lead on Sanders.
The delegate lead is continuously changing as this now two-person race gets more and more heated. Here is an updated look at the numbers.
Coronavirus Dominates Democratic Field
According to an analysis of Google search on Google Trends, the Coronavirus has completely dominated the Democratic field and rightfully so.
According to Vox, the Coronavirus originated in bats and then jumped to humans. With Chinese officials also reporting that the first cluster of cases had ties to a live animal market where both seafood and other wildlife were sold as food.
“All we know [is] its likely distant source was bats, but we don’t know who was between bats and people,” said Vincent Racaniello, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia.
CNN reports that there have been more than 3,200 people who have died globally and over 94,000 people have been infected. In the United States, there has been 159 cases and 11 deaths.
According to the CDC, the best thing to do is avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth; cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, and stay home when you are sick.
In recent days, Sanders and Biden have both condemned the president’s response to the virus.
Biden said on ABC’s “This Week” that his response as president would have been “fundamentally different,” highlighting how the administration has continued to cut funding to the CDC — as reported by The Hill.
“This has been outrageous the way they proceeded,” he said. “They should let the scientists speak.”
“How pathetic is it that in the midst of an international health care crisis, you’ve got a president running into South Carolina trying to steal some media attention away from Democrats,” Sanders said.
*Story originally published on March 5, 2020.
