Imagining an Open Field But there is an even more interesting possibility: Bernie’s ticker isn’t up to the task of campaigning (let’s say he has another heart attack, or “cardiac episode” on Tuesday night, right in front of a TV audience of millions), and Biden finally craters, undone by the ever-growing scandals involving his influence peddling and the Biden crime family profiteering from Biden’s official duties. So imagine this for a second: Bernie’s campaign bites the dust, Biden’s campaign bites the dust . . . and . . . The field is wide open! Everything is scrambled! Hillary enters the race as the “moderate” candidate who would have won in 2016, were it not for the New York Times, the Macedonian hackers, the Russians, the Albanians, James Comey, white women, black men . . . Well, you get the picture. Mike Bloomberg enters the race as the “other moderate” candidate, but without Hillary Clinton’s baggage. At age 77, Bloomberg is a spring chicken compared to 78-year-old Sanders. Howard Schultz re-enters the race as a moderate candidate, thinking, bizarrely, that there is a big market out there for a wooden-talking, non-socialist coffee billionaire aspiring to be president. Every Democrat who is already running suddenly feels the wind at his back. Fifty percent of the Democratic electorate is now up for grabs! Oh, baby! Now, are you seriously going to tell me that all those Democratic candidates feel differently from how you and I feel about Bernie? Are you seriously going to tell me they are all really hoping for Bernie’s speedy recovery, and wishing he was back on the campaign trail in full force? Naaahhh.