The memories of Super Tuesday are a distant past, as are the memories of the five additional contestants who dropped out this week in the 2020 Democratic presidential Hunger Games. In the lead-up to Super Tuesday, Pete Buttigieg, the former South Bend, Indiana mayor, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and billionaire Tom Steyer bowed out of the competition. With a dismal performance and more than a half billion dollars spent, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg also dropped out. His race lasted but a few months and cost him more than $18 million per delegate. And finally, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) cast her last arrow, determining that the voters did not think she would be the first female president. They all had their flickers, but their flames have been snuffed.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered his state of the state address on Wednesday, Feb. 19, just in time to make it fresh in the minds of voters as they head to the polls on Tuesday, March 3 to choose their preference for the Democratic presidential nominee. California, for all of its beaches, vineyards, and major cities, really knows how to demonstrate what not to do to be a successful state. But that was not stopping Gov. Newsom from touting California as the best in the nation. The thing is, he, like all of the other prominent, long-standing Democrat politicians in California forget how crappy a situation their state has been put in because of the policies they enacted. They have dropped deuce after deuce, but act as if everything is squeaky clean, at least on their ends.

Seven warm bodies took the stage Wednesday night for the 10th debate of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary season. The candidates presented their usual pleas, but added a few more jabs at one another at the debate held in Charleston, S.C. As the debate season winds down and with Super Tuesday right around the corner, contestants took their final shots at getting the much-needed attention in order to persuade voters to pick them. The audience, and more importantly the voters will decide who came out victorious and who remained at the bottom of the barrel.