Will Sanders drop out or not? Welcome to the Maclean's Politics Insider: America 2020, launched for readers who crave U.S. political news during primary season. If you want to receive this new newsletter, take no action, it will arrive in your inbox every weekday at noon. If you'd rather not receive it, please unsubscribe here. Sanders suspends Facebook ads: As Joe Biden swept the primaries on Tuesday night, the big question in the Democratic race is whether Bernie Sanders will stay in or drop out, given the difficulties holding elections during a global pandemic and his lack of a path to the nomination. In some ways, Sanders isn't acting like someone with an active campaign: on Wednesday, Axios noticed that Sanders has stopped running ads on Facebook. Both Pete Buttigieg and Michael Bloomberg cancelled their Facebook ad spending just before dropping out of the race, and Axios originally reported that Sanders was in fact dropping out — but the site had to issue an apology when it turned out that this wasn't true. However, the Sanders and Biden campaigns have reportedly been in touch more often, and the Biden campaign has adopted "an internal policy of no longer attacking Sanders," suggesting that they may be trying to find a way to ease him gently out of the race. Sanders and the "f**cking global crisis": While Senator Sanders isn't out of the race yet, he hasn't officially said he's staying in, either. Faiz Shakir, Sanders' campaign manager, said that the candidate will merely be "having conversations with his supporters to assess his campaign" before the next primaries, which are scheduled to take place in three weeks. In the current pandemic, no one even knows if the primaries will actually be held as scheduled, and Sanders might not have time to think much about them, since he's one of many Senators working on upcoming coronavirus legislation. When CNN reporter Manu Raju asked the Senator when he would make his decision, Sanders replied: I'm dealing with a f**king global crisis. Right now I'm trying to do my best to make sure that we don't have an economic meltdown and that people don't die. Is that enough for you to keep me busy for today? Trump's last opponent drops out: Throughout the Donald J. Trump presidency, there was speculation that he might get a serious primary challenge, the way Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush did. In the end, though, it turned out that Trump's popularity in the Republican party was too great, and no challenger got any traction. After Tuesday's primaries, William Weld, the former Governor of Massachusetts and the last non-Trump Republican in the race, finally called it quits. Weld, who announced his challenge in February, had never expected to win, but just to provide the option a "protest vote" against the president for moderate Republicans and libertarians. Conservative Democrat defeated: While Biden was winning Illinois, a Democratic Congressman was losing a historic primary of his own. Dan Lipinski, who represents the Third Congressional District in Illinois, was one of the last federally-elected Democrats who opposes abortion, and one of the most conservative Democrats in the House. He was defeated in the primary by Marie Newman, who described herself as "a real Democrat" when it comes to abortion as well as economic issues. There are still a few conservatives left in the party's Congressional delegation, including Rep. Henry Cuellar , a Texas Democrat who successfully fended off a similar challenge earlier this year. — Jaime Weinman | 
