OK, well, maybe not the DNC in-and-of-itself, but I think you get the drift.
I agree with some of these sentiments from early March:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...-establishment-bid-turn-back-sanders-n1147416
WASHINGTON — The Democratic empire is quickly aligning its forces to strike back at Bernie Sanders......
....."It reflects the urgency of what we’re going into on Super Tuesday," said Adrienne Elrod, a Democratic strategist who worked on Hillary Clinton's bids for the presidency. "That's a big show of force that the left-of-center wing of the Democratic Party is consolidating around Joe because they understand what’s at stake, they understand the urgency, and they don’t want this to be handed to Bernie Sanders on Super Tuesday.".....
...."The corporate establishment is coming together, the political establishment is coming together, and they will do everything," Sanders told reporters in Salt Lake City on Monday. "They are really getting nervous that working people are standing up."....
........Before Biden's resurgence in South Carolina, party leaders had long worried that fractured support among Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Warren and billionaire Mike Bloomberg would magnify Sanders' edge on Super Tuesday and put him on a path to winning the nomination outright or making a strong case that he should win with a plurality.....
Call it a conspiracy of you'd like, and I very well could be wrong, but I think the Democratic powers-that-be somehow had their thumbs on the scales as it concerned the simultaneous departures of Klobuchar and Buttigieg...and ensuing (and swift) backing of Biden. I all seemed just a little weird to me. Ahh...well.
But the departures of Klobuchar and Buttigieg — even after early voting in many states clearly has banked many votes for the two of them — mean Sanders' chances of emerging Tuesday with an eye-popping delegate count are probably reduced.
To me (and many, many others), the obvious reason is that the DNC doesn't think Bernie, while becoming increasing popular among the ranks, can beat Trump. In 2016...nor in 2020. (Sorry about the Trump reference. I stand corrected.)