It says that a full-court press by the media and establishment on your behalf can outweigh your own personal shortcomings.
47% of South Carolina voters said that Rep. Clyburn's endorsement was either a "very important factor" or the "most important factor" in their vote. Nearly HALF the fukking voters said that, and Biden barely even got half the vote. If Clyburn endorses Bernie instead of Biden, that alone would probably have made South Carolina a virtual draw and made Super Tuesday look 100% different, and that's without even factoring in the media pressure and the Buttigieg/Klobuchar (but not Warren) withdrawals and endorsements and the DNC literally going to other candidate's donors and pressuring them to close the purse-strings and get behind Biden.
Bernie was not vetted in 2016. For the most part the MSM gave him a pass, b/c they didn't view him as a legitimate threat. Even now, the most watched news channel, Fox News, has been tame in their coverage of him in order to prop him up for Trump. Hell, Republicans are telling their constituents to go out and vote for him! Meanwhile, did we forget about what Hillary went through in '16?
Benghazi Hearings were in Fall of '15.
Russians hacked her campaign manager in the Spring of '16.
The Russian IRA started their campaign against Hillary in the Spring of '16.
This on top of the 20 year war the Right had waged against her killing her favorables. This is what a full court press looks like, not a week of negative media coverage. Despite all of this, Hillary still beat Bernie by nearly 4M votes. C'mon man at what point are you guys going to take a critical assessment of your candidate. Dude literally promised a revolution of young voters every single day for the last two years, that has not come to fruition. Who is to blame for that...the legacy media that young people don't even watch??