Throughout the past year, Democratic presidential candidates campaigned to be the candidate to go up against Donald Trump in this year’s election. Bernie Sanders was a near lock to secure one of the top spots and all of the other candidates seemed to be fighting over who would be his main competitor. Candidates such as Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, and Pete Buttigieg were facing a prisoner’s dilemma. If each of these candidates pursued their individual goal of becoming the Democratic candidate, they would actually be helping Bernie Sanders. They would split up the votes among them and leave Bernie Sanders with a clearer path to securing the candidacy. The path to a Democratic candidate eventually being elected President of the United State in the 2020 election began by solving this prisoner’s dilemma.
Politics can be self-serving since each individual politician wants to help out his or her party, but usually not at the expense of their individual success. Politicians working in tandem as opposed to looking after themselves is more the exception than the norm. However, the Democratic party was able to have its candidates put aside their own interests and rally around one person who they thought had the best chance to secure the presidency, Joe Biden. Since all of the candidates eventually dropped out and focused on helping the party instead of themselves, the optimum outcome was achieved. If each acted selfishly, who knows how this election would have turned out or if Joe Biden would have even been the candidate at all? The Democratic Party was able to solve its prisoner’s dilemma. As a result, Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump this week to become the 46th President of the United States.
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