Bernie Sanders could receive a big boost today from a powerful demographic dynamic, even as more party leaders consolidate to resist his candidacy. The groups that have most favored the senator from Vermont in the Democratic presidential race are much more widely distributed than the groups that have resisted him […] Read more »
Trump and Sanders lead competing populist movements, reshaping American politics
… Four years after Trump seized control of the Republican Party with a right-wing populist movement, a new populist crusade has risen on the left, fueled similarly by grievance and anxiety and powered by Sanders’s remarkable drive to dispatch Trump from the White House. Each is powered by a disdain […] Read more »
Solid Hispanic support for Sanders could carry him to victory in California
Victory in the South Carolina primary gave a new oxygen to Joe Biden’s campaign, but one of the obstacles he will encounter in California is the immense support that Bernie Sanders has garnered among Hispanic voters there. According to a new state poll by Univision News, Latino Community Foundation and […] Read more »
Frozen in Anxiety: How Democratic Leaders Struggled to Confront Bernie Sanders
Late last year a group of first-term House Democrats, anxious over the party’s fractious presidential race, convened a series of discussions intended to spur unity. … That effort was just one in a series of abandoned or ineffective plans to rally the moderate wing of the Democratic Party, and the […] Read more »
Bernie Sanders Overtakes Joe Biden Before Super Tuesday: IBD/TIPP Poll
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has taken a narrow lead over Joe Biden in a nationwide poll of the Democratic primary battle, the March IBD/TIPP Poll finds. Elizabeth Warren is running a strong third, ahead of Michael Bloomberg. All four candidates held slight edges over President Donald Trump in head-to-head 2020 […] Read more »
Is Bernie Sanders winning or losing?
A week ago, after CBS News and NBC News/Marist polls showed former Vice President Joe Biden’s lead in South Carolina shrinking to the mid-single digits, it appeared that Sen. Bernie Sanders was about to get another boost in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. … But after Saturday’s results […] Read more »