Analysis: Bernie Sanders sounds less 'radical' than he did in 2016 because Democrats have moved his way
Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally on Sunday afternoon in Concord, N.H. KEENE, N.H. — Has the backlash to President Trump radicalized the Democratic Party?first rallies in New Hampshire
“I am so disgusted and outraged. I’m just disgusted by all the lies and corruption. It’s mind-blowing every day what that man and his administration are doing.” Sanders bested Clinton by 22 points in the Granite State three years ago. Eleven months is an eternity in politics, especially during the fast-paced Trump era. A lot can — and will — change between now and next February. The 77-year-old benefits from high name recognition, but he cannot count on supporters staying loyal as fresher faces file through town.
Mark King, a Democratic state representative from Nashua who volunteered for Sanders in 2016, said he was pleasantly surprised by how many fresh faces he saw on Sunday who weren’t involved before. “When you live in an unprecedented moment, you need to have an unprecedented response,” Sanders said in Concord.-- Despite a heavy snowstorm on Sunday morning that created whiteout conditions on the roads for a few hours, Sanders drew an impressive crowd of 850 in Concord and another 1,000 people to a late-afternoon rally at a theater on Main Street here in Keene.“We won more votes from young people than Trump and Clinton combined,” Sanders said, referring to the 2016 primaries.
He led the crowds in a call and response, saying an idea and the crowd yelling, “Too radical!” Then he argued at length that none of these ideas should be considered radical, from creating a universal pre-K system to making public colleges tuition-free or creating a federal jobs guarantee. “It’s hard for me to imagine that anybody thinks it’s a radical idea to take good care of our children,” he said. “It’s not a radical idea.
At times, Sanders speaks as if these deep-pocketed interests collude in the shadows to suppress the proletariat. He believes a popular movement, bigger than any single campaign, is needed to neuter them. “They are the 1 percent,” he said. “We are the 99 percent.”Sanders then noted that he raised more than $10 million from small-dollar donors during his first week as a candidate, with an average donation of around $25, and added that 1.
They can’t vote in next February’s first-in-the-nation primary, but they’re eager to knock doors. It’s hard to guess how many people in the large crowds came from outside the state. -- A Des Moines Register-CNN poll of Iowa Democrats shows Joe Biden and Sanders atop the pack of 2020 candidates, with 27 percent and 25 percent respectively.“Seventy percent of respondents say they believe Biden’s political views are neither too liberal nor too conservative, but instead, are ‘about right’ — the highest percentage of any candidate tested. And 64 percent — including a majority in every demographic group — say they think Biden’s experience is an asset and he should enter the race.
“The next-closest challenger, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, trails Sanders by 16 percentage points. California Sen. Kamala Harris is in fourth place ... at 7 percent.”
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