Once an insurgent, Bernie Sanders now has front-runner challenges
-- No longer a fringe candidate or an outsider, Bernie Sanders will be under pressure to score decisive victories in early contests for the Democratic nomination or risk seeing his 2020 candidacy deflate.
“They lived through a two-person race and did really well,” in 2016, said Joe Trippi, a Democratic strategist who isn’t currently affiliated with any campaign. “Well guess what? You’re in a totally different animal now.”Sanders lost to Clinton in 2016 in Iowa, Nevada, South Carolina and California, while winning the New Hampshire primary next door to his home state. As the insurgent candidate, Sanders could absorb the losses and credibly fight on.
“As the spring unfolds, I think you’ll see clusters of events that speak both to policy issues and also to other important issues of the campaign like electability," Weaver said.The campaign’s first test will be in the Iowa caucuses, where in 2016 Sanders came away with only four fewer delegates than Clinton out of a total of 1,681. He called the loss a"virtual tie."
In Nevada and South Carolina, Sanders lacked the deep and long established relationships that Clinton had in 2016. Although Sanders lost Nevada by only five percentage points, he fell behind Clinton in South Carolina by nearly 50. Harris brought on Clinton’s 2016 South Carolina political director Jalisa Washington-Price to lead her campaign in the state, while Booker hired former aides of South Carolina Representative Jim Clyburn, a member of House leadership. Sanders is preparing to announce South Carolina and Nevada hires"soon," according to Weaver.The Sanders campaign has also worked to push back on the perception that he didn’t appeal to minority voters in 2016.
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