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Showing Original Post only (View all)NYT-For Bernie Sanders, Holding Onto Support May Be Hard in a 2020 Bid [View all]
The NYT has a great article on some of the difficulties that sanders is facing if he runs in 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/us/politics/bernie-sanders-president-2020.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
WASHINGTON Some of his top congressional supporters wont commit to backing him if he runs for president again and two may join the 2020 race themselves. A handful of former aides might work for other candidates. And Bernie Sanderss initial standing in Iowa polls is well below the 49.6 percent he captured in nearly defeating Hillary Clinton there in 2016.
Mr. Sanders may have been the runner-up in the last Democratic primary, but instead of expanding his nucleus of support, in the fashion of most repeat candidates, the Vermont senator is struggling to retain even what he garnered two years ago, when he was far less of a political star than he is today.
Its not a given that Im going to support Bernie just because I did before, said Lucy Flores, a former Nevada assemblywoman. There are going to be plenty of people to look at and to listen to. Im currently open at this point, and I think the majority of people are.
As Mr. Sanders considers a second bid for the White House, he and his advisers are grappling with the political reality that he would face a far different electoral landscape than in 2016. Rather than being the only progressive opponent to an establishment-backed front-runner, the Vermont Independent would join what may be the most crowded, fractured and uncertain Democratic primary in the last quarter-century.
Mr. Sanders may have been the runner-up in the last Democratic primary, but instead of expanding his nucleus of support, in the fashion of most repeat candidates, the Vermont senator is struggling to retain even what he garnered two years ago, when he was far less of a political star than he is today.
Its not a given that Im going to support Bernie just because I did before, said Lucy Flores, a former Nevada assemblywoman. There are going to be plenty of people to look at and to listen to. Im currently open at this point, and I think the majority of people are.
As Mr. Sanders considers a second bid for the White House, he and his advisers are grappling with the political reality that he would face a far different electoral landscape than in 2016. Rather than being the only progressive opponent to an establishment-backed front-runner, the Vermont Independent would join what may be the most crowded, fractured and uncertain Democratic primary in the last quarter-century.
The NYT looks at a number of issues that show that sanders may have a very hard time duplicating his prior success
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NYT-For Bernie Sanders, Holding Onto Support May Be Hard in a 2020 Bid [View all]
Gothmog
Dec 2018
OP
I totally share your feelings about this!! The division is toxic and it always weakens the party.
NurseJackie
Dec 2018
#73
I think I understand the cynical motivation of those who attack the Democratic party...
NurseJackie
Dec 2018
#91
I think a lot of us here are done being enchanted with him, Adrahil. He's always been a gadfly...
Hekate
Dec 2018
#50
A group running ads is going to scare candidates from supporting a progressive agenda?
betsuni
Dec 2018
#30
"Last time we ran, we made the financial elite pay a price for their attacks on our progressive
WhiskeyGrinder
Dec 2018
#59
Yes. Alas Pope Francis had no idea he was going to be there until he "bumped into him".....
George II
Dec 2018
#17
I'm not sure that "expanding a nucleus of support" is synonymous with "securing the nomination". N/T
lapucelle
Dec 2018
#33
that was the general election. the primary is made up of mostly black voters in the south
JI7
Dec 2018
#67
I fail to see what is productive about bashing Bernie around, but I do think that
Magoo48
Dec 2018
#57
Campaigning is not "bashing Bernie around". Speaking of which, did you see the email he sent...
George II
Dec 2018
#64