The myth of the Bernie Bro: Bernie Sanders' supporters are more diverse than prevailing narrative

[qazplm135]

8. he appealed to a wide audience in 2016 too

did he not?

But at the end of the day, he couldn't earn the votes of AAs and POC versus a woman who used the word superpredator to describe AAs and whose husband tried some borderline racist stuff in 2008 against Obama.

How's he going to do that against Harris? Or Booker? Heck, or even Beto or Biden?

The only path Sanders has, and it is a possible path for sure, is that his vocal base comes out, and everyone else splits the remaining pie so evenly that he wins a plurality. It's tough to do because we give out our votes proportionally vice winner take all, so I'm skeptical he does it.

I also suspect that even if he ends up with the largest plurality, someone else will be close enough to him to make it a choice between say Sanders or Harris, or Sanders and Beto, or even Sanders and Biden at the convention.

And it is at this point that Sanders will wish he was less rebel, more uniter.

But ultimately, I think his high point will be Iowa and NH. He will lose SC and Cali and most of the Super Tuesday states.
He will have some strength for sure in the midwest, but he will be competing against other candidates like Warren and Klobachur who will suck some strength from those areas (as will Biden).