BERNIE SANDERS LEADS THE DEMOCRATIC 2020 PACK, NOW HE'S COMING FOR THE FOX NEWS CROWD [View all]

[Uncle Joe]

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Sanders also knows that he offers an alternative to Americans who voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 because they felt forgotten disregarded by those who make policy in Washington. Trump knows this too, which is why he’s worked so hard to vilify socialism ahead of 2020. But by drawing attention to socialism, the president is unwittingly also drawing attention to his potential presidential contender.

In an attempt to appeal to some on the right who might be averse to yet curious about socialism, Sanders agreed to participate in a town hall on Fox News on April 15. The decision riled a number of his Democratic colleagues who view the channel as a right-wing propaganda outlet.

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Questions about Sanders’s age continue, and if Joe Biden does enter the race, Sanders will soon face new competition. But right now, he’s banking on being the only candidate who can meet and beat Trump on the president’s own terms.

“In precisely the way Donald Trump has emboldened the right, Bernie will be a huge movement builder for the left if he is president,” said Meagan Day, a prominent socialist activist and writer, at a Democratic Socialists of America conference last month. “Trump understands the propaganda value of his actions very well. I would contend that not only does Bernie understand it too, but he actually has much better intuition and instincts about this than Donald Trump does.”


https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-2020-fox-news-1389215