Bernie Sanders' campaign is comfortable portraying itself as under attack. And the candidate's advisers think fighting back is how they win in 2020.
, prompting Sanders to accuse the think tank of sponsoring a “smear” campaign against progressives.) On Twitter, Tim Tagaris, the strategist leading Sanders’s digital fundraising program, asked loyal supporters to pitch in. “You know what to do,” he said. And on cable news, former Clinton and Sanders operatives returned to make the rounds. “Listen, when we’re attacked, we are gonna fight back,” said Ari Rabin-Havt, who serves as the Sanders campaign’s chief of staff.
"Sanders' brand is fighting the establishment, it's who he is, it's core to his appeal. But the landscape is different this time," said John Neffinger, a longtime progressive operative."Voters have more choices, which argues for leaning in to that strength, but they also want someone who can unite the party in the end."
“Last time you had to get 50+1 to win, and we started at zero,” said Ben Tulchin, the campaign’s pollster, who recently conductedshowing Sanders leading Trump across three key Midwest states, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. “Now we need basically about a third to win. And others have a lot farther to go than us to get to that third.”
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