Despite some panic in the party, a key piece of the Democratic establishment thinks Bernie Sanders can beat Donald Trump
out. But Bernie Sanders’ colleagues have a more placid take on the rise of democratic socialist: Bernie can beat Donald Trump.
“He's running even with [Trump] in the national polls and… his win in Nevada shows that he won over all the demographics. So I think he's looking really strong,” agreed Democratic Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico, a state that Trump wants to flip in November. “It looks like he’s the leader right now and he’s doing very well.”
"I hope I'm wrong, but Bernie seems to have declared war on the Democratic Party,” said Rep. Josh Gottheimer , a centrist Democrat who has endorsed former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg. “To win in November, we need someone who will bring us together under a big tent and protect the Democratic majority in the House — not burn the house down.”
In interviews with more than a dozen Democratic senators on Monday, the majority said Sanders was not the electoral anchor that critics are making him out to be. Sen. Maria Cantwell said were he to emerge from the long primary as the nominee, Sanders “steals” some voters from Trump’s base: “He is getting a lot of people riled up and he does take some of [Trump’s] votes.
“Those who live in my state suffered enormously under the regime, the more than a million people who fled. I’m sure they all think that the literacy program was worth all of that,” Menendez said.Menendez has previously criticized Sanders for not denouncing Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro. And many of Sanders’ positions have been well-litigated since his run against Clinton in 2016, on issues from guns to immigration to his support for President Barack Obama.
“Republicans have been using labels like that ... for the last 50 years. That’s what they said Medicare was,” said Sen. Martin Heinrich . “I don’t think it’s substantively any different from the way they’ve campaigned forever.”
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