Bernie Has Been Vetted, and He Can Beat Trump
Bernie Sanders is a democratic socialist, vetted after four years in the national limelight, who polls repeatedly show can demolish Trump. The media should lay to rest the dominant narrative that the United States is a center-right nation with a public committed to capitalism.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks to supporters at a rally at Civic Center Park on September 9, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. (Michael Ciaglo / Getty Images)
Bernie Sanders continues to dominate Donald Trump in head-to-head polling: he has now defeated Trump in twenty consecutive polls tracked by RealClearPolitics. And, in fact, except for a single outlier — a Rasmussen poll the firm describes as “a virtual tie” — Sanders has defeated Trump in every head-to-head tracked by the aggregator this cycle.
This isn’t a new trend; Sanders has been annihilating Trump in head-to-heads since 2015. But during the last election, pundits developed a standard explanation for why this wasn’t a big deal: Sanders, we were told, “hadn’t been vetted.”
Sorry, but this article is available to active subscribers only. Please log in or become a subscriber.