Analysis: Biden’s entry into the Democratic race provides a jolt to the Sanders candidacy
By Dan Balz Dan Balz Chief correspondent covering national politics, the presidency and Congress Email Bio Follow May 11 at 11:28 AM There’s been no more consistent performer in the field of Democratic presidential candidates than Sen. Bernie Sanders . From the day he first announced his candidacy in the spring of 2015 straight on through to today, as he makes his second run for the White House, his message has remained constant, his style has varied not at all. Bernie is Bernie.
The senator from Vermont’s first-quarter performance — financially, politically and rhetorically — helped establish him as a power in the contest for the nomination. As the Democratic field took shape in those earlier months, he became the biggest name and impressed some of the skeptics who discounted him.
Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden shakes hands with a patron at King Taco Wednesday in Los Angeles. Biden has gotten a surprising bump in the polls — beyond what many Democratic strategists had predicted. Those who said Biden’s best day as a candidate would be the day before he announced have been proven wrong. Biden’s support nationally, and in some states, has risen.
Trump, who has long enjoyed taking shots at Sanders, has redirected his aim toward Biden repeatedly since he announced his candidacy. On Friday, Trump tried to play political handicapper, a foreshadowing perhaps of how he intends to serve as a running commentator of the Democratic race: In a tweet, he noted that it now looked like a two-person race for the nomination. “Everyone else is fading fast,” Trump wrote.
Sanders has a loyal base. The question is just how big or small that core support is. He is being squeezed from several directions.
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