.MTPFirstRead: Sen. Sanders has upped his game, but does it matter?
WASHINGTON — Both can be true: Bernie Sanders is running a better campaign than he did four years ago, and he’s in worse shape to win the Democratic nomination than in 2016.
And today he delivers a speech on why democratic socialism is the only way to defeat to oligarchy and authoritarianism . And maybe most important of all, the Democratic memories about 2016 – the fights with the DNC, the chaos at the Philly convention, the dispute over superdelegates — make it harder to win over a party that wants to move on from that last presidential campaign.Before departing for the Hawkeye State, Trump called Biden a “loser” and someone who never won “more than 1 percent except Obama took him off the trash heap.”More: “Now, I have to tell you, he’s a different guy.
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