With Warren rising and Biden mostly cruising, Sanders is looking to shake things up
2017 win in Alabama. “But that’s not how this is going to play out. It isn’t going to be him getting Biden one-on-one. There are too many other good candidates. He can contrast himself with Biden, but Biden’s voters aren’t going to move to Bernie. He has the money and the base to last the whole way, so he has to take a real long view of this and hope Warren falters.”
Focusing his fire on Biden might also help change the conversation from the growing, unhelpful Sanders vs. Warren narrative. Shakir is quick and clear in his complimenting of the Massachusetts senator, even though she has been siphoning poll support from Sanders. “Any success they’re having is a credit to the hard work that she and the campaign are putting into it,” he says. “They started off in a little bit of a difficult place and they put in some work and they started to move up.
Maintaining that diplomacy, though, is already proving difficult. A tweet from the official Sanders campaign account on Wednesday afternoon seemed to take an oblique shot at Warren as a new favorite of “the corporate wing of the Democratic Party,” unlike the real revolutionary that the Establishment fears, Bernie. Offline, however, Sanders allies characterize Warren as a technocrat, and see her current rise as the superficial product of a wave of glowing mainstream press attention.
The intramural skirmishing probably won’t dent the proven, fierce loyalty of Sanders’s backers. And if the field stays fractured, reliable support in the high teens could be enough to win a formidable number of delegates. Shakir also points to the calendar, and to the fact that most Americans, shockingly enough, are not political junkies. “I believe strongly that the vast majority of people have not yet checked into this primary,” he says. “Maybe they'll start by watching the debates.
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