The Labour Party’s resounding defeat in the U.K. provided fresh ammunition for the arguments of moderates who contend that if the party backs Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, they’ll lose the Rust Belt and perhaps even elsewhere.
that the “Bernie team says #VoteLabour” with a picture attached of campaign staff. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a top congressional ally who has campaigned with Sanders in Iowa, also tweeted in support of Labour. Two 2016 aides to Sanders, Becky Bond and Zack Malitz, had traveled to London earlier this year to help the pro-Corbyn group Momentum as well.
On Thursday, former Vice President Joe Biden said Boris Johnson's win showed the consequence of moving too far from the center: “Look what happens when the Labour Party moves so, so far to the left. It comes up with ideas that are not able to be contained within a rational basis quickly.” Though many progressives in the U.S. are now distancing themselves from the Labour Party, some privately saw a potential Corbyn win as something that could provide momentum for the left-wing 2020 candidates and show that a socialist victory was possible. Likewise, some moderate Democrats quietly believed before the election that a Labour loss would send a signal that the Democratic Party would suffer by nominating a progressive.
It was an implicit shot at Sanders, who has long called for a “political revolution,” and Warren, who has attacked Bloomberg vigorously and is calling for “big, structural change.”
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