When Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack in October, what upset his long-time supporter Craig Althof the most was the way it was covered by the media. In the opinion of 65-year-old Althof, who had a similar procedure to Sanders to prop open an artery, journalists
DES MOINES, Iowa - When Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack in October, what upset his long-time supporter Craig Althof the most was the way it was covered by the media.
Four months later, the progressive firebrand's turnaround -- a virtual tie for first place with Pete Buttigieg in last week's Iowa caucuses and another strong showing likely in New Hampshire on Tuesday - is at least partly thanks to the passion of supporters like Althof, who says the way the U.S. Senator was written off reminds him of the 2016 nominating race - which Sanders ultimately lost to Hillary Clinton - all over again.
Sipping a beer at Sanders' post-caucus party in Des Moines last week, Michael Tunney, 34, said he traveled from Los Angeles to knock doors for Sanders, and was planning to do the same in Nevada ahead of the caucuses there. These are all strong signs Sanders may be building a progressive version of the populist wave that swept Trump into office in 2016, observers say.Sanders' fiercest supporters can be unwilling to countenance criticism of their candidate and seem ready to back him almost no matter what he does.
"We are their worst nightmare," he said in a Sioux City rally on Jan. 26, referring to the party hierarchy as well as Trump and business interests that he said were"nervous" at the idea of him in the White House.That unapologetic stance may have helped him with many liberals who had been weighing him versus fellow liberal U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who was building momentum with a similar policy platform before Sanders' heart attack.
Sanders won 26.1% of state-delegate equivalents in Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses, just behind Buttigieg's 26.2% but well ahead of Warren, who finished third with 18%, and former vice president Joe Biden, who had 15.8%.
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