The senior strategists for Sanders’ campaign made their case Wednesday morning.
Two of the top architects of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, strategist Tad Devine and campaign manager Jeff Weaver, addressed reporters Wednesday at the Bernie HQ in Burlington, Vermont.
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The topic was Super Tuesday, where Sanders won four of the 11 states up for grabs and came close in a fifth, Massachusetts. He was shellacked in the South, where black voters continued to turn out against for Hillary Clinton in huge numbers.
The Sanders campaign had largely avoided the Deep South after South Carolina and ahead of Super Tuesday, focusing instead on on states with whiter populations. They won four of their five targets, narrowly losing Massachusetts. But Clinton's states — including Massachusetts — provided a huge number of pledged delegates to add to her already sizable super delegate lead. It was a bad enough result for Sanders that Clinton's general election strategy is now a coverage topic.
"We understand that we have a long road ahead of us that we're going to have to take if we want to win the nomination of the Democratic Party," he said. "Super Tuesday, in my view, was perhaps the the single best day on the calendar for Hillary Clinton."
Devine said observers should look at "the demographics" of the states that come up next. Basically, that means there are more of the white, working-class voters the Sanders team thinks are best for him coming up. Sanders has also said that black voters outside the deep south are more likely to back him. The campaign looks to states like Michigan, Kansas, and Nebraska to rebuild the momentum they've lost after New Hampshire to give Sanders a boost ahead of the big delegate prizes in California and New York.
Michigan is next on the calendar. Public polling shows Sanders trailing badly there, but the Sanders aides said a message focused on Sanders long-running opposition to free trade deals will close the gap. There hasn't been much polling of California and New York yet.
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