Iowa Starting Line: SANDERS RETURNS TO IOWA IN NEW ROLE: FRONT-RUNNER

[Omaha Steve]

I got this in email.

OS



On March 10, 2019 By prynard

In many ways, it felt like Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign never ended.

At his stops in Iowa this week following his official 2020 launch, Sanders rallied the faithful in packed rooms to get on board with his second run for the White House. In speeches that clocked in at just over an hour’s length, all the old progressive issue mainstays of his last campaign made their appearances. So too did the enthusiastic chants and cheers of his motivated, diverse supporter base.

And as Sanders himself pointed out often in his speeches, the 2016 campaign was less a campaign than it was a movement, and that movement has seen rolling successes across the country.

“Those radical ideas that we talked about four years ago? Well, today, virtually all of those ideas are now supported by a majority of the American people,” Sanders said in Des Moines after ticking off a series of his proposals deemed “too radical” by many in 2016. “They are ideas that Democratic candidates for school board to president are now campaigning on.”

FULL story: https://iowastartingline.com/2019/03/10/bernie-sanders-returns-to-iowa-in-new-role-front-runner/

[brooklynite]

2. No place to go but down?

[Mr Tibbs]

3. Given he started the last primary season with 3% name recogniton

I would say he has a bit of a boost this time.