Far-left groups supporting Sanders intensify their efforts, even as Biden surges
The sprawling network of socialists, climate-change activists, millennial organizers and other progressive advocates, who raise money from millions of members and have knocked on many doors in support of Sanders , say they plan to cite theoutbreak and the uncertain economy to advance him as the only candidate who can enact broad economic and environmental change.
“It really looked like Bernie Sanders was winning, and now we’re back into something that’s a little more familiar: being the underdog,” said Alan Minsky, executive director of Progressive Democrats of America, one of the groups in the People Power for Bernie coalition. “The progressive left has not come this close to winning in America in my lifetime.”
“I’ve never experienced anything like it,” said Alan Kessler, a longtime Biden donor and fundraiser, of the onslaught of donor interest. Fundraising for Biden “was a really tough slog two weeks ago. It’s not tough now.” “We always understood that the establishment was never going to be okay with someone as radical and progressive as Senator Sanders to be the heir apparent to the Democratic nomination for president,” said Natalia Salgado, political director of Center for Popular Democracy, one of the groups. “Now more than ever, we’re really going to lean in to the differences between him and [former] vice president Biden.
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