User:Czar/drafts/Bernie campaign, 2020

Background

 * Past campaign
 * Trump
 * Expectations

Platform

 * https://www.politico.com/2020-election/candidates-views-on-the-issues/bernie-sanders/
 * https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-medicare-all-would-likely-increase-wages-create-jobs-new-economic-analysis-shows-1490800

Strategy
The Sanders campaign invested early in the delegate-rich California Super Tuesday primary, for which staffers were door-knocking months in advance. Sanders had broad support in the state and led polls of young voters, progressives, and Latinos. He was among the first candidates to run television advertisements and had the largest ground operation, with 20 offices open by February. Their emphasis on California, whose primary was moved from June to March, reflected the organization's insight that the state would play a larger role in the delegate race.

Opponents of Sanders mainly attacked his support for single-payer Medicare for All, but in places like Nevada, a majority of Democratic voters supported the measure.


 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democrats-turnout.html
 * https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/bernie-sanders-super-tuesday-118249
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/us/politics/bernie-sanders-voters.html

Announcement

 * Deciding to run
 * Announcement

Campaign trail
Sanders led the Democratic primaries in fundraising with $100 million by the turn of the decade. Sanders, however, trailed in congressional and gubernatorial endorsements. Sanders supporters in early primary states showed signs of steadfastness and enthusiasm.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's endorsement of Sanders was 2019's most significant, precipitating both Warren's decline from frontrunner status and Sanders's climb. It was an unexpected revival after Sanders' heart attack.

Sanders gained momentum through January and his polls challenged Biden's frontrunner status by late January 2020, after consolidating his 2016 base and Warren's drop in the polls. Sanders also led the primary in labor endorsements.

The Sanders campaign had anticipated winning the Iowa primary, but delays in results reporting drained the campaign's momentum. Reporting errors in the close primary further entrenched Sanders supporters mistrust towards the Democratic National Committee.

"de facto frontrunner"

The Nevada caucuses dismantled stereotypes about Sanders' appeal and established him as the frontrunner. While said to have a ceiling of support, lacking appeal outside of his core base of "crazy college kids", Sanders won the non-white vote and every age category below 65. He performed well with moderates and won every issue besides foreign policy. Sanders ultimately won Nevada's primary with a strong base of young, Latino, and liberal voters. Unlike the prior contests, Nevada represented states with significant non-white populations, and Sanders won the largest share of those voters. In Nevada, he sustained attacks from the powerful Culinary Union, who opposed his health care policy, but Sanders ultimately performed better with voters from unionized households than his competitors. Politico wrote that the race had become "Sanders' to lose", having the most non-self-funding, the best organization, and the widest coalition.

As Sanders rose, Democratic Party megadonors did not coalesce into a movement to stop him because they did not want to risk hurting their increasingly likely nominee and did not want to stoke the ire of his base. Following intelligence reports that Russia intends to aid the Sanders and Trump campaigns, Sanders condemned the interference attempt.


 * https://www.vox.com/2020/2/11/21131657/elizabeth-warren-new-hampshire-trouble
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/opinion/bernie-sanders-election.html
 * https://www.npr.org/2020/02/13/804491974/iowa-caucus-meltdown-proved-transparency-is-essential-election-watchers-say
 * https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/13/sanders-campaign-criticizes-panic-from-wall-street-elite-after-new-hampshire-win
 * https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/17/politics/bernie-sanders-democratic-primary-2020-election/index.html
 * https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/17/bernie-sanders-nevada-breaks-pack-115450
 * https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-we-got-a-flurry-of-new-national-polls-sanders-led-them-all/
 * https://www.axios.com/bernie-sanders-mike-bloomberg-delegate-race-bee5b692-a0ca-449a-a714-4c212ad15010.html
 * https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/19/bernie-sanders-big-nevada-test-2020-115906
 * https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/21/democrat-megadonors-bernie-sanders-116556
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/22/us/politics/bernie-sanders.html
 * https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/22/bernie-nevada-volunteer-army-116697
 * https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/why-bernie-is-not-george-mcgovern-and-2020-isnt-1972.html
 * also russian interference coverage?
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/22/us/politics/how-sanders-won-nevada.html
 * https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/22/bernie-sanders-nevada-2020-election-116762
 * https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/23/politics/nevada-caucuses-takeaways/index.html
 * https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/24/florida-dems-uproar-sanders-cuba-comments-117213


 * https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/sanderss-primary-losses-michigan-and-mississippi/607795/?utm_source=feed]
 * https://thehill.com/homenews/house/487085-ocasio-cortez-says-sanders-should-continue-primary-fight
 * https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/biden-wave-continues-mini-tuesday-key-points-forward/story?id=69521124
 * note warren too https://www.vox.com/2020/3/11/21174736/bernie-sanders-black-vote-joe-biden-michigan-primary


 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democratic-party.html
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/bernie-sanders-voters.html
 * https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/07/why-bernie-sanders-economic-message-isnt-enough-to-win-over-black-voters-118197
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/health/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all.html
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democrats-2020.html
 * https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/13/bernie-sanders-campaign-coronavirus-128767
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/us/politics/bernie-sanders-comedy.html
 * https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/were-about-to-walk-off-a-cliff-the-pro-bernie-media-makes-its-last-stand-against-biden
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democrats-2020.html
 * https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/democrats-sound-alarm-about-joe-biden-s-young-voter-problem-n1163296
 * http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bernie-sanders-2020-election-democratic-primary-joe-biden-delegates-trump-a9416656.html
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/politics/bernie-sanders-coronavirus.html
 * https://www.npr.org/2020/03/29/822749003/facing-likely-defeat-bernie-sanders-campaign-found-a-new-cause?ft=nprml&f=1001
 * https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/05/bernie-sanders-campaign-assessing-coronavirus
 * https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/05/bernie-sanders-path-to-victory-165161

Suspended campaign

 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/politics/bernie-sanders-drops-out.html
 * https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-bernie-sanders-lost/
 * https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/27/sanders-delegates-tougher-after-new-york-cancels-primary-212067
 * https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/28/andrew-yang-lawsuit-new-york-primary-217349
 * https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-campaign-reaches-deal-bernie-sanders-retain-hundreds/story?id=70428518

Fundraising
Despite his outsized criticism of big tech companies, their employees sent him more money than other primary candidates.

Media coverage

 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/business/media/bernie-sanders-media.html

Debate performance
Despite national reservations towards his left politics, Vox Matthew Yglesias described Sanders as an effective politician and debater with a consistent economic message and ability to navigate difficult arguments.

Supporters
Sanders critics cited online harassment and bullying from his supporters as a cause for concern.

Internet memes generated as a result of the campaign included "I am once again asking for your financial support", in which users modified this caption from a video clip of Sanders outside in winter. In another image macro, users modified the text in a photograph of Sanders writing on an easel.


 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/us/politics/young-voters-biden-sanders.html
 * https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/life-after-bernie-young-left-121534
 * https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/15/bernie-sanders-base-in-disarray-259514

Democratic Party

 * https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/15/texas-dems-sweat-bernie-sanders-ticket-110524