House members in tough re-election fights "don't want to spend every single day being consumed by having to answer for Sanders rhetoric or Sanders policy."
As results began coming in on Super Tuesday, some of the most vulnerable Democratic members of Congress breathed a sigh of relief: Joe Biden was surging.
For those lawmakers fighting to stay in office in districts that have elected Republicans for decades, a Democratic socialist at the top of the party's ticket felt like it would be an in-kind donation for their opponents. Many held back on endorsing any candidate. And prior to Biden's surge, Sanders' presidential bid had already emerged as a trigger point in those re-election battles, with some facing attacks of"socialism," despite their own moderate agendas.
Mollineau said that the distance between Sanders and Fletcher on policy hardly mattered. “If you’re explaining, you’re losing,” he said. Of the 42 at-risk Democrats in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Frontline program, none have endorsed Sanders. Nine endorsed Biden before voters went to the polls on Super Tuesday, but after his wins started pouring in, the endorsements started flowing: Biden picked up 11 more nods in less than two weeks.
“I was raised by a single mother in Dallas,” he said, adding that “people like my mother don’t have time to wait for supermajorities" in Congress, something moderates have argued would be necessary for there to be any hope of passing Sanders' agenda.
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