Bernie Sanders' rise worries centrist Democrats in Congress
in November has some members of the Democratic Party worried that his liberal policies would cost them control of the House and a chance at grabbing the Senate from Republicans this fall.
Their worry is that Trump would tie every elected Democrat in the country to the most progressive policies of Sanders — an independent from Vermont — including the Green New Deal and Medicare for all. Several Democrats won their seats in 2018 in moderate Democratic or even slightly Republican parts of the country by touting less-progressive policies and a go-slow approach on issues such as healthcare and climate change.
“Any responsible Democratic [candidate] who speaks against that kind of road map to disaster is going to play very well in my district,” Rep. Madeleine Dean , who represents a historically Republican area outside of Philadelphia that is trending Democratic.But Democratic House members who won in 2018 in parts of the country where Trump is popular will probably have to convince at least some of their voters to split their ballot, supporting both them and the Republican president.
“When you have a large voter turnout, which is I think what our campaign is going to generate, it’s going to help everybody from the top of the ticket to the bottom of the ticket,” Sanders said in a brief interview last week as he left the campaign trail to cast a vote in the Senate. But the Democrats who are worried about Sanders’ rise argue that the base is already enthusiastic to cast their ballot this November because of one man who is not a Democrat at all.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , who has endorsed Sanders, said Bloomberg’s rise — fueled by his self-funded campaign ads blanketing airwaves around the country — “creates tough kinds of conflict-of-interest questions.”Worry about Sanders’ nomination merely comes with being the front-runner, Ocasio-Cortez said.
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