Primaries Continue with Bernie v. Sanders
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We ran the numbers: There are 3389 news articles covering this topic. 45% (1514) are left leaning, 39%(1322) center, 16% (553) right leaning.
Over the last few days, the Democratic primaries have narrowed down to a competition between former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders.
A left-leaning article by The New York Times reports that Biden suddenly swept Virginia with 53 percent of the vote, which was largely due to the deep disgust with the Trump presidency among Democrats and moderate Republicans in Virginia. In Virginia, exit polls show that Biden dominated across gender, race, and educational lines, gaining support from men and women, white and black people, in addition to college graduates and non-graduates.
NPR published a centrist article reporting that even Sanders admits that he has not been as successful as he hoped in bringing young people in to vote. Meanwhile, Biden hasn’t been as well-organized in the realm of door-to-door grassroots campaigning that the Sanders campaign prides itself on.
A right-leaning article by New York Post highlights that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders claimed that he was trailing 2020 rival Joe Biden only because Biden was touting his connection to former President Barack Obama. At an MSNBC show, Sen. Sanders also told host Rachel Maddow he was not “unpopular” in the African American community.