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46% to 37%
Margin by which 18- to 35-year-olds prefer Sen. Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, according to a new Rock the Vote/USA Today poll. At 74, Sanders is the oldest candidate running for president.
83%
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) approval rating among his own constituents, the highest of any United States senator, a new Morning Consult survey finds.
20,000M
Crowd that Sen. Bernie Sanders drew “in Massachusetts on Saturday as he sought to attract donors and build a political infrastructure that will boost his campaign a month after the first two states vote,” the Boston Globe reports. “It was the third-largest rally Sanders has held this year, smaller only than events in Portland, Ore., and Los Angeles in August. To put it in context, the number of people who showed up to see Sanders at the convention center was nearly three times the population of Montpelier, the capital of the US senator’s home state of Vermont.”
25%
Vice President Joe Biden’s share in the latest Bloomberg poll, which finds hime edging Sen. Bernie Sanders, with 24%, in the race for second to Hillary Clinton, who continues to lead the Democratic presidential field with just 33%.
$1.2 million
Amount of online donations the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders raised in 48 hours “after research surfaced from a super PAC backing Hillary Clinton that linked the Vermont senator to the ‘extreme’ views of Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party,” the Washington Post reported. “The burst of money Sanders received online was unprecedented, according to a statement Thursday by Erin Hill, executive director of ActBlue, an online fundraising service used by Sanders and scores of Democrats.”
$18 trillion
“Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose liberal call to action has propelled his long-shot presidential campaign, is proposing an array of new programs that would amount to the largest peacetime expansion of government in modern American history. … In all, he backs at least $18 trillion in new spending over a decade, according to a tally by the Wall Street Journal, a sum that alarms conservatives and gives even many Democrats pause. Mr. Sanders sees the money as going to essential government services at a time of increasing strain on the middle class.”
It’s like Pat Robertson going to a nudist colony — peculiar and not going to get the results that they hope for.
— Virginia state Sen. William Stanley (R), quoted by the Washington Post, on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ speech today at Liberty University.
41% to 40%
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) lead over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race, with Vice President Joe Biden at 12, according to a new Quinnipiac poll in Iowa. Said pollster Peter Brown: “Sen. Bernie Sanders has become the Eugene McCarthy of 2016. He is the candidate of the Democratic left, against his own party’s bosses and their prized presidential candidate, Secretary Hillary Clinton. Sanders has seized the momentum by offering a message more in line with disproportionately liberal primary and caucus voters.”
People like Bernie are always attractive, as I was. They speak truth to power. The problem with candidates like that — and like me — is that as you get closer to election time, you’re more careful about how your vote’s going to be used. You’re going to tend to want to see somebody who you think looks presidential as the nominee of your party. That’s one of the things that sank me.
— Howard Dean, in an interview with the Washington Post.
45% to 40%
Donald Trump’s (R) lead over Hillary Clinton (D) nationally, according to a new Survey USA poll. Trump also leads Bernie Sanders, 44% to 40%, and tops Joe Biden, 44% to 42%.
