What Went Down In Michigan, Washington And Other Democratic Primaries

There’s a persistent gender gap in Biden’s and Sanders’s support, according to preliminary exit polls; in both Mississippi and Missouri, Biden is doing better among women while Sanders is doing better among men. (Michigan, where only day-of voters were sampled in the exit poll, exhibits the same trend.)

I was really struck by something that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said at Sanders’s rally in Ann Arbor on Sunday night: “In order for us to win, we have to grow. We must be inclusive, we must bring more people into this movement. We must shed the unnecessary clothes of cynicism and exclusion and we must turn towards an embracing posture where all people are welcome.” I wonder if the fundamental anti-establishment strain of Sanders’s candidacy made a lot of Democrats feel left out or antagonized. And I don’t know what Sanders could have done to change or fix that. It was kind of in the DNA of his campaign.

The youth vote has been and will remain a big problem for Biden’s campaign, is my bet. But maybe they don’t need the youth!?