What Went Down On Super Tuesday

We’ve talked a lot on this site about Sanders and the way he handles his front-runner status: He is not a person who’s welcoming new voters into his tent necessarily. You’re certainly seeing that in this speech; he’s attacking Biden pretty scathingly. Which makes sense! That’s his main rival. But it’s not a unity tone. Such is 2020!

Sanders is an amazingly consistent messenger in his speeches, and I feel like his approach to messaging is a lot more like what you typically see from Republicans than from Democrats (obviously with very different content). Clear moral messaging. It’s less obvious whether this is a successful strategy for winning a Democratic nomination — we don’t know right now. But I also wonder how the messaging about the political establishment would play out in the general election against Trump, who also makes those claims.

Sanders talking right now about his political movement, emphasizing working-class and young voters, saying his nomination would turn these voters out in November.