On Thursday night, Sanders conceded to his advisors pushing for a more aggressive campaign: The time has come to force his issues.
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images There’s long been a camp of Bernie Sanders supporters and advisers, both formal and informal, who have itched to see a more aggressive candidate on the trail, primarily when it comes to drawing direct contrasts with other candidates. Bernie on the attack, these people believe, is the strongest Bernie.
Most of the substance of the contrasts was unsurprising — the entire Medicare for All exchange, for one, followed familiar patterns from previous debates, and indeed much of Sanders’s career — but as the health-care conversation progressed and his signature issue came under sustained fire, he grew heated, at one point waving down the moderators to make sure he could defend the policy from Biden’s attacks.
A big part of doing that is positioning himself as Biden’s biggest rival, not as simply one of the top three candidates. Sanders hasn’t felt pressure to make that case yet, but now he knows he has no choice but to solidify his own base of support, then try again to expand it.
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