South Carolina Isn’t Quite Ready For The Bernie Sanders Revolution
That doesn’t mean he’s changed his stump speech or veered from his call for a political revolution, which might cost him on Saturday.
By John Daniel Davidson
February 28, 2020
SPARTANBURG, South Carolina — You go to a Bernie Sanders rally and expect to find the most fervent supporters of any Democratic candidate by far. I mean devotees—“Bernersâ€â€”so committed they stage protests outside public officials’ homes in the middle of the night shouting warnings through bullhorns like they did last week in Nevada.
But not in upstate South Carolina. At a rally in Spartanburg on the campus of Wofford College Thursday night, a surprising number of attendees weren’t yet sure who they’d vote for in Saturday’s primary election.
There was the mixed-race couple and their six-year-old daughter who came to check out Bernie but were leaning toward either Joe Biden or Pete Buttigieg. There was the black college girl who came for extra credit and wasn’t sure who she’d vote for but liked Bernie because he promised to cancel her student debt.
There was the father and son who drove down from Asheville, North Carolina, who couldn’t quite decide between Sanders and Biden (they have until Tuesday, when North Carolina holds its primary). There was the young twentysomething who liked Sanders, she guessed, but wasn’t planning to vote in the primary and was only there because her Sanders-supporting boyfriend wanted to come.
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