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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign event, Sunday in Boone, Iowa
FEARS are growing in the Democratic Party establishment that Bernie Sanders could become their presidential nominee, as party grandees started to round on the Vermont senator.
Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, a former senior aide to Barack Obama, led the charge today, claiming that the leftwinger’s support for free universal healthcare would not be popular in so-called swing states.
“You need a candidate with a message that can help us win swing voters in battleground states,” Mr Emanuel said. “The degree of difficulty dramatically increases under a Bernie Sanders candidacy. It just gets a lot harder.”
RAMZY BAROUD assesses the notable shift of US public opinion away from a carte blanche for Israel’s actions in the Middle East
ANDREW MURRAY looks back on the ignominious career of the former US vice-president, who died earlier this week
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century