Probably because he has the writing on the wall, Bernie Sanders has just made a big change to his ground game in the crucial Democratic primary state of New Hampshire.
For months now, and especially since Elizabeth Warren’s performance in the 3rd Democratic Debate, longtime supporters of Bernie have been warning him that he could lose the New Hampshire primary.
I guess he is now listening to those concerns. On Sunday, Sanders replaced the director of his presidential campaign operations in the New Hampshire. New Hampshire as you know, holds the first primary in the race for the White House
The campaign broke the news to more than 40 members of Sanders’ steering committee. Shannon Jackson, who made the announcement, will replace Joe Caiazzo as the state director. Jackson ran Sanders’ 2018 Senate re-election campaign and was a senior adviser on the independent senator’s 2016 White House bid as well as the current campaign.
“Thank God the campaign finally figured out they had to make serious changes in New Hampshire,” a longtime Sanders backer who attended the meeting told Fox News.
The move comes as some Sanders supporters in New Hampshire are looking over their shoulders at Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts – the other progressive standard-bearer in the record-setting field of Democratic presidential candidates.
Conflicting Polls
Recent polls in New Hampshire have been inconsistent. A recent live telephone operator survey from the Boston Herald and Franklin Pierce University indicated Sanders at 29 percent, overall front-runner and former Vice President Joe Biden at 21 percent and Elizabeth Warren at 19 percent.
But another recent poll suggested a three-way tie between the three top-tier contenders and a yet a third suggested Sanders lagging painfully behind Biden and Warren.
Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir said in a statement released to the press on Sunday that “we’ve built a great team in NH and are in a really strong position there. The campaign is now building out our operations to include Massachusetts and Maine state directors as we increase our focus in Super Tuesday states. We are running a 50 state campaign, taking no state or voters for granted and expanding our operations to secure the Democratic nomination.”
Caiazzo was moved to one of those Super Tuesday states – Massachusetts. Caiazzo served as the Sanders 2016 campaign’s state director in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Is New Hampshire a Must Win for Bernie?
While Bernie himself has indicated the contrary, a well-known New Hampshire based political scientist says that the Granite State is a “must win” for Warren or Bernie if either of them is to get the nomination. “New Hampshire is a must-win-or-place state for Senators Sanders and Warren,” said Wayne Lesperance, the vice president of academic affairs and a political science professor at New England College.
“For both candidates, there is no better home-field advantage in the early states than the Granite State.
Sanders is irrelevant. Who in their right mind would ever consider SOCIALISM as a future for our GREAT NATION. Just ask the survivors in Venezuela, and other countries who were FOOLISH ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT SOCIALISM WOULD EVER ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING GOOD. SERIOUSLY??? Our FOUNDING FATHERS GOT IT RIGHT. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES IS ABSOLUTELY THE FINEST DOCUMENT EVER WRITTEN, and truly the BASIS by which our BELOVED NATION grew into a MIGHTY NATION, THE LIVING BEACON OF FREEDOM, THE BEST EXAMPLE OF PRODUCTIVE COLLABORATION AND CREATION. OUR CONSTITUTION HAD WITHSTOOD THE CHALLENGES AND CONCERNS OF OF 200- PLUS YEARS, AND STILL GOING STRONG. SORRY, MR. SANDERS – SOCIALISM WILL NEVER BE THE ANSWER. NEVER!!!!! As President Reagan said – “STAY THE COURSE”. Good advice then, IMPERATIVE ADVICE NOW.
Amazing to see Sen Sanders and how desperate he is this time? I was for him the last time he ran against Hillary and gave money . This time I see he is willing to give away the kitchen sink, Free health care, free public college, open the border and on and on? WOW. Yet he was set up by Hillary and the DNC and he said little on what they did to him. WHY NOT? He might have been President now he will never be. He appears tired now and his last saying to control POP. around the world that we here the US pay for the abortions? WHAT? Yes we need a single pay health care system like the rest of the WORLD but for years fought by big medical and pharmacy? They gave big bucks to both sides ? Ck this out and you will see the donations no doubt? VOTERS beware of who is now out here and what they say to try to WIN ? Ask WHY?
good you should your a communist that simple move to china
As former Democratic president Jimmy Carter has stated, Bernie Sanders is simply too damned old to be running for president, and should have been forced to retire from the US Senate a decade ago! It’s the fault of voters when politicians are elected and re-elected multiple times, serving for decades, until their retirement benefits will exceed their Congressional salaries!
Spot on, 11th GA…. and isn’t he already ‘wealthy enough already’ to not need ‘all that extra money’ that could go to low income housing or some other GND plan of his?
Sorry, but his hypocrisy is overwhelming any chance I’d ever vote for him anyway, which is nil to start with, since I’m a Free-Market Capitalist and opposed to Socialism (with any prefix or suffix.)
Take note of NH– if they don’t like him maybe the rest of the nation better pay attention to that and vote accordingly