Big wins for Sanders wing in Democratic platform

Published July 26, 2020 4:01am ET



Those in the far-left Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party achieved a big win in the crafting of the Democratic National Committee’s 2020 platform. The bulk of the draft document is lifted word-for-word from the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force policy recommendations.

In an effort to bridge ideological gaps in the party and shore up votes for Joe Biden from those who supported Sanders, the Biden campaign and aides to Sanders agreed to create committees of allies from each of their ideological wings to create defined policies that all Democrats could unify around.

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