A dive into Hillary Clinton’s plans to capture the youth vote in November revealed that her strategy largely revolves around stealing Bernie Sanders.
According to a Politico story published Monday, that goes for Sanders’s staff, his campaign’s technology, his message of “revolution”, and even the man himself.
After the lead, the first three paragraphs of the piece read:
The story goes on to mention how Donald Trump is making a credible play for millennial men and is actually pushing Clinton among the youth vote in recent polling.
Her approach to stemming the tide is all about Bernie, even when it involves a third party. The pro-Clinton camp is using billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer to pitch millennial voters, for instance. From where has Steyer acquired the personnel to execute the play? No wild guesses necessary.
Sanders thumped Clinton among young voters during the unexpectedly long and competitive Democratic primary, taking 71 percent of them to Clinton’s 28 percent in a study of 25 states from Tufts University. That exceeded President Obama’s 2008 performance, when he bested Clinton 60 to 35 percent in those same states.
Naturally, that performance has Sanders’s people buzzing, suggesting that the 74-year-old Vermont senator could be an even better surrogate for appealing to the millennial generation than Obama.
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