Jeff Weaver, the campaign manager for Bernie Sanders’s presidential run, made the case this evening that Sanders is the most electable Democrat in the race.
Weaver made the case in an interview on MSNBC:
“Look, the truth of the matter about electability is, if Democrats want win you have to be able to win Democrats and you have to be able to win the lion’s share of independents,” said Weaver.
“And the truth of matter is if we look at the polls, I’m not just making this up, if you look at polling he consistently does better with independents than Secretary Clinton does. If you look at the recent polls coming out of Iowa and New Hampshire, in head-to-heads against the Republicans, he does far better than Secretary Clinton against every single one of them. For instance in New Hampshire he is ahead of Trump by 19 points. She’s only ahead of Trump by one point. Do you think Democrats want to be spending money in a general election to defend New Hampshire?”
