As Bernie Sanders gains in the polls, journalists unleash negative coverage

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Independent Sen. and 2020 Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders of Vermont is polling in first place in Iowa, New Hampshire, and California.

Yet, unlike Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, both of whom enjoyed glowing press back when polls showed their respective campaigns gaining traction, Sanders’s success has inspired a deluge of negative press and commentary.

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