Sanders Supporters Have No Plans to Relent on Biden as Nominee
- Sanders says he’ll back victor, but some fans say #NeverBiden
- Biden has reached out to Sanders’s supporters with policies
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Progressive activists say they have no intention of easing pressure on Joe Biden to adopt their left-of-center causes as he shifts to the general election, despite fears among Democrats that their efforts could damage Biden’s ability to beat President Donald Trump.
In all but defeating Senator Bernie Sanders for the nomination, Biden has been cool to the most progressive ideas at the heart of Sanders’s campaign, including Medicare for All and the Green New Deal to fight climate change. Biden won a string of recent primaries by drawing an explicit contrast with Sanders, saying voters “don’t want a revolution, they want results.”