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Podcast: Why are young voters supporting Bernie?

Posted at 8:45 AM, Jun 03, 2016
and last updated 2016-06-03 11:45:28-04

Can you feel the Bern yet?



With the California primary less than a week away, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders continues to battle frontrunner Hillary Clinton despite a clear deficit in delegates. The longtime independent has staked his campaign on grassroots support from middle-class and working-class voters but it’s a different electorate that has kept him afloat: millennials.

This week on the podcast, host Jimmy Williams and Scripps politics reporter Miranda Green dig into the growing millennial support for Sanders on college campuses. Why are these millennials such fervent supporters and what does this mean for the Democratic party moving forward?


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