{"id":1514,"date":"2020-02-24T14:16:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T14:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2020-02-24T14:16:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T14:16:45","slug":"expert-comment-is-bernie-sanders-now-a-threat-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/02\/24\/expert-comment-is-bernie-sanders-now-a-threat-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Comment: Is Bernie Sanders now a threat to Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Rubrick Biegon, Lecturer in International Relations, responds to Senator Bernie Sanders&#8217; victory at the Nevada primaries:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018By winning the Nevada caucuses,<strong>\u00a0Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders<\/strong>\u00a0consolidates his position as the\u00a0<strong>early frontrunner<\/strong>\u00a0for the Democratic nomination for the\u00a0<strong>US presidency<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Sanders\u2019 success thus far is driven\u00a0<strong>primarily by enthused young voters<\/strong>. In contrast to his Democratic rivals, his support is based on lower-income working-class voters than the highly-educated\u00a0<strong>professional voters<\/strong>\u00a0that have increasingly turned toward the Democratic Party in recent elections. Polls also suggest that strong support from\u00a0<strong>Latino voters is key to Sanders\u2019 wider appea<\/strong>l.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full response <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/24491\/is-bernie-sanders-now-a-threat-to-trump\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Rubrick Biegon, Lecturer in International Relations, responds to Senator Bernie Sanders&#8217; victory at the Nevada primaries: \u2018By winning the Nevada caucuses,\u00a0Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders\u00a0consolidates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/02\/24\/expert-comment-is-bernie-sanders-now-a-threat-to-trump\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54814,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131000],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}