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The Democratic Party is Bern-ing down and Trump is loving the glow
The way things are going in the US primaries, there’s no way to avoid another four years of the orange menace
If Bernie Sanders has won Tuesday’s second Democratic primary, right now about 60 million Americans will be rejoicing along with the man they all voted for in 2016, Donald Trump.
At the time of writing on Tuesday morning, the authoritative polling website FiveThirtyEight was giving Sanders a 44% chance of winning the New Hampshire primary, light years ahead of his nearest rivals: in second place, the site rated “No one” with a 28% chance of winning, Joe Biden at 16%, Elizabeth Warren at 5% and Pete Buttigieg at 4%.
New Hampshire, at least in according to the number crunchers, is Sanders’s to lose. ..
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