Inside the Sanders campaign: Supporters, strategies... and socks
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Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has the highest percentage of "strong supporters" among all the 2020 presidential candidates, according to our October for surpassing four million donations sooner than any other presidential candidate in history.
CBS News 2020 campaign reporter Cara Korte has been on the road with the Sanders campaign for the past half a year. Amidst the rolled-up jeans and patterned high socks, an emotional relationship has developed between the senator and his supporters, according to Korte.
"They see him as an O.G. who's been talking about these progressive ideas for more than 30 years," said Korte, adding on that many of Sanders' town hall events are "kind of like group therapies."
During his town halls, Sanders will first ask the audience for any stories about struggling to pay off debt and bills or losing a job, before taking questions.
"And of course, that just makes you think about President Trump and the kind of stories that he would tell on the trail and his supporters would tell on the trail," Korte said.
Sanders also has a particular pattern of campaigning, clustering events in one of the early primary states before making a stop in one of the Super Tuesday states like California.
"In California alone, there are more delegates than those first four states [Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina] combined," Korte said. "And I think when we look at those high rally numbers in Super Tuesday states, it shows that Sanders' campaign is really playing a long game here."
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Host: Anthony Salvanto, Director of Elections and Surveys at CBS News
Guest: CBS News 2020 Campaign Reporter Cara Korte
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