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Bernie's revolution gets a test run for 2028 in Michigan and Wisconsin
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LA CROSSE, Wis., Progressive insurgents Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed want to shake up the next race for the White House, a notion that will likely petrify many top Democrats.
Key facts
- LA CROSSE, Wis., Progressive insurgents Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed want to shake up the next race for the White House, a notion that will likely petrify many top Democrats
- They aren't running for president, they're vying for statewide office this year in presidential battlegrounds, and their campaigns are closely watched tests of the Bernie Sanders–style populism they
- Progressives have long argued that Democrats twice lost the White House to Donald Trump not because voters see them as too far left, as many moderates believe, but because they're viewed as champions
- Friction point: Some Democratic strategists who think Hong is too far left are quick to point out that although progressive leaders Sanders and New York Rep
Summary
They aren't running for president, they're vying for statewide office this year in presidential battlegrounds, and their campaigns are closely watched tests of the Bernie Sanders–style populism they want their party to embrace in 2028. It's a question that has haunted Democrats for a decade: Is America ready for a full-on left turn in politics, like what Sanders pitched when he ran for president in 2016? The prospect worries many old-guard Democrats who fear Hong and El-Sayed can't win a November general election. Hong, a self-described democratic socialist running for Wisconsin governor, is leading the polls for Tuesday's primary by double digits, as the party establishment tries to stop her.