Joe Biden is trying to reach young progressive voters, including many Bernie Sanders fans. Here's what some of them want to hear from the former vice president.
Many want to see Biden endorse progressive policies like the Green New Deal and “Medicare for all,” ideas Sanders championed. This month, Bidento offer free tuition at public colleges and universities for students from households with incomes less than $125,000 a year, a notable concession to the left.
The avid Sanders supporter, 19, wants to see Biden endorse policy proposals like the Green New Deal and cut ties with people in the fossil fuel industry. She also wants him to do more to address his role in shepherding the 1994 anti-crime bill into law and how the wave of mass incarceration that followed affected communities of color. And she would like to see him adopt Sanders’ “Medicare for all” proposal so no American is left without health insurance.
Young voters such as Keranen propelled Sanders to a virtual tie for first place in the Iowa caucuses, and the senator finished first in the following two primary contests. But now that he’s falling behind Biden in the delegate count, Keranen is disappointed that the Democratic Party will likely nominate the centrist former vice president. Getting Trump out of office is important, she said, but the priority should be advocating for progressive ideas like universal healthcare.
Keranen said she finds it hard to support Biden knowing he pushed for the 1994 anti-crime bill, and that he doesn’t support erasing all student debt in the U.S., or universal healthcare, especially in the middle of a pandemic.To her, his consistent message that “people want results, not a revolution” means he does not understand voters like her who want “an upheaval of the system.”
Biden could do more by talking to Latinos about issues they care about, like affordable housing and healthcare, and by hiring young people of color so voters feel represented in the campaign, Moreno said.
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