Monday he’s heading to one of the poorest counties in America, McDowell County, West Virginia, which Trump carried by a ratio of 3-to-1. Sanders views these enclaves as critical for the future of the Democratic Party and, by extension, the country. Sanders, of course, is not a Democrat, despite caucusing with Democrats in the Senate for years and running in the party’s 2016 presidential primary. So Sanders has adopted what he sees as an “outside strategy” to complement his new status as an inside player. But they are the same sets of voters: individuals who left the Democratic Party, may never have associated with it at all or were never politically active in the first place.

Source: Huffington Post March 09, 2017 20:48 UTC