Sen. Bernie Sanders (I.-Vt.) is running for president as an advocate for working-class Americans. “If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.” The candidate has also come under pressure to release his tax returns. Think Progress, a liberal website, called Sanders’s wealth “very off-brand and embarrassing.” Sanders “obscures his wealth to relate to the 99 percent,” the outlet wrote. Even before his most recent book, Sanders was comfortably in the upper middle class. As Vox pointed out during the 2016 primary, Sanders wasn’t winning all working-class voters: “Sanders’s victories aren’t being powered by a groundswell of white working-class support, but instead stem from his most reliable base since the start of the primary: young voters.” Vox analyzed Sanders’s 2016 results and found that Hillary Clinton did better with older white working-class voters and also with nonwhite working-class voters.

Source: Washington Post April 15, 2019 13:00 UTC