MODERATE DEMOCRATS SEARCH for alternative to Sen. Bernie Sanders as he rises in the polls. Some party officials and independent expenditure groups focused on down-ballot races worry he could arrest the Democratic suburban expansion. The nightmare scenario involves falling short in the bet that Sanders’s populist credentials can win back the Rust Belt, while also losing some of the front-line suburban districts won by Democrats in 2018. Sanders’s rivals have been playing up their ability to win there: “I bring the receipts of bringing in people in the suburbs,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar said this week, while former Vice President...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 31, 2020 10:30 UTC