The state’s usually beside-the-point voters could play a key role in the Democratic nominating process this year. Sanders is hoping that a big victory could help him run up a sizable delegate lead against his rivals. ADIt is harder to measure how Sanders is doing district by district, how well his democratic socialist message is playing in parts of Silicon Valley or wealthy, tax-averse Southern California counties. “The campaign really prioritized California in a way that we hadn’t before,” said Rafael Návar, the Sanders campaign’s state director. Aguilar has some answers: the legion of Sanders volunteers, the logic that an energized Trump base can only be challenged by an energized Democratic base.

Source: Washington Post March 01, 2020 22:59 UTC