Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) waves during a campaign rally at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, S.C., in 2016. Cruz argued that the route to victory for a Republican candidate was not to build cross-party appeal to win over moderates and independents. 2016 Trump would be surprised to hear that. Polling indicates that the density of liberals in the Democratic Party (51 percent) is lower than the density of conservatives among Republicans (nearly three-quarters). But the density of self-identified liberals in the Democratic Party has grown quickly over the past two decades, helping to power Sanders’s insurgent candidacy three years ago.

Source: Washington Post February 21, 2019 14:15 UTC