Working Families Party Endorses Bernie Sanders

The progressive Working Families Party has officially endorsed Vermont Senator and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders for President.

The latest CNN/WMUR poll shows 50% of likely Democratic primary voters in the Granite State will vote for Sanders. Clinton garnered 40 percent of support, while former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley had 1 percent.

The endorsement, which was based both on the membership vote and the votes of the WFP’s national advisory board of state party organizations and affiliated groups, will the WFP says “bring Senator Sanders’ campaign the support of the party’s activist base and skilled operatives”. Bernie Sanders, who’s running as a Democrat in 2016. Clinton, meanwhile, was viewed 68 percent favorably to 24 percent unfavorably by likely Democratic primary voters.

With Biden no longer in the race, it appears that most of the vice president’s support has gone to Clinton.

Sanders: Up 4 points, from 46 percent. About 6-in-10 (59%) say they think Clinton is most likely to win the Democratic primary there, up from 42% saying so in September, and 70% say she’s got the best chance to win the general election next year, up from 51% in September.

After being founded in NY in 1998, the Working Families Party opened chapters in 10 states and launched a number of campaigns that have led to higher minimum wages and the creation of paid sick leave in several states.

Clinton: 15 percent, up 2 points from September. “Bernie Sanders is a fearless, experienced leader capable of seeing the truth and standing up to big private power, even when it is nearly impossibly hard”. Among self-described moderates, Clinton led 45 percent to 44 percent. The poll showed 48 percent of undeclared voters said they plan to pick up a Republican ballot, while 38 percent said they intend to take a Democratic ballot, and 14 percent were unsure. Sanders performs better against almost all of the Republican candidates than Clinton. Sanders has often appeared ill at ease in discussion foreign policy and national security issues; just this week, his spokeswoman instructed reporters at a Baltimore press conference not to ask any questions about ISIS.