After the 2016 primary, Hillary Clinton put the onus on Sen. Sanders to bring his backers into the fold. To avoid a repeat of 4 years ago, Joe Biden will likely have to be more proactive and not count on Sanders to do the work unifying the party for him.
of Sanders supporters at the 2016 convention and thousands of Sanders supporters staying home or voting for Trump.
Biden is still missing a key pillar of the vaunted Obama coalition that Sanders won — young people — and Sanders also beat him among Latinos in the West. Four years ago, after it became clear Sanders had no path to winning the Democratic nomination, his campaign shifted its focus to influencing the Democratic Party platform and rules.
Sanders seemed to open the first round of negotiations in public during his remarks Wednesday when he notably refrained from directly criticizing Biden and instead ticked through a litany of policy questions that he intends to ask Biden about at Sunday's debate, including student debt, mass incarceration and immigration.
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