Bernie Sanders’ tough love for the Harris campaign

Last nighttime astatine the Democratic National Convention, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders urged Americans to enactment Vice President Kamala Harris’ run for the presidency.

Simple enough? Well, possibly not.

Any astute perceiver knows that Sanders has a notoriously testy narration with the Democratic establishment. And he’s been sparing successful his words of praise for Harris’ run truthful far.

Meanwhile, the constituencies wherever Sanders has polled powerfully for years — young people, minorities, and progressives — were among the anemic points successful President Joe Biden’s conjugation that led galore Democrats to shriek for his replacement.

Now, with conscionable 75 days until the election, those aforesaid Democrats are betting that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz tin enactment up these cardinal factions. And they’re asking Bernie for help.

With that successful mind, Playbook co-author and Deep Dive big Ryan Lizza spoke to Sanders astatine the CNN-Politico Grill to get a much honorable reflection connected the Harris run than what you’ll perceive successful a DNC stump speech.

In their conversation, they talked astir whether helium thinks Joe Biden should person stepped speech successful the archetypal place; however Democrats tin triumph backmost young people, minorities, and progressives; arsenic good arsenic wherever helium agrees with Harris’s policies, and wherever helium thinks she needs to travel a small successful his absorption to win.