[rad-green] 'Air of Desperation,' Says Sanders Campaign, as Democratic Establishment Launches All-Out Effort to Stop Bernie

*https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/25/air-desperation-says-sanders-campaign-democratic-establishment-launches-all-out
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/25/air-desperation-says-sanders-campaign-democratic-establishment-launches-all-out>Common
Dreams          February 25, 2020'Air of Desperation,' Says Sanders
Campaign, as Democratic Establishment Launches All-Out Effort to Stop
Bernie"You've got candidates, you've got super PACs, all piling on to stop
Bernie Sanders. They know he has the momentum in the race."by Jake Johnson,
staff writer*

*Democratic candidates participate in the presidential primary debate in
Las Vegas on February 19, 2020. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)*

Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign said
<https://apnews.com/6cb5e160744fc577aabc8918c60882b3> Tuesday that it
senses an "air of desperation" from the Democratic and corporate
establishment as Sanders' 2020 primary opponents intensify their attacks in
a last-ditch effort to stop—or at least slow—the Vermont senator's momentum
before the South Carolina primary and Super Tuesday, when 1,357 delegates
are up for grabs.

Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg's campaign attempted to use
made-up quotes as a way to smear
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/25/string-intentional-outright-lies-bloomberg-campaign-deletes-tweets-containing-fake>
Sanders
as a friend of despots. Former Vice President Joe Biden, looking to stop
Sanders from overtaking him in South Carolina, falsely accused
<https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/24/biden-ad-sanders-undermined-obama-election-117218>
the
Vermont senator of trying to thwart Obama's 2012 reelection. Pete Buttigieg
debuted a television ad assailing
<https://twitter.com/wendellpotter/status/1232000154296864769> Medicare for
All with insurance industry talking points.

"We're building a movement to win this election and transform this country.
A corporate-funded think tank whose day has come and gone is no match for
millions of people working in communities across the country."
—People for Bernie

These aggressive attacks on the Democratic frontrunner over just the past
24 hours likely represent a preview of what's to come in Tuesday night's
Democratic debate, the final time the candidates will face off before the
South Carolina primary on Saturday and Super Tuesday on March 3.

Jeff Weaver, a senior adviser to the Sanders campaign, said the wave of
attacks from rival candidates indicates the Vermont senator is in the
driver's seat and centrist Democrats are getting nervous about their
ability to slow him down.

"You've got candidates, you've got super PACs, all piling on to stop Bernie
Sanders," Weaver told <https://apnews.com/6cb5e160744fc577aabc8918c60882b3>
 the *Associated Press*. "They know he has the momentum in the race."

*CNN* reported
<https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/politics/bernie-sanders-2020-rise/index.html>
Tuesday
that following Sanders' landslide win
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/22/thats-called-electability-diverse-coalition-propels-bernie-sanders-big-win-nevada>
in
the Nevada caucus, which cemented the senator's status as the frontrunner,
"the Democratic establishment and the party's sizable moderate wing are
increasingly anxious over his steady march to the presidential
nomination—yet they lack any sort of cohesive plan to stop him."

"In interviews with more than two dozen Democratic lawmakers, aides and
strategists, a picture has emerged of a diffuse and unfocused front against
Sanders, built far more on talk than action," *CNN* reported. "Moderate
Democrats are also pinning their hopes of stopping Sanders in South
Carolina on Biden."

The Big Tent Project
<https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2020/02/19/the-dem-ad-campaign-aimed-at-taking-down-bernie-488357>,
a Democratic organization, "has sent hundreds of thousands of mailers
bashing Bernie Sanders to black voters in South Carolina who voted in the
state's 2016 primary," according
<https://www.axios.com/bernie-sanders-south-carolina-group-658e85b9-2434-4e04-94ce-4a01a8637900.html>
 to *Axios*. The Big Tent Project is a 501(c)(4) organization, meaning it
is not required to disclose its donors.

In a memo
<https://www.thirdway.org/memo/stand-up-to-bernie-or-you-and-we-all-lose>
published
Saturday, the Wall Street-funded
<https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/third-way-majority-our-financial-support-wall-street-business-executives/>
think
tank Third Way pleaded with Sanders' Democratic rivals to stop squabbling
with each other and instead "take the fight to [Sanders] at the next
debate."

"You are almost out of time—Sanders could take a nearly insurmountable
delegate lead on Super Tuesday," Third Way warned, suggesting several lines
of attack against the Vermont senator. "We believe it is imperative that
one of you emerge as the nominee."

People for Bernie tweeted
<https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1231266773032300545> in response
to the the Third Way memo that the Sanders campaign is "building a movement
to win this election and transform this country."

"A corporate-funded think tank whose day has come and gone," the group
added, "is no match for millions of people working in communities across
the country."

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