The Daily Beast Podcast: Hipsters for Bernie
On The Daily Beast podcast, Lizzie Crocker reports back on a Bernie Sanders party in Brooklyn.
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Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders gathered at more than 3,000 house parties on Wednesday to listen to a simulcast from the Vermont socialist senator. Daily Beast reporter Lizzie Crocker attended one of the parties at a Bushwick loft in Brooklyn, where she found the hipster Bernie-maniacs to be surprisingly earnest and cynicism free.
On the Daily Beast podcast, Crocker talks with Daily Beast editors John Avlon and Noah Shachtman about the passionate (and occasionally stoned) Sanders supporters she met.
Crocker said the party reminded her of the early stages of the Obama campaign.
“There’s so much hope in all these young voters who’ve never even voted in an election before. They’re so idealistic.”
Despite the die-hard enthusiasm of Sanders supporters, Avlon wasn’t optimistic about the senators chances, although he thought Sanders would win at least one of the primaries.
“I just have to say, if the phrase ‘Commander-in-Chief Bernie Sanders’ doesn’t make you laugh, you’re not high enough,” Avlon said.
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