Bernie Sanders supporters greet early numbers with mixed reactions

[brooklynite]

Seattle Times

As Washington results started to appear on the TV screen at Hillside Bar on Capitol Hill, Bernie Sanders supporters greeted the early numbers with mixed reactions.

Some voiced disappointment, but campaign staffer Supreet Kaur was holding out hope. She said staffers and volunteered helped drive many voters to cast their ballots in the last day, and those voters haven’t been counted yet.

“We sent volunteers to mosques and grocery stores” and to speak with cab drivers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, she said. “With the late returns … I think our lead will increase.”

Wearing a blue Bernie shirt, Kaur said the media narrative about moderates consolidating around Joe Biden has hurt Sanders. She decided to back the Vermont senator, she said, because even her stepson knows that people like Jeff Bezos have too much money, considering how many people are sleeping on the streets. Only Sanders has consistently spoken out against the “grotesque inequality” in the U.S. Reducing that inequality would make a better future for children like her son, she added.