Bernie blowback: How Sanders' primary endorsements have sparked a Democratic midterm war

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : "The DSA, which Bernie's part of, is trying to hijack the Democratic Party, and what you're seeing is people don't want that," said Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a centrist and pro-Israel Democrat from New Jersey.
42% : "The Democratic Party wants to be the Democratic Party, and he's trying to use the Democratic Party as a vessel for socialism, and people don't want socialism.
41% : At the heart of the debate: whether to nominate candidates more friendly to the party establishment and seen as wooing swing voters, or to pick democratic socialists or further-left progressives who can energize a restive party base but who risk alienating independents.
37% : " But Sanders' critics say he is trying to shift the party in a direction that most voters will reject outside of the very liberal districts where members of the Democratic Socialists of America have won primaries.
36% : Nic Antaya/Bloomberg/Getty Images A critical House race with sharp divisions on display Down the ballot in Michigan, party leaders are increasingly anxious that Lawrence is surging in a three-way primary for a Lansing-area seat/
30% : In the Senate, Sanders has backed El-Sayed, whose pursuit of "Medicare for All" and criticisms of Israel and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee have made him a darling of the progressive left.
30% : The 35-year-old democratic socialist and climate activist is under fire from senior Black Democrats, including Jeffries and Meeks, for remarks published last week by The Huffington Post in which he said Black political leaders "defang the White left.

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