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“Crazy like a Bernie”Over the weekend Senator Sanders launched his first campaign rally in Brooklyn New York – He was introduced by his wife Jane Sanders and a parade of sincere advocates who shared their stories. Then it was off to a packed warehouse in Chicago where Bernie again made his case for worker’s dignity and fundamental economic change. Today we are going to address two challenges you’re likely to hear against Bernie Sanders. First – He’s old. •His ideas are even older – they date back in America to the early 1900’s as an antidote to the great depression and a check on anarcho-capitalism.•He’s 77 years old, but we have video of him making the exact same arguments when he was only 45 years old. I’d rather have somebody who’s been saying the same thing for over 30 years than somebody who had different positions 30 months ago. •Hillary Clinton is 71 years old. Donald Trump is 72 years old. Joe Biden is 76 years old. •The purpose of age is it assumes the candidate represents younger generational interests. But Bernie has more millennial support than candidate in history. oIn the 2016 primaries Hillary got 766K voters under 30 years old, oTrump zoomed past her with 830K oBernie Sanders got over 2M votes by people under 30 years old. oBernie got more youth voters than Barack Obama did in his 2008 campaign, making him hands down the most supported candidate by Millennials in voting history. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/20/more-young-people-voted-for-bernie-sanders-than-trump-and-clinton-combined-by-a-lot/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.768ca9f4c8db][https://www.vox.com/2016/6/2/11818320/bernie-sanders-barack-obama-2008]Second – Trump WANTS him to win. •A recent poll has Sanders ahead of trump by 11 points in Michigan [https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/mi/michigan_trump_vs_sanders-6768.html]•In 2016 Sanders was ahead of Trump by 20 points in Wisconsin [https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/wi/wisconsin_trump_vs_sanders-5735.html]•Trump wants Bernie because he likes attacking socialism as a boogeyman, but he underestimates how many 2016 Trump voters Bernie takes away. [Clip from The View]Quote of the Day:Bernie concluding remarks at the campaign kickoff rally in Brooklyn New YorkWrite into the show: FeelBernPod@gmail.com