The liberal agenda that Sen. Bernard Sanders‘ presidential run helped push to the forefront has proved popular with Democratic voters even in the old farm towns of Iowa, where party officials say the pressure is increasing on Hillary Rodham Clinton to move left to compete in the first-in-the-nation caucuses.
Mr. Sanders, a Vermont independent who proudly calls himself a socialist, entered the race for the Democratic nomination last week championing the agenda of the party’s liberal activists: expand Social Security benefits, break up Wall Street banks, limit money in political campaigns, provide free college tuition and raise the minimum wage to a $15 “living wage.”
He insisted that those were “the issues that are on the hearts and minds of the American people.”
Iowa party officials closest to Democratic caucus goers agreed.
“The people here associated with the Democratic Party are all for it — for expanding Social Security, coming down on Wall Street, green energy. All of that. It’s just very much what we believe in,” said James Berge, Iowa Democratic Party chairman for Worth County, a rural community of fading farm towns on the state’s border with Minnesota.
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