✅ Media isn’t taking Bernie seriously. Lead in Iowa, comparisons to Trump 2016 could spell surprise

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✍  For the first time, three weeks ahead of Caucus Day in Iowa, Sen. Bernie Sanders leads the 2020 Democratic presidential field.  That’s according to a Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll, even as many expected Sanders to slowly fade away. CNN commentator Joe Lockhart warned that the media isn’t taking seriously the possibility that Sanders, a self-avowed socialist, could be the Democratic nominee.  Appearing on SE Cupp Unfiltered, the former Clinton White House press secretary supported his argument by citing how President Donald Trump was first received by the media.  “There’s real shades of 2016,” Lockhart said on Saturday. “I’m gonna get flamed on Twitter tonight for the next thing I’m going to say, but the media early on did not take Donald Trump seriously. So they didn’t vet him and say, does your plan add up? And you know what about your plan on Iran and getting out?”    “Up until now, the media has not taken Bernie Sanders that seriously,” he continued.  “He would say th ...
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