Bernie Sanders Draws Crowds With Matter-of-Fact Message

By Peter Nicholas



June 6, 2015 8:30 p.m. ET

Trailing Hillary Clinton by nearly 50 points in Democratic field, Sen. Sanders keeps focus on issues from wealth inequality to trade pact

KEENE, N.H.— Bernie Sanders asks a lot of from his audience when he delivers a campaign speech.

Defying most rules of modern political rhetoric, he doesn’t offer quips or disparage his Democratic rivals or use the platform to thank lists of friends and supporters.

The long-shot candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, in a matter-of-fact tone, typically reels off dry statistics about the rich getting richer while the middle class gets poorer.

Yet Sen. Sanders, an independent from Vermont, is turning into a box-office draw. Running nearly 50 points behind Hillary Clinton in the Democratic field, he is attracting sizable crowds as he and his tiny entourage trundle through New Hampshire and Iowa delivering the dour message that America is at risk of morphing into an “oligarchy” dominated by wealthy families and powerful corporations.

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