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Bernie Sanders more popular than Trump in Europe - as well as the US
Newsweek: Bernie Sanders is More Popular Than Trump in Europe, Too:
Multiple polls have shown Sen. Bernie Sanders to be by some distance the most popular political figure in the United States and certainly more liked than President Donald Trump, who continues to be beset by plummeting approval ratings. But it also appears clear that Sanders is far more popular than the president in Europe.
Just days after Trump received a frosty reception on his first trip across the Atlantic since entering the White House, Sanders earned a rapturous reception from more than 1,000 students at Berlin’s Free University Wednesday. Sanders was in the German capital to launch the German edition of his book, Our Revolution.
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Sanders, meanwhile, has long been popular in Europe. In the Democratic primary against Hillary Clinton, he won more than 60 percent of the vote in Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom.
The reasons for that popularity are not hard to fathom. Sanders’ socialist policies are far more mainstream in Europe than in the United States. In particular, his call for universal healthcare, while deemed a far-left fantasy by even some Democrats in the U.S., is the norm in Europe and even supported by conservative parties.
If his speech in Berlin was any guide, Europeans also are big fans of his excoriating of Trump. Indeed, Sanders even tried to repair some of the damage Trump may have caused.
