Should the Democrats bring back Bernie?

Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine spoke to University of Michigan students and supporters in the battleground state this week. Red Alert Politics asked students if they thought the Democrats should bring back Bernie Sanders after Clinton’s health scare at the 9/11 memorial in New York and a rough week in the polls.



In the latest LA Times/USC poll, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was leading with 47 percent compared to Clinton’s 41 percent in a head-to-head matchup. Trump has also taken leads in key battleground states like Ohio where he is up 3 percent in a Suffolk University poll, and in Iowa where he is leading Hillary by 8 percent in a Monmouth University poll.



Students at the University of Michigan questioned Hillary’s overall health and her ability to lead due to the stresses that come with being president of the United States. One student said, “I think that [the campaign is] just playing the pneumonia card. There is something neurologically wrong with her, and I feel that Bernie is in better health.”



Another student said that the Democratic party needs to do something because, “when you have a candidate that collapses in 78-degree weather I think that there is more going on than pneumonia, and I think that it doesn’t take a brain surgeon or a medical doctor to see that there are serious issues.”



Aside from any possible health issues, several students said they liked Bernie’s policies better than Hillary’s and would rather have him as the Democratic nominee.



A student sitting in her tree hammock said that she and her friends “couldn’t decide and that there would be a lot of pros and cons either way.”