The Hidden History of Sanders’s Plot to Primary Obama

The Hidden History of Sanders’s Plot to Primary Obama

Bernie Sanders got so close to running a primary challenge to President Barack Obama that Senator Harry Reid had to intervene to stop him. It took Reid two conversations over the summer of 2011 to get Sanders to scrap the idea, according to multiple people who remember the incident, which has not been previously reported. Leahy, alarmed, warned Jim Messina, Obama’s presidential reelection-campaign manager.