Can the Democratic Socialists of America win over voters?
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Can the Democratic Socialists of America win over voters?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 202632 min
  • Politics

Abolish ICE? Abolish borders, No prisons? The co-chair of the DSA speaks to us about what the party really stands for and whether they can persuade undecided Americans to vote for them. The Democratic Socialists of America can count some of the country’s most high-profile politicians in its ranks, such as Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Until recently, the organisation had only a few thousand members and sat on the fringes of US politics. But since the rise of Donald Trump and opponents like Bernie Sanders, the DSA has grown into a na...

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. Few years ago it was a fringe organisation, really, based in Washington DC. It is now very much front and centre of a movement that's turning the Democratic Party on its head, at least wants to. So who are the Democratic Socialists of America? Why are they gaining

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popularity right now? And could they one day end up taking over the Democratic Party? Welcome to America. America's America's from BBC News. Whatever you want to talk about, I'll do keep my wife's name the hell out of your mouth because she's way out of your league. The tide is coming.

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And this time we intend to win it all. So he doesn't want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace, gifted by the emir of Qatar.

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