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    Beyond ideology: The voters torn between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden

    by Evan Halper and Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times Jan 20, 2020 5 minutes

    DES MOINES, Iowa - The day after Joe Biden announced he would not run for president in 2016, some supporters in Iowa did a surprising thing: They volunteered for their second-choice candidate - Bernie Sanders.

    It was an early indication of a counterintuitive dynamic at work four years later, now that the two men are running against each other. They are locked in an ideological struggle for Democrats' 2020 nomination that pits the politically moderate Biden, a classic party insider, against the liberal Sanders, a blow-up-the-system outsider. And yet they appeal to some of the same voters.

    Both campaigns believe there is a swath of voters - mostly white, working-class voters, including those who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 after backing Barack Obama twice - who are torn between Biden

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