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"With our latest fund-raising numbers, we now know we'll have the resources to compete everywhere, including all the Super Tuesday states and throughout the South, even Arkansas," said Jeff Weaver, Mr. Sanders's campaign manager. "We've heard for months, 'Bernie will flame out after Iowa and New Hampshire.' But the truth is that we have the resources, and can raise the resources, to go all the way to the convention."

"There's something admirable about Sanders's reluctance to attribute his political beliefs to autobiography: he doesn't want voters thinking that his commitment to redistributive economics stems from anything other than a deep-seated sense of fairness. He has neither the conventional politician's instinct for sharing relatable details nor the contemporary left's reverence for personal testimony. Still, he's running for President, and so he has reluctantly cracked open the door to his private life, even if his supporters are drawn to him, in part, because of that reluctance."