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Hello, welcome to another episode of The Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.

I'm Matthew Glacier, we're here with Sarah Cliff and Jane Kostin,

and we're going to talk a little bit about the 2020 field,

and particularly about the relationship of the 2020 field to the weeds.

Not to the weeds podcast per se, but to the spiritual plane of weed ziness.

And I guess this is loosely prompted by the fact that better work hopped into the presidential race.

Hoptup onto a counter.

He counter that is the 2020.

He leapt onto the table throwing his metaphorical hat in the ring.

And an immediate criticism that he took was that he was a little vague on policy.

In general, that he had, I think Sarah was in the midst of sort of the reporting eye of the storm, right?

But like an important part, I guess, of the 2020 primary is that whenever anybody gets in,

because they're not Bernie Sanders, they are pelted with a bunch of demands that they explicitly endorse the very unpopular aspects of Bernie's Medicare for All-Bill

that Bernie himself does not ever talk about.

And then when they don't, they get criticized.

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