Article snippet: Sen. MORE in 2016. The 2020 candidate went on Fox News, Trump’s turf, on Monday night for a town hall, where audience members cheered when asked if they would support Medicare for All. Sanders shared the clip on social media several times the following day. “I understand why some had concerns about @BernieSanders going on Fox,” Sanders’s campaign manager Faiz Shakir tweeted after the event. “But if you watched that home run performance for the last hour, you also realized this is the ticket to beating Trump.” Sanders last week visited battleground states Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that were key to Trump’s 2016 victory. The Fox News town hall was held in Bethlehem, Pa., a city famous for its working-class roots in the steel industry. But Republicans see Medicare for All as a winning issue for their side as well, and they’re eager to attack Sanders and other White House hopefuls on the proposal. “Bernie Sanders is not going to win over President Trump’s voters with his promise of higher taxes and more government control over their lives,” Republican National Committee spokesman Steve Guest wrote in an email. “Sanders would rip nearly 200 million Americans off of their plans and make private health insurance illegal even if you liked your current plan. Most voters simply don’t support that.” On the other side, Diane May, communications director for Our Revolution, a group that grew out of Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign, noted that many audience members a... Link to the full article to read more