Viewer's Guide: Sanders upset in Michigan intensifies race
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders' narrow upset win over Hillary Clinton in Michigan could crank up the intensity level between the Democratic presidential contenders at their eighth debate Wednesday night in the political proving ground of Florida.
[...] Michigan gives Sanders bragging rights to a big Rust Belt state victory and the success of his argument that U.S. trade deals take away jobs.
Sanders' win over Clinton in Michigan came largely as a result of his drive to cast trade deals as "disastrous" for working class Americans.
Look, too, for more back-and-forth over how Sanders voted on the 2009 auto industry bailout.
Clinton has criticized him for voting against a bill that year that provided billions of dollars to rescue the auto industry.
Sanders, who has tried to make inroads with black voters, sought to mop up after the debate by saying he only meant that many white people aren't aware of the pressures and police oppression facing black Americans.
The death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was killed in 2012 in Sanford, Florida, during an altercation with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, remains a wound that won't heal among blacks.
The setting of this debate is swing-state Florida, with 99 Democratic delegates at stake Tuesday, as well as bragging rights for showing strength in perhaps the most bitterly contested battleground in politics.