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		</div><p>Worried Democrats have intensified their assault against the party’s presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders as the Vermont senator marched toward South Carolina’s weekend primary eyeing a knockout blow.</p>
<p>At least three leading candidates, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Mike Bloomberg reinforced their anti-Sanders rhetoric with paid attack ads for the first time.</p>
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<p>And a new political group was spending big to undermine Mr Sanders’ standing with African American voters.</p>
<p>“Socialist Bernie Sanders is promising a lot of free stuff,” says a brochure sent to 200,000 black voters in South Carolina by The Big Tent Project, a new organisation trying to derail Mr Sanders’ candidacy.</p>
<p>“Nominating Bernie means we reelect Trump. We can’t afford Bernie Sanders.”</p>
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<p>While uncoordinated, the multi-pronged broadside just five days before the first Southern primary represents the Democrats’ most aggressive attempt to knock Mr Sanders down.</p>
<p>It reflects growing concern within his party that the self-described democratic socialist is tightening his grip on the presidential nomination amid fears from some that he is too extreme to defeat President Donald Trump this autumn.</p>
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<p>It also underscores the precarious state of Joe Biden’s campaign.</p>
<p>The former vice president has long been viewed as the unquestioned front-runner in South Carolina because of his support from black voters.</p>
<p>But as the contest nears, Mr Sanders is also making a strong play in the state. If he can eat into Biden’s base of support, that would raise fundamental questions about the future of Biden’s candidacy.</p>
<blockquote><p>When it comes to building on President Obama&#8217;s legacy, Bernie Sanders just can&#8217;t be trusted</p></blockquote>
<p>Mr Sanders has shifted new staff into the state from Nevada in the last 24 hours, expanded his South Carolina advertising and added events to his schedule.</p>
<p>“There’s an air of desperation about it,” Mr Sanders senior adviser Jeff Weaver said of the fresh attacks.</p>
<p>“You’ve got candidates, you’ve got super PACs (political action committees), all piling on to stop Bernie Sanders. They know he has the momentum in the race.”</p>
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<p>Mr Biden still predicted he would win “by plenty” in Saturday’s contest, the first with a sizeable black population to weigh in.</p>
<p>Regardless of whether Mr Sanders scores an upset in South Carolina, polls suggest he will perform well when more than a dozen states vote in the March 3 Super Tuesday contests. That’s when critics fear Mr Sanders could build an insurmountable delegate lead.</p>
<p>Reflecting his growing focus on Sanders in recent days, Mr Buttigieg released his first attack ad of the 2020 campaign, highlighting Mr Sanders’ call for a government-financed health care system as a example of the Democratic front-runner’s “polarisation”.</p>
<p>At the same time, Mr Biden released an online ad accusing Mr Sanders of trying to undermine President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign with a possible primary challenge. Mr Sanders ultimately did not challenge Mr Obama from the left.</p>
<p>“When it comes to building on President Obama’s legacy, Bernie Sanders just can’t be trusted,” the Biden ad says.</p>
<p>And Mr Bloomberg released a new ad of his own assailing Mr Sanders’ record on gun control, citing Mr Sanders’ endorsement by the National Rifle Association when he first ran for Congress decades ago.</p>
<p>While he once had the NRA’s backing, Mr Sanders proudly proclaims his “F” rating from the pro-gun organisation now. And just last week, several gun control advocates who survived the Parkland, Florida, school shooting endorsed him.</p>
<p>Still, Mr Bloomberg tweeted: “The NRA paved the road to Washington for Bernie Sanders. We deserve a president who is not beholden to the gun lobby.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">What Bernie says: “Special interests are bad.”</p>
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<p>They’ve begun running attack ads again him, but Mr Sanders may benefit most by the sheer number of candidates still in the race. There are still seven high-profile Democrats fighting among themselves – and splitting up the anti-Sanders vote – in trying to emerge as the strongest alternative to him.</p>
<p>There was no sign on Monday that any of the eight candidates still in the race was close to withdrawing.</p>
<p>Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar, who finished in a distant fifth or sixth place in Nevada over the weekend, actually announced plans to launch a $4.2 million ad buy across several Super Tuesday states that vote next week.</p>
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<p>Billionaire activist Tom Steyer has yet to spend money on an anti-Sanders campaign, but he went after him by name on Monday before more than 100 voters at a breakfast in Hilton Head.</p>
<p>Steyer warned, “We can’t nominate someone who is going to divide us.”</p>
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