Bernie Sanders may be lagging in the race for the US Democratic Party nomination, but across the Atlantic his elder brother is betting on the former cross-country runner's stamina to clinch victory.
Britain-based Larry Sanders, 81, was among 'Democrats Abroad' members meeting in Berlin from today, rooting for Bernie Sanders to defeat first Hillary Clinton and then the Republicans' presumptive nominee, celebrity billionaire Donald Trump.
"He is determined, he will go all the way," said the elder Sanders, who lives in Oxford and is active in Britain's Green Party. "He expects there is a good chance that he can still win the nomination, although it's an uphill battle."
Sanders senior said his 74-year-old brother is hoping that his party's delegates will realise he is the best-placed candidate to beat Trump, who "would be a dreadful disaster for the United States and for the world".
"Bernard was a cross-country runner," said Larry. "They run uphill, they run downhill. Somehow or other it always seems to be in the mud.
"And the main thing that determines a good cross-country runner is absolutely determination and stamina, and Bernard has both. He had it when he was a child and he still has it now."
Of the overseas Democrats who voted in the primaries, 69 per cent chose Sanders, the senator from Vermont, against 31 per cent who backed former secretary of state Clinton, the party's front-runner inside the US.
Larry Sanders said many Americans abroad believe that Bernie's policy proposals are not radical or utopian, but in fact daily reality in their European and other host countries.
