“I think socialist is a word that someone who wants to beat Trump should consider carefully before embracing,” said one senior adviser to a rival campaign…

At the same time, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), who is deciding whether or not he’ll run for president, also distanced himself from the label by declaring that he’s a “capitalist.”

“I don’t see how we’re able to meet any of the fundamental challenges that we have as a country without, in part, harnessing the power of the market,” O’Rourke told reporters in El Paso, Texas.

At a CNN town hall on Monday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), a centrist Democrat, made it known that she thinks Sanders’s policies are slightly unrealistic. When she was asked if she could get behind Medicare for all, she said, “It could be a possibility in the future.”