There's an argument that Sanders has already won by getting the issues he cares about into the political blood stream If Sanders hadn't been in the race, would Clinton have taken a firm position on the Keystone XL pipeline the minimum wage and the Trans Pacific Partnership, or TPP, Asia trade deal "No, I don't think he's pushed her," said pollster Joel Benenson, a Clinton strategist "I think she has said repeatedly she's a progressive who likes to get things done.