This week’s Liberal Media Scream features the new claim that the left-reaching Democratic Party is closer to the center than the GOP.

Coming after Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said a “majority of the American people” support his liberal ideas, ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd insisted Sunday that “if you look at all the issues and where the public stands, the Democratic Party is actually closer to the center than the Republican Party is.”

Dowd’s comment came after Republican strategist Alice Stewart pointed to how Democrats are “moving very far to the left.”

[Opinion: Democrats getting out on dangerously left-wing limb]

The exchange on the Sunday, March 17 This Week on ABC:

ALICE STEWART: "You can run away from the socialism label, you can run away from labels, but you can’t deny the fact that the Democratic Party is moving very, very far to the left. We’re talking about the Green New Deal. We’re talking about free college education. We’re talking about a lot of policies that are extremely left. The Cortez’s of Washington and the younger generation of Democrats are really causing a divide in the Democratic Party. Nancy Pelosi is having a hard time–"

MATTHEW DOWD: "The Democratic Party – if you look at all the issues and where the public stands, the Democratic Party is actually closer to the center than the Republican Party is. The Democratic Party is much closer to the center."

Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “Dowd illustrates just how far to the left are the political press corps, where they see themselves as sitting in the middle. But they are actually so far to the left that they perceive socialist policy prescriptions as not all that far from that ‘center,’ which is actually well to the left of center.”