Nearly 500 people have signed up to attend the Bernie Sanders campaign kickoff event tonight at 7 p.m.in Sayreville, which will be hosted by with Assemblyman John Wisniewski, the Democratic presidential contender’s state chairman.
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“He’s a regular everyday person and that’s what we need leading the country”, she said.
Sanders continued in his typical blunt style by saying that though Clinton or Martin O’Malley are good candidates, the country needs more from the president.
At the Democratic town hall in Des Moines, Iowa on Monday, Bernie Sanders met one concerned citizen who took him to task on his ability to support women’s issues, especially over his female opponent.
Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is opening a campaign office in Springfield.
An estimated 15,000 people packed themselves iinto the River Center in Saint Paul for the Sanders campaign rally, including thousands who listened to the speech in an overflow room. “It won’t go away, no matter who gets elected”, he said.
“We will raise taxes”.
The background: Following a steady drumbeat of criticism from rival Hillary Clinton over a lack of specificity on how he’d fund single-payer health care, Sanders last week released the details of his plan, including a 6.2% employer payroll tax that would be passed on to workers. “He’s believable. Hopefully we’re right about that and he can actually accomplish something”. “Frankly, if the voter turnout is not high then we’re going to be struggling”. When you examine Bernie Sanders, he has voted with his conscience and worked for these things his entire career. The phenomenon has at least as much to do with Clinton as with Sanders: Democrats are eager for an alternative to her inauthentic politics and cautious policies. Hillary Clinton doesn’t just reject that idea, she is attacking it.
His crowds in Iowa and New Hampshire – where Sanders has put in dozens of appearances apiece in recent months – have been smaller, as he travels from town to town. “But other elements of the establishment, even if they are not supportive of my candidacy, today understand that the major task in front of us is to defeat right-wing extremism”.
It’s so hard to do anything to pay your bills, you’re ashamed all the time…when you can’t buy presents for your children it’s really really really hard – and I work 3, 4, 5 jobs sometimes, always minimum wage, I have a degree, divorced and it’s just I’m waiting for disability to come through so my parents have to support me – it’s just hard.
Sanders’ proposals will cost money.
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“I am probably the most progressive member in the United States Senate, but I have-over the years not only in the Senate, but in the House-worked with Republicans when there was common ground”, Sanders said. Becky Lourey introduced Sanders on Tuesday, urging supporters to remain active through the campaign into the March 1 caucuses and beyond.
