In a Friday interview on the US TV show “Real Time with Bill Maher”, Ms Magazine founder Gloria Steinem, who in 1996 described Sanders as an “honorary woman”, said she believed young women only supported Clinton’s rival because “the boys are with Bernie”. “You know… I’m convinced God created pollsters to make astrologers look accurate…” During a Bloomberg Politics breakfast in New Hampshire last week, Clinton campaign press secretary Brian Fallon called on the Sanders campaign to control internet commenters who were aggressively confronting Clinton supporters online. “He may have to tweak that answer a little bit, or we may have to get a write-in candidate”.
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Staff problems plagued Clinton’s 2008 White House run, and there was talk of a shakeup at about this point in her earlier primary fight.
“Flint should be able to start making the repairs you need to restore safe water as soon as possible”, Clinton said. Most younger women don’t doubt that they will see a female president in their lifetime: they just wonder why it has to be Clinton.
“Our government belongs to all of us, and not just a small number of wealthy people”, he said. “Anybody who is supporting me that is doing the sexist things – we don’t want them”, he told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. Devine suggested Clinton was trying to “distract voters” by focusing on the alleged online attacks. She added: “Let’s go down a path where we can actually tell people what we will do”.
Clinton’s ideas are also sure to face opposition from congressional Republicans.
Journalists who have written about the Bernie Bros on social media have themselves become targets for harassment, prompting more allegations against the group.
But in a Democratic primary traditionally powered by the most liberal voters, pragmatism has been less appealing than big promises.
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A UMass Lowell/7News tracking poll from February 1, the day of the Iowa caucuses, to February 8, saw Sanders’ lead in New Hampshire shrink by half following his narrow defeat in Iowa and the first one-on-one debate against Clinton. Sanders has 56 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 40 percent. You know, there is nothing wrong with that. “In private, they sent an email out complaining, blaming the Democratic party for leaving the keys in the vehicle…’All I did was drive it out'”. “Every industrialized country in the world offers universal health care”.
