The Vermont senator, who has yet to formally endorse Clinton, said in a statement urged the Democratic platform committee to “take a stand” against the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiated by President Obama, a deal Sanders called ‘disastrous’. Say what you want about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israelis do not execute people for homosexuality.
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Over the weekend, the Democratic National Committee began drafting the party’s official policy platform, which will be rolled out next month at the organization’s national convention in Philadelphia. “I don’t think he’d be that bad of a president, to be honest”. It appears that Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will pounce on her reversal when he delivers a speech on trade policy Tuesday afternoon. By the time Sanders grew comfortable campaigning in black churches, Clinton had opened up a wide delegate lead that made it virtually impossible for Sanders to catch up, given the Democratic Party’s proportional allocation of delegates.
Get ready for the inevitable Sanders filibuster (circa 2010’s Bush-tax cut extension barn burner) the moment President Clinton signals openness to “tweaking”-aka cutting-Social Security”. Electing Democrats in swing districts would help Sanders achieve his agenda more surely than anything else he could do, even if the kind of Democrat who can win a swing district might not meet the ideological purity tests of the left.
NPR points out on May 24 that Bernie Sanders’ campaign asked for a recanvass of Kentucky after election/voter fraud was suspected and sent a request to Kentucky’s Secretary of State to check “all of the voting machines and absentee ballots in all each of the state’s counties to verify the accuracy of the vote totals”.
Making an appearance in OH along with Senator Elizabeth Warren, Ms. Clinton held forth on her strong anti-trade positions on Monday.
Clinton ticked off a list of items that GOP congressional leaders have refused to schedule for a vote.
One wishes that he could also encourage Clinton to moderate her rhetoric on abortion, which does not sit well with the more traditional values of many small-town voters.
The video takes place at a rally and a speaker states the following to a crowd of Bernie Sanders supporters.
Sanders said that his delegates were not wealthy enough to afford to stay in expensive Philadelphia.
Sanders has accomplished a great deal, and he can yet achieve more. After all, Clinton will presumably be the very first female major party nominee.
Clinton also contrasted Republicans in Congress with the mayors in the audience.
Democrat Sherrod Brown, the OH senator who has been mentioned as a potential running mate for Clinton, will join Leo Gerard, the global president of the United Steelworkers, on a conference call with reporters Tuesday to talk about Trump’s record of “profiting from outsourcing and overseas labor”.
Tasini said there is “great danger for the Democratic party” in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and even upstate NY. Obama is expected to join Clinton on the campaign trail soon. On Friday afternoon, at the final candidate debate before the primary, journalists at NewsChannel9 started their questions with one about Sanders and party loyalty.
The distinction may seem semantic, but Sanders die-hards say they’ll continue to try to force the party’s hand on the issue.
“I’ll leave that to the American people to decide”.
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“I found it intriguing that, when they were describing the language, they were saying they were opposing the BDS movement only to the extent that it was delegitimizing Israel”, Zogby said. I care just as deeply about income inequality and getting money out of politics as you do, she croons. “I know it’s all about you”, Trump said Wednesday. I did make it clear that their behavior would not be excused.
