“He is definitely looking out for the common man”, Bajaj said. On Wednesday, he was named to a leadership post in the Senate – chair of outreach – and was reappointed ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Thursday morning at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, D.C.
When asked about the comments he made the previous night, particularly if he could have, like Trump, won the ‘Rust Belt, ‘ he barked back and pointed at the ‘corporate media’.
One of the burning – though unanswerable – questions is whether Sanders could have defeated Mr. Trump in the general election.
“I know that he represents what I want”.
“This is definitely the most interest we’ve received in years”, said Teddy Kupfer, a Hopkins senior and lecture organizer, to the Baltimore Sun.
Charles Schumer of NY will take over as Senate Democratic leader in the next Congress, while Vermont’s Bernie Sanders is getting a key role on the Senate Budget Committee.
Since Donald Trump made waves over the weekend by appointing a known racist, anti-Semite, and white nationalist to his team, many have spoken out against the appointment. “Trump’s views are a minority”, Sanders explained, citing policies from his own platform that do not align with the President-elect’s. ‘California is ignored politically.
“In nearly every instance, we got a strong majority of young people voting for the agenda that I brought forth”, he said.
Speaking in the animated fashion that brought him surprising success in his bid to win the Democratic nomination, Sanders identified trade as another area of cooperation.
I happen to believe that the federal minimum wage … is a starvation wage, and that it should be raised to $15 dollars an hour, a living wage. “When you lose two-thirds of state governors” chairs in this country.
As the Democrats were still sad from the losses of last week’s poll and desperately try to figure out how to regroup and energized the party now that Republicans control the White House, the Senate, and the House Mr. Sanders gave encouragement urging them to push forward.
Americans are better off today than they were eight years ago before President Barack Obama took office, Sen. “I will finish this term as an independent”, he said.
Like Sanders, Trump ran on a populist, anti-establishment message.
Discussing his new book Our Revolution – A Future to Believe In at the George Washington University, Mr. Sanders rejected the suggestion that the prolonged primary contest in which he accused Ms. Clinton of corruption weakened her in the contest against Mr. Trump. Earlier in the day, Sanders called Bannon’s appointment “totally unacceptable”.
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Sanders said his candidacy also engaged millions of young people who hadn’t been involved in politics before. Sanders said. “Frankly, we are not going to agree on every issue, but her voice is important to be heard”. Sanders said he is watching to see if Trump stays true to his word not to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
