Bernie Sanders all but said he agrees with Donald Trump that money in politics is a problem on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday, telling host John Dickerson billionaires pouring money into campaigns “is a disaster for democracy”. So he doesn’t see much point in holding off on endorsements until candidates make the right promises: “I don’t know that that worked out so well, those commitments”.
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This summer, when Hillary Clinton wouldn’t take up that cause, he decided to back Bernie Sanders.
The former secretary of state’s new posture, according to the Post, has included “almost daily attacks on the better-known contenders among the wide Republican field”, the “surprise release of her health and tax information late last month on the same day as a very public airing – in the home state of [former Florida Gov. Jeb] Bush and Sen”.
Sanders said he has known Hillary for “25 years” and that he admires, respects, and likes her, but “she and I have very different points of view on a number of issues”.
“The last seven or eight years has just hardened me up and told me you can’t play the game”, says Amalgamated Transit Union president Larry Hanley, who endorsed Clinton in the 2008 primary. “Of course, they want something”, Sanders said.
Instead, we have a new expanding industry that will grow the economy and create jobs for people who want them and services for people who will use them and the Democrats are chomping at the bit to regulate them off the earth. “The logical outcome is that the only people who can run for office in America, who don’t have to curry favors are billionaires themselves”. “Can we actually prevail over a billionaire or the billionaire class?” he asked. “I think that’s why Bernie’s getting the traction he has”. You know what the average contribution is 31 bucks. We’re running a campaign… That’s more than double the support of his closest rivals in the Beehive State. “We’re shutting this event down – now”, one activist said. The complaint says the piece “implies not only that there is now no Democrat offering a serious challenge to Clinton for the 2016 presidential nomination, but that if there was to be one, it would be Joe Biden”.
When Sanders was asked about the Democratic debate schedule, which was announced this week, he said he’s “not really” satisfied with the way they are arranged.
Sanders’ Los Angeles rally comes on the heels of a weekend swing through Seattle and Portland, Ore., in deeply blue states that have not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1984.
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This campaign season, with more than 20 declared candidates so far, is already an unusual one, and the upshot seems to be that not every story may get told with the timeliness or thoroughness that every candidate’s supporter would like to see.
