Elizabeth Warren of MA will be in OH this weekend to energize a voting block that presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has struggled to captivate: young people.
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Such poor numbers threaten her chances in key swing states.
Sanders, who lost the Democratic nomination to Clinton, is campaigning in Canton, Kent and Akron on Saturday.
Consider the margin in the last election: President Barack Obama beat his Republican rival by 24 percentage points among voters under 30.
“Either Hillary Clinton is going to become president or Donald Trump is going to become president”. Wang added that she hopes to improve outreach efforts to former Sanders supporters across campus in the coming weeks as well, with canvassing trips to New Hampshire and phone-banking into Nevada and Pennsylvania planned for the near future. Curtis ’19, vice president of the former Harvard Students United for Bernie student group, said all of the former members of his organization with whom he has recently spoken recently plan to vote for Clinton. Many Democrats blame Nader for that defeat, which Green supporters resent.
Devine said today’s young voters are “turned off by party politics” and are less inclined than unusual to support a major party candidate but predicted they’ll eventually move in her direction when they realize that “Hillary is the only game in town”. At one of the final rallies of the Sanders campaign, in California, Kate Tanaka said she’d always voted Green and would do so again if he wasn’t on the ballot. “You go issue by issue and I think you expose him for the fraud that he is”. Michael Heaney, a political sociologist at the University of MI, said Clinton doesn’t really need the money as much as she needs some of that “Bernie or Bust” enthusiasm to rub off on her.
Tanaka said some voters like her might act differently if they live in a crucial state.
Mary Andriotakis offered a similar view.
Clinton’s campaign says Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. But after nearly collapsing at a 9/11 memorial event in NY with what has been said to be a case of pneumonia, she clearly could use more of his help.
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Sanders had events scheduled in OH on Saturday, after a stop in Pennsylvania on Friday evening.
