This marks the second time the campaign has decided to switch locations in order to accommodate the flood of RSVPs. No one can deny that the shockingly large attendance numbers at Sanders’s campaign stops are indicative of a voting base that has been waiting for a far left candidate to enter the picture.
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The Trump event took place in the 45,600 square foot North Building Ballroom, which can hold a maximum of 4,200 people.
“In New Hampshire we prepared for a competitive race from the outset, of course we expect Senator Sanders to be on the ballot”, said Harrell Kirstein, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign in New Hampshire.
The Federal Election Commission released the financial disclosure forms of Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders on Thursday, and we learned one thing we already knew: They’re not Clintons. Competing campaigns have little to gain if they’re seen challenging his right to be a Democratic candidate.
“[I]f I had the magical solution to that problem, I would be in the president’s office today giving it. I don’t have it”, Sanders told Salon in June. “What I have said throughout this campaign is electing Bernie Sanders as president is not enough”.
Naturally, Hillary will try to cannibalize the Sanders message without diminishing her appeal to more conservative voters and, crucially, with Bush going hog wild under the Citizens United decision, funders. Declaring racism a “stain on human existence”, he invoked Pope Francis, who recently asked forgiveness for the church’s transgressions against native people during America’s conquest. His kickoff rally on the banks of Lake Champlain in Burlington featured testimonials from a series of white speakers, including the local ice cream makers behind Ben & Jerry’s, and made no mention of issues like gun control and racial inequality.
He seems to be as much of a pull no punches guy as Donald Trump, only Bernie offers sensible solutions compared to Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip pronouncements.
“Any guy or gal could come off street and do it, the question is then would they have the standing to do it”, said Brad Cook, the chair of the bipartisan commission.
Could Hillary Clinton really be in trouble in the Democratic presidential primaries against a self-described socialist senator from tiny Vermont? And there were no radical new proposals aimed at reversing America’s long slide into wage stagnation.
Moving on to energy, Sanders said he has “helped lead the opposition to the Keystone pipeline”.
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The candidates, though prepared to talk economics and reform, were also eager to relate to the rooms full of Hispanics: Sanders discussed his Polish ancestry and the family members he lost to the Holocaust.
