Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders highlighted his support for a single-payer health-care system – a position that separates him from his rivals for the Democratic nomination – during a Thursday rally on Capitol Hill celebrating the 50th anniversary of Medicare. The gathering included people from a wide range of age groups and from both political parties.
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Like others interviewed here, Steele said Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton is far better-known by African Americans and is well-respected. He has built his campaign on the slogan ‘Enough is Enough, ‘ citing the need for extensive social and economic reforms.
“This is a huge issue”, Sanders, a Senator from Vermont, said.
Sanders’ unexpectedly strong showing has not gone unnoticed by Clinton’s team.
Sandberg called on the viewers, the true believers and dogged Sanders supporters to coordinate their volunteer efforts and help get the candidate’s message out.
According to media reports and speeches from Sanders, he has raised $15 million from what Sanders said came from 135,000 individual citizen across the nation, rejecting contributions from Wall Street bankers and operatives like conservative donors Charles and David Koch, who have promised billions of dollars in the 2016 election. He says if he does, it wonít just be to nudge the debate to the left.
“I think Hilary is a decent politician, but I don’t think she is right for right now”. In a new CNN poll on Sunday, 24 percent of registered voters had a favorable view of Sanders.
“We have to elect Bernie Sanders because we have to take our democracy back”, she said.
The Senator focused on his key talking points of jobs, income inequality and affordable education. “And anyone who’s been in debt knows how hard it is to get out of it, especially when you’re looking at compounding interest”. But30 percent of Republicans also said they definitely would not support him, the most of any candidate in the poll. The age range really impressed me.
So are all those people wasting their time?
Jake Pruett was among those in attendance. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at the 2015 worldwide Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers (SMART) Conference. “I’d like to see it be 500,000”, said Marilyn Valentini.
It is hard for me to understand how one can be concerned about climate change but not vigorously oppose the Keystone pipeline. “We will win”, Sanders said enthusiastically. “I thought we’d maybe have 20, 30 people here”, he told the crowd, laughing.
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Voters are “tired of the same old thing”, he said. “In retrospect, we realized that the only way we can proceed is that progressive forces are united behind the bill”.
