Meanwhile, this will not be the last we – or Democratic leadership – hear from Bernie Sanders. Clinton said that as president she would urge white Americans to gain a better understanding of the anxiety many blacks feel in dealing with law enforcement.
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“No, it’s not about the lesser of two evils”, Sanders said before listing a number of issues, including minimum wage, college affordability and health care, where he said his formal rival would help working families.
With your help, were joining forces to defeat Donald Trump, win in November and build a future we can all believe in, Clinton said.
Sorry, folks, but Hillary Clinton isn’t picking Elizabeth Warren as her vice president.
“Jobs can solve so many problems”, Trump said this week in an interview with The Associated Press.
Clinton is struggling to make inroads among young Americans who overwhelmingly supported Bernie Sanders during the Democratic presidential primary, a worrisome sign as she tries to reassemble the coalition that twice propelled Barack Obama into the White House.
“It raises a level of skepticism that the American people have from time to time about just how objective the Supreme Court is, whether they’re over there to call the balls and strikes, or weigh in on one side or another”, he said. And there’s nothing about this campaign that suggests Democrats would be open to much cooperation with President Trump. She said Sanders has “brought people off the sidelines and into the political process”. “So I think that we’re going to be enthusiastic in our support for Hillary Clinton as we should be”. I am proud to be fighting alongside you because, my friends, this is a time for all of us to stand together..
Endorsement, such as it was, in hand, the Clinton campaign will have to decide now whether to ignore Sanders or to risk embarrassment by wheeling him out now and again to try and kindle some enthusiasm for her lackluster candidacy among his disappointed former backers, something that will inevitably be a pathetic failure.
Bernie Sanders took that movement’s legacy and ran with it, literally, taking the country by storm and winning 22 states’ primaries along the way – and he probably would have won and maybe did win more had elections and counting been fairer (a month after that state’s primary was held they were still counting ballots in California!).
He listed the many reasons he was endorsing her, seeking to reassure his followers that Clinton understood the issues of economic justice that were the foundation of his campaign.
“Clinton beat him decisively, but he still did a lot better than he would have expected”, said Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. For months, he slammed Clinton’s Senate vote in favor of the catastrophic war in Iraq, and demanded she reveal the content of wallet-fattening speeches she gave to such Wall Street bogeymen as Goldman Sachs after she left the State Department. “That’s what Sanders was running against”, he said, “the corporate takeover of the Democratic Party”.
“I think competition is good”, he said. He also began his address by pointing out the numerous delegates and millions of votes he got during the primary season, before eventually getting around to endorsing Clinton. But his support for trade deals might anger progressives who backed Sanders in the primary. And although we know that such divisions are not new – though they have surely been worse in even the recent past – that offers us little comfort.
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Party officials met over the weekend in Orlando, Florida to finalize the Democratic platform, which they described as the most ambitious and progressive yet in history.
