About 1,500 people came out to “feel the Bern” at a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks Thursday. “And that’s what we have to transform”. “But right now, we think the best path beyond is the one we laid out months ago”.
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Polls show Clinton is up in all five states, but Sanders has focused considerable time trying to cut into Clinton’s Pennsylvania lead, given that state is the most delegate rich on Tuesday.
The terror attacks on September 11, 2001, which killed almost 3,000 people, mainly in NY and Washington DC, left in their wake thousands of bereaved United States family members.
“I thought he was awesome”, Courtney said of Sanders. They argue it would be much better, for Sanders and for the party, if he were to fold up his campaign tent and back Clinton, uniting Democrats well ahead of the election.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump surged Sunday toward another round of pivotal presidential primaries as their party leaders faced new questions about internal divisions that could complicate their nominees’ general election chances. Republican turnout was measured at 17.3% of eligible voters, the highest since 1980. “All of our young people who have the ability and the desire are able to get a college education regardless of their income”, said Sanders.
For Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, the answer is yes.
“We can change the dynamics of American politics so it is not just big money interests that elect candidates”, he said, citing his strong support from young people and voters who are not affiliated with a party.
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“I can’t snap my finger and tell people what to do”, he said.
He also rejected calls for him to exit the race, including from David Plouffe, a former top adviser to Barack Obama and a currentClinton supporter.
Sanders said he is not counting himself out in the race for the nomination.
Sanders’ support among African Americans has been soft, but you wouldn’t know it at Friday’s rally. Is there a point of friction between that strategy that you’re describing state by state, also the superdelegate strategy that you guys have talked about for the convention, and the way he’s talked about how he wants to win?
And while that certainly sounds reasonable, on Tuesday, Sanders’ campaign manager said he already knows what to do: lobby superdelegates to overlook the pledged delegate results. “We’re not going to let it happen anymore”.
There are four other primary contests Tuesday – Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island are also choosing presidential candidates – and some have larger delegate prizes.
He criticized US trade agreements that he said encourage companies to send jobs overseas to take advantage of cheaper labor costs and then import products back into the U.S.to make billions in profits.
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“We’re going to fight this out until the last vote is cast, that’s what democracy is about”, he told CBS’s “Face the Nation“.
