Amid boos from the sidelines, allies of Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama on Saturday beat back an effort by the Bernie Sanders campaign to have the Democratic Party officially oppose a congressional vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
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The result: Sanders is pleased enough with the platform, three Democratic sources said, that he has committed to a joint event with Clinton Tuesday in New Hampshire and is prepared to endorse her.
Clinton announced Saturday that she will hold an event in New Hampshire on Tuesday, but at this point there was no mention of a guest.
If the senator doesn’t get his way, it’s not just his endorsement of Clinton that’s on the line. They are waiting to see whether she continues to support his core issues, such as reining in big banks, as well as if she will continue to move left on
issues such as raising
the minimum wage to $15.
“It’s fair to say that the Clinton campaign and I are coming closer and closer together”, Sanders said.
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But on the ground, Sanders’ most ardent supporters were angered by votes against amendments that would have called for the removal of the cap on taxable income to fund Social Security, opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, and condemned Israel’s “occupation and illegal settlements” of Palestine. He has won a number of concessions, including a win Friday with an amendment calling for increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 over time, indexed to inflation. She later revived her support for a public option, adding a provision to the health-care proposal on her website, saying she would work with “interested governors” to offer their constituents an opportunity to buy into a government-run program under “current flexibility” provided by the Affordable Care Act. “If you go through rural America, those of us who voted for Bernie Sanders in a primary – a hell of a lot more than 15 percent of us are going to vote for Trump”.
Bernie Sanders could make the 2016 presidential contest even more exciting by turning it into a legitimate three-way race.
He has indicated that he would hold off on endorsing Clinton for the November 8 general election fight against Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump until she adopted policies and campaign language that more closely resembled his own more liberal tone.
Clinton has been open to his efforts, and would benefit from an endorsement by her Democratic challenger.
“We look forward to continuing working with the Clinton campaign and will have more to say in the very near future”.
Because Clinton is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, the Vermont senator has aggressively campaigned to include his progressive policies in the party platform.
Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez, a Hillary Clinton supporter, dodged a question from Fox News’ Shannon Bream on Sunday as to whether Sen.
Before the vote, Dr. Cornel West urged the passage of the amendment, to roaring applause and a standing ovation from Sanders supporters.
Representatives from both candidates have been hammering out planks for the Democratic platform, which will be formally adopted at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia at the end of July.
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On energy, Sanders didn’t get the call for a national fracking ban that he wanted, but he did get Clinton’s camp to embrace the stance that “greenhouse gases should be priced to reflect their negative externalities, and to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy and help meet our climate goals” – which sounds similar to the carbon tax that Sanders has supported.
