“Really? This is the guy you want to be championing working people?”
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The ground game is equally important to Clinton in other swing states, including Pennsylvania, where she herself will visit Philadelphia on Monday.
Bernie Sanders has been declaring two wars in mid-September, and Jay Z started one of them. Just as it seemed she might be getting past the latest hubbub over her emails, she told backers at a fundraiser that half of Trump’s supporters fit into a “basket of deplorables”.
At a rally for Democratic congressional candidate, Zephyr Teachout in New Paltz, New York on Friday, the Vermont senator advised voters not to vote for a third-party candidate for president and to remain focused on stopping Donald Trump.
He also commented on the “birther” controversy about whether President Barack Obama was born in the U.S. He posted a clip of that discussion on his Twitter account.
“Before you cast a protest vote – because either Clinton or Trump will become president-think hard about it. Think about what the country looks like and whether you’re comfortable with four years of a Trump presidency”, Sanders said.
At that time, Jill Stein had three percent of the polls and 90 percent of Bernie Sanders supporters were saying they would support Hillary Clinton.
Asked by MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough for his insights into the younger generation’s aversion to Clinton, Sanders professed ignorance.
“Essentially, it’s my view that the leadership of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are tied to big-money interests and that neither of these parties will ever represent the people in this country that are demanding the real changes that have to take place”, he said. “That is pretty damn good”. “During the final phase of the election, our campaign will deploy high profile surrogates to uplift Secretary Clinton’s message to the generation and mobilize millennial voters to get to the polls”. That compares to 37 percent for Clinton, and just 17 percent for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Ordinarily, this would be a tough election for any Democratic candidate to win. President Obama temporarily halted work on the project following the recent protests against it.
It’s something Al Gore could attest to.
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The remarks were made one day after new polling found that roughly a third of likely voters aged 18-29 are considering voting for a third party candidate. In the 2000 general election, many blamed Green Party candidate Ralph Nader for spoiling Gore’s candidacy. How many of them are gonna go to jail?
