Donald Trump has described her as “Pocahontas” in reference to reports that claims to have some distant Native American ancestry, and once listed herself as a minority in a directory maintained by the Association of American Law Schools.
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Sanders promised to vigorously oppose any policy which reflected the controversial and hateful rhetoric employed by Donald Trump during his election campaign. Democrats lost because they ignored the plight of workers and must address that to recover, Sanders said.
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As for his own political future and that of the Democratic Party, Mr. Sanders said he intends to officially remain an independent for the time being. Now, I believe we should expand Social Security … but that is what he said, and pay attention to see what he now does.
He said that Trump had successfully tapped into a very real and justified anger, an anger that many traditional Democrats feel.
In that spirit, he urged Trump to rescind his appointment of Stephen Bannon as one of his top aides, joining scores of Democratic officials who say the former head of Breitbart’s history of remarks disparaging minorities and appealing to white nationalists disqualifies him from a White House job.
He said of the Republican: “I think he has a got lot to learn, but I think he is smart”.
He said that the Democratic Party had failed to do that this election, and now it was time for them to do some “soul searching”. I think there is an area where there can not be compromise.
AMY GOODMAN: Across town at George Washington University, Senator Bernie Sanders also gave his first major address since the election.
Nonetheless, Sanders said he doubts Trump is a “hero of the working class America”, but he added, “I hope I’m wrong”.
“Tell Mr. Trump to read a little bit about science”, he said.
The Senator, who ran to the left of Clinton, said working class Americans were abandoning the Democrats.
“I’m happy to say my campaign brought millions of people into the political process, the vast majority of whom ended up voting for Hillary Clinton”. Sanders promised that he and other members of Congress will hold Trump to his words.
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Since then, Sanders has pointed out that Clinton won the popular vote, likely by 2 million votes and suggested the country should rid itself of the Electoral College, which put the White House in Republican Trump’s hands.
