Winning support from the Transport Workers Union Local 100, which represents 42,000 workers in the New York region, according to the New York Daily News, is a big deal for Sanders. But as we look toward the next administration, there is far more work to do. “He understands that what he’s asking is a big paradigm shift from us, the voters, and I think voters are ready for that”, retired teacher John Nichols said.
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Clinton has captured the endorsements of most Senate Democrats but Merkley announced his support of Sanders, telling MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the senator had “been out there leading, clearly long before he chose to run”.
“It is time to recommit ourselves to that vision of a country that measures our nation’s success not at the boardroom table, but at kitchen tables across America”, wrote Merkley, the junior USA senator from Oregon.
Given the above, it’s fair to say come November the majority of Americans will begrudgingly head to the booths in a classic case of rooting for the lesser of two evils.
It is not that America is less wealthy than 40 years ago – quite the contrary. “I could make it sound more complicated than that, but that’s really what it is”.
According to the polling institute, Democratic presidential nominees have carried MA by margins of 23-27 percentage points in each cycle since 2000.
For months now, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have engaged in a back-and-forth battle over immigration.
“But his leadership on these issues and his willingness to fearlessly stand up to the powers that be have galvanized a grass-roots movement”, the Oregon Democrat wrote.
“The one place where people may want to reconsider is states where Bernie had really huge victories, ” Tad Devine, chief strategist for the Sanders campaign said, citing Washington, Minnesota and Alaska among other states.
After winning the Democratic caucuses in Wyoming on Saturday, Sanders has now won seven of the past eight state contests.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton appear to have a lock on their parties’ respective presidential primaries in NY.
The endorsement responds negatively to Bernie Sanders’s promises-to end income inequality, providing free public college tuition and taxing Wall Street – as unrealistic.
Warren, in particular, would be a high-profile surrogate for either campaign.
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For economic justice, racial justice, militarism, reducing money in politics, and fighting climate change, a Hillary Clinton presidency offers, at best, no progress, and at worst, war with Iran, escalation in Syria, deepened influence of corporate money on all political decisions, and another financial catastrophe from an essentially unregulated Wall Street.
