“I have no doubt that with the energy and enthusiasm our campaign has shown that we can win significant numbers of local and state elections if people are prepared to become involved”, Sanders said.
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He added that “when I am president, it will always be America first”.
“What kind of an America do we want to be?”
But the meeting Tuesday night was widely seen as the first step to begin the process of reuniting their respective factions of the party against “the risky threat that [presumptive GOP nominee] Donald Trump poses to our nation”.
The statement notes that the Obama administration’s “hasty and politically-driven” withdrawal from Iraq and “failure to secure Libya” created a vacuum for the Islamic State group to thrive.
At Sanders’ final rally in Washington on Thursday, supporters chanted “Thank you, Bernie”, and some called for him to stay in the race.
Trump, speaking in Atlanta today, responded to Obama’s speech, saying it was long – and that by the end of it, “nobody knew what the hell he was talking about”.
“The Republican Party has to be tough and smart”, he said. They say Trump’s views on worldwide affairs are inconsistent and would make the country less safe.
The key difference: African-Americans sided overwhelmingly with the victor of 2008 and 2016 nominations, with Black voters across the South and in heavily Democratic cities fueling key wins and delegate advantages in the drawn-out primary contests. Boarding the “Clinton train” this year, he said, is a bigger step for the independents and young people who are a key part of Sanders’ coalition.
Warren threw her support endorsed behind Clinton last week as the former secretary of state moved her sights from the nominating contest toward a November 8 match-up against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
To change that math, Trump needs to break through in one of the 19 states that have voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1992.
“Nobody thought we were going anywhere”, he said in a web address Thursday night from Burlington, Vermont.
“What Bernie is doing is having a very positive impact”, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said. He also was briefed on the investigation into the Orlando nightclub shooting.
Instead, Sanders told supporters that he’d continue fighting for raising the federal minimum wage, equal pay, banning assault weapons, defeating the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and other issues that had been at the center of his maverick campaign. But Obama then trounced Clinton in SC by a 2-to-1 margin. Democrats were Clinton’s core supporters in 2008.
And yes, I do hope and expect that the Democratic platform will make a clear and compelling statement about the progressive vision and agenda of the party.
The Washington Post first reported the incident.
But before Trump tries to expand the electoral map, he must make sure he can protect the safely Republican states the 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney won.
Ryan told reporters at a news conference Tuesday that there should be a security test, not a religious test. “Clinton wants to allow radical Islamic terrorists to pour into our country-they enslave women, and murder gays”.
I’d like to see him just keep doing whatever he’s been doing for the past 30 years.
Donald Trump will meet with House Republicans on July 7.
Trump was introduced by Florida’s top Republicans, Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
The aide spoken on condition of anonymity to freely discuss the schedule.
Trump will need to turn out white voters in the Upper Midwest in numbers that far exceed those in past presidential elections.
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Armitage refused to confirm his support for Clinton to the Associated Press.
