Reiterating why he thinks it is crucial for the future of the country, as well as the planet, that Republican nominee Donald Trump not be elected USA president, former Democratic candidate Sen.
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Sanders’s evolution on the two-party system is three decades in the making.
While most of those responding said the health of a candidate for president is an important issue, Democrats still wanted everyone to stop talking about Hillary’s health. 36 percent said Sanders should replace Hillary, 20 percent said Joe Biden should get the nod and 14 percent said it should go to Kaine.
Meanwhile, new polls show the race for president is getting very dicey in all-important OH, the state that can make or break a candidate’s run for the White House. OH has a long history of voting for the next President of the United States.
Progressive heroes Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are both headed to OH this weekend to anchor organizing events for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Hillary For America announced this morning.
Since then, Sanders has tucked his endorsement later in his speeches, after rundowns of exactly what concessions his campaign got from the Democratic Party, and what a Trump presidency would undo.
But it’s one thing for an independent to support a major-party candidate out of pragmatism; it’s another to label a ballot cast for a fellow non-major party candidate a “protest vote”. Meyers asked Sanders what he would tell his supporters now.
The strategist, who worked on Al Gore’s 2000 campaign, recalled that “an bad lot” of young voters in states like Washington, Oregon and Wisconsin told pollsters they supported independent candidate Ralph Nader.
Yet some also said they’re thinking strategically.
“People want to vote for her”, said Woodley, “people just want to see that what she says is actually going to be followed through”.
Eli Campbell, 21, arrived at the rally with a photoshopped portrait of Trump and Clinton wearing crowns in front of the White House.
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Meanwhile, Sanders was the top choice of 48 percent of Democrats to replace Clinton if she were too sick to continue campaigning, in a new Rasmussen poll released yesterday. “We have to wait for it”. “You can disagree with Clinton on this or Trump on that, but we have come so far in this country in struggling against discrimination and racism and sexism”, he said. Sticking to the issues, rather than engaging Trump in a tit-for-tat exchange of insults, will reinforce her strengths over Trump, he said. “But I think the starting point is much stronger than people expected”.
