The Post reporters said the energy was reminiscent of Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, or the 2004 “Sleepless Summer” tour of Howard Dean.
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This is the second time that Black Lives Matter activists have disrupted a Sanders event.
He said, “Sen. Sanders has been portrayed initially as not in the main stream of presidential candidates”.
One issue that still needs to be addressed in Charleston is security, which has been lax for Sanders so far.
The outspoken GOP candidate did say he would never allow BLM activists to storm his stage, commandeer his microphone, and bully him into the background; and that yes indeed, there might be fighting involved if they tried to hijack a Donald Trump campaign event.
“I’m very proud of them and any young person that’s willing to speak truth to power, with the right guidance”, said Khalif Muhammad, who watched Sunday’s march from a bus stop. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., shakes hands with nurses before speaking at the National Nurses United office, Monday, August 10, 2015, in Oakland, Calif.
“I was especially disappointed because on criminal justice reform and the need to fight racism there is no other candidate for president who will fight harder than me”, the statement read. He also said the Black Lives Matter tactics in Seattle were disconcerting, “especially since he (Sanders) has a history of working with black groups on civil rights issues”. Sanders in the end left the Saturday evening occasion at Seattle’s Westlake Park without giving his discourse. The rally had initially been scheduled at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, which has a capability of about 12,000, however was moved in anticipation of huge crowds.
On Saturday, protesters from Black Lives Matter took over a microphone at a Sanders event in Seattle and forced him to abandon an afternoon speech. We are talking about a reality in which nearly all of the wealth and income in this country is going to the top 1 percent.
Later that evening, Sanders responded to this criticism.
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DeMoro would not disclose the internal polling numbers but said the three recent surveys represented a “pretty significant sampling” of the union’s members and she was “stunned at the level and depth of enthusiasm for Bernie“. “As Bernie Sanders continues surging in the polls and Hillary Clinton’s trustworthy numbers plummet, it’s no surprise that more and more Democrats are excited for an alternative to Clinton and her scandal-plagued candidacy”, Republican National Committee spokesman Ninio Fetalvo said Monday.
