“I myself will be voting for the Green Party candidate come November, if I don’t have the opportunity to vote for Bernie Sanders”, one man told euronews.
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US President Barack Obama formally endorsed fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton for president on Thursday, describing himself as eager to get out and campaign for her, days after she gained the delegates needed to secure the party’s White House nomination.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren met with Hilary Clinton at her Washington home Friday, further fueling speculation that the presumptive Democratic nominee will choose the MA politico as her running mate.
Earlier today, Trump, grand master of Twitter tirades, took both Clinton and President Obama to task in his customary, confrontational manner.
“I am with her”. And flipping superdelegates – party officials and insiders who get a vote on the convention floor – is likely off the table after Obama’s endorsement, as Democrats are unlikely to deviate from the leader of the party set. The two women did have a top secret meeting with Clinton Friday morning, which means an announcement about being the vice president has to be in the works. Not only would it be historic, because whatever, but Warren kind of makes up for all of Clinton’s faults in that she appeals to the super progressive Sanders supporters who think banks rule the world (which they sort of do).
In a speech on Thursday, Warren, who the real estate magnate has nicknamed “Pocahontas” because of her claimed native American heritage, castigated Trump as a “thin-skinned, racist bully”.
“I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office”, Obama said of Clinton in a video. Included in the crowd were Univsion chief Haim Saban, former US ambassador to Portugal during President Bill Clinton’s time in office, Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, venture capitalist Alan Patricof and longtime Clinton friend Susie Tompkins Buell. That made her the first woman to lead a major USA party as its White House candidate.
“Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary”.
Speaking to the political arm of the national reproductive health and advocacy organization Planned Parenthood, Clinton placed herself in stark contrast to her Republican rival Donald Trump, whom she portrayed as a sexist enemy of women’s rights.
Trump, a wealthy real estate developer who became the party’s presumptive nominee last month after seeing off a large group of rivals, is well behind Clinton’s campaign in terms of fundraising and policy infrastructure. By now, even with all the asterisks about reflected glory and fame by association, she has put enough points on the board to warrant credit of her own. “She’s got the courage, the compassion and the heart to get the job done”.
But she also said she deleted about 30,000 other emails that were of a personal nature and not related to her work as secretary of state.
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Like many women, many Democrats and (given their alternative) probably even some Republicans, I wish Clinton did not have so much baggage, so many self-inflicted wounds. I’m not hopeful because HIllary is so connected to money, her husband has his foundation, I don’t see any hope with her. …
