Sometime between 8 and 9PM Wednesday night during a campaign event in Los Angeles, Bernie Sanders, standing at the podium with his supporters, made the official announcement to huge cheers from the crowd.
“Just as a result of last night’s debate, I’m told that we raised $2 million dollars!”
Sander’s campaign later pointed out that the contributions poured in, the average donation being around $30.
Tuesday night was the first time the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination met face to face in a debate, and Hillary Clinton did not waste any time attacking her Democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders. Her weapon of choice, his not-so-stella record on guns.
“We have to look at the fact that we lose 90 people a day from gun violence,” Clinton said. “It’s time the entire country stood up to the [National Rifle Association].”
Sanders repeatedly pointed out that he holds a D-minus rating from the National Rifle Association, and argued that it was necessary to bridge the cultural divide between urban and rural America when it comes to common-sense gun reform.
But the self-described Democratic socialist could not escape heated criticism for voting against the Brady Act, which mandated federal background checks on firearm purchases, and supporting a federal bill that would have shielded gun shops from crushing lawsuits. Sanders said that it was “a large and complicated bill,” with some provisions that he liked, and some he didn’t.
“It was pretty straightforward to me,” Clinton countered. She voted against it.
Tuesday’s debate comes less than two weeks after a lone gunman opened fire on a community college campus in Roseburg, Oregon, killing nine people before taking his own life. Shortly after the shooting, President Obama delivered an emotional address that spotlighted the nation’s shortcomings in keeping guns out of dangerous hands.
The first Democratic presidential debate will be held on CNN on Tuesday. Today the network released the candidate’s standing order based on poll results since August 1st.
Standing at center stage will be Hillary Clinton with Bernie Sanders to her immediate right. To the right of Sanders will be Jim Webb.
On Clinton’s left will be Martin O’Malley and to his left, Lincoln Chafee.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, spoke to a group of 10,000 people in Tucson Arizona. Saunders, who has been criticized by some as being weak on gun control, spoke in favor of background checks and other measures that can possibly cut down on the frequency of mass shootings in this country.
“We are tired of condolences and we are tired of just prayers. We are tired and we are embarrassed in picking up the paper or turning on the TV and seeing children in elementary schools slaughtered and young people on college campuses shot.
I think the vast majority of the American people want us to move forward in sensible ways that keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them and cut down on these senseless murders that we see every week.”
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This is definitely good news for the Bernie camp. They must be happy with this news.
According to a new report, Bernie Sanders has raised just about the same amount of money mostly from small donors, as Hillary Clinton has, and the bulk of her donor-base is coming from a few large donors and Superpacs.
The Vermont senator’s campaign says he has raised about $26 million for his presidential campaign in the past three months. Coming mostly from small donations given online, the sum underscores the draw of his insurgent campaign among the grassroots of the Democratic Party.
Clinton’s campaign, in its own announcement Wednesday, said she had taken in $28 million. Most of it came from fundraisers hosted by big donors across the country. Many took place in the traditionally Democratic treasure chests of Manhattan and Hollywood. She raised at least $19 million from about 60 events where admission typically cost $2,700, the biggest donation allowed by law.
The Sanders campaign has held just seven traditional fundraisers since launching at the end of April, said Sanders campaign spokesman Michael Briggs, compared to a total of more than 110 for Clinton over the same period.
During a meeting with Muscatine County Boxing Club in Iowa on Friday, Bernie Sanders called out Donald Trump by name, saying that Trump is attacking immigrants and Latinos “as a whipping boy to try and deflect attention from the real issues facing America.”
Sanders listed numerous issues facing this country that should be debated but are not. “You would think there would be an honest political discussion,” Bernie said. “How do we address those issues? But what certain candidates like Trump are trying to do, is to say to Americans, ‘we have problems but you know who the cause of all the problems is, it’s the immigrants!'”
Sanders then cautioned, “let us not blame undocumented people in this country for all of those problem. That is absurd, racist and wrong!”
With so much of the interesting political maneuvering happening on the right, we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that there will be Democratic debates in the fall, and they could be just as interesting as the Republican candidate-a-thons.
While Hillary Clinton still leads in every match-up with one or the other GOP candidate, she’s being pressed by Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire. Bernie’s doing his best to electrify the base with his talk about tighter government control of banks and higher wages and corporate child care centers and things that the US should already have but doesn’t because the right believes that Americans feel better by earning these things individually and that if you can’t afford them then it’s your fault. Sucker. And now Joe Biden is thinking about a run. He would most likely be a very good president if he could get beyond the verbal improvisations that have haunted him in campaigns past. Yes, there are other candidates running–Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee–but they are having a difficult time breaking through a national media that can only handle a few at a time.
In a twist, this election could see the Democrats painted as the older party, with Hillary, Bernie and Joe all much older than their Republican counterparts. In addition, there’s a bit of a rift going through the left as the Warren-Sanders far left-wing battles with the establishment, more centrist views of the Hillary, and perhaps Biden, wing. There’s been so much attention over the past few years about the yawning divide on the right, that a leftish split is certainly news and could be a potential problem unless the party unites in time for the convention, and that’s pretty much what I would expect to happen.
Hillary’s e-mails are making people nervous and the right will shout Benghazi whenever they get the chance, but on the main issues she seems to have most of the country on her side. Her recent confrontation with Black Lives Matter activists shows her empathetic and realistic, and her contrasting views with Republicans on marriage equality, gender equality, wages, education, climate change and foreign policy experience show her more forward-looking than any of the Republicans who only seem to be able to run negative campaigns.
Democrats need to be careful about being overconfident based on the Obama electoral map, with Ohio, Florida, Nevada and Colorado possibly presenting some serious challenges. Overall, though, demographics do provide the party with an advantage the Republicans will find difficult to overcome.
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He considers himself a Libertarian, but Brady Olson, the 15-year-old from Willingford Iowa responsible for the surging Deez Nuts for President campaign, is not endorsing the self-proclaimed Libertarian in the race. Instead of giving Rand Paul the nod, Deez Nuts is throwing his weight behind one Democrat and one Republican – Bernie Sanders and John Kasich.
In regards to Bernie Sanders, Deez Nuts told These Times that he endorsed the Democratic Senator because “he almost completely agrees on me with social issues and even some on fiscal issues.” Nuts also tweeted his endorsement.
He has commanded the crowds as huge numbers show up at his campaign events and now Bernie Sanders, the Democratic candidate running for president in 2016, has taken the lead away from Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire.
A new poll shows Bernie Sanders with an apparent lead over Hillary Rodham Clinton among likely Democratic voters in New Hampshire, adding to his momentum in the nation’s first presidential primary state.
Sanders, the independent senator from neighboring Vermont, tops Clinton, the former secretary of state, 44 percent to 37 percent, in the new Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll.
The survey, taken Aug. 7-10, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.7 percent, meaning Sanders’s lead is not considered statistically significant by pollsters.
His events have become a favorite hangout spot for Black Lives Matter protesters, so Bernie Sanders finally addressed the concerns of the movement, vowing to fight racism if he becomes president in 2016. Speaking in front of a packed Los Angeles arena, Sanders attempted to address the concerns of the group.
“There is no president that will fight harder to end institutional racism,” said Sanders, who was answered with a deafening roar and chants of “Bernie” from a packed Los Angeles Sports Arena, whose usual capacity is about 16,000 people.
The rally began taking on the issue head-on as Symone Sanders — Bernie Sanders’ new national press secretary who is not related to the candidate — opened the program and talked at length about racial injustice.
Symone Sanders is a black criminal justice advocate and a strong supporter of Black Lives Matter movement, and said Sanders was the candidate to fight for its values.
“It is very important that we say the words ‘black lives matter,’ Symone Sanders said. “But it’s also important to have people in political office who are going to turn those words into action. No candidate for president is going to fight harder for criminal justice reform and racial justice issues than Senator Bernie Sanders.”
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.
Well chalk another one up for Bernie Sanders. The Washington Post is reporting that Bernie has scored a major endorsement from the National Nurses Union, which essentially means that Hillary Clinton did not get their endorsement… essentially!
National Nurses United, which represents 185,000 nurses across the country, announced its pick at an event in Oakland attend by Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who has emerged as Hillary Rodham Clinton’s chief rival for the Democratic nomination.
“He can talk about our issues as well as we can talk about our issues,” RoseAnn DeMoro, the union’s executive director, said in an interview, adding that “Bernie’s issues align with nurses from top to bottom.”
The endorsement was the first for Sanders from a national labor group. Last month, the American Federation of Teachers announced its support for Clinton, calling her “the champion working families need in the White House.”
The presidential election is in full swing and tonight, the best the Republicans have to offer will strut their stuff on a stage provided by Fox News. It should be a spectacle. But Democratic candidate for president, Bernie Sanders, is making a pretty good guess as to what will happen when the repubs take the stage – appeasing the rich.
“When you watch that debate just imagine if you are one of the wealthiest people in this country and extremely greedy and selfish, and you’re going to have 10 candidates more or less talking about your needs and not the needs of working people,” Sanders said in a recorded interview with Ari Rabin-Havt on SiriusXM’s Progress Channel.
Sanders continued; “They want to give more tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires at a time when the rich are getting much richer,” Sanders said. “They want to cut or privatize Medicare, cut Medicaid, cut education, cut the environmental protection agency.”
I must say, I do believe Sanders is correct. The party of the rich is only interested in one thing, and that is finding ways to give more to the rich. And that has nothing to do with the poor or middle class. The sad thing is the poor and middle class are the ones who putting these people in office.
