UPDATE: Rev. Jesse Jackson endorses Hillary Rodham Clinton | Sen. Susan Collins doesn’t rule out voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton | Hillary Rodham Clinton to hit Donald Trump on women’s issues WASHINGTON — With pressure growing for him to quit the presidential race, a subdued Bernie Sanders emerged from a meeting with President Barack Obama on Thursday vowing to work […]
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Bernie Sanders lays off about half of campaign staff
Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign is downsizing as it reaches the final primary next week in Washington, D.C. About half of the staff is being laid off with most of the jobs involving field staff and advance aides. That’s according to two people familiar with the plans. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because they […]
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Dems to broker peace between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders
The competition between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders enters an urgent new phase Wednesday — a delicate minuet that Clinton and leading Democrats hope will soothe tensions and move their divided party toward enthusiastic unification behind the presumptive presidential nominee. If all goes well, the Democrats will arrive at their convention in Philadelphia in late […]
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Bernie Sanders supporters angry about delegate count
SAN FRANCISCO — Supporters of Bernie Sanders expressed outrage in the hours leading up to Tuesday’s primary elections, upset that The Associated Press and several television networks had already declared rival Hillary Clinton the party’s presumptive nominee. Clinton secured the commitments of enough delegates to win the party’s nomination on the eve of voting in […]
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Bernie needs a hard dose of reality
“You can’t always get what you want.” — The Rolling Stones A few words in defense of pragmatism. That ideal has taken quite a beating lately, mostly at the hands of Bernie Sanders and his supporters. The Vermont senator faces a virtually impossible deficit in his battle with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. […]
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Trump, Sanders move politics leftward
The upshot of the Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump phenomena is that both parties are moving to the left. Sanders’ and Trump’s styles and affects are very different — the rumpled, oddball lecturer in Socialism 101 vs. the boastful, power-tie-wearing business mogul — but they have worked in tandem to ensure that the center of […]
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The shakeup in Washington
The Richter scale is showing signs of tremors in Washington, D.C. Big money is doing everything possible to minimize the earthquakes, at whatever cost, so that Hillary Clinton defeats Bernie Sanders. Money is evil — it buys power and it needs to be removed from politics so that there is a fair democracy. It is […]
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I will vote for Bernie Sanders
When looking at the choices in the November election, many people might be more than a little frustrated. I was, too, until I realized that while the Democratic primary system may be rigged with bought politicians and lobbyists as super delegates, they still have no control over who I vote for in November. I am […]
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Sanders: Clinton team thinks race ‘is over. They’re wrong’
Data curated by InsideGov WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that his primary bid against Hillary Clinton was far from over, pointing to his victory in Indiana and strength in upcoming races as a sign of his durability in the presidential campaign. “I know that the Clinton campaign thinks this campaign is over. They’re […]
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Will Bernie nation get behind Hillary?
“And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.” Those are, of course, the opening lyrics to Frank Sinatra’s immortal recording of “My Way.” They are also a succinct description of the state of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. Last week, the candidate announced he was laying off hundreds of staff members […]