The Bare Bones of Life
Green Party Candidate Invites Bernie Sanders To Take Over Ticket
By Kerry Picket
(July 8, 2016 3:28 p.m.) — Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton may not have seen the last of Bernie Sanders this election cycle.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has offered to step aside from running as the party nominee and allow Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to take over the ticket, The Guardian reports.
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Bernie Sanders Expected To Endorse Hillary Clinton On Tuesday
By Jessica Taylor & Amita Kelly, NPR.org
(July 7, 2016 4:27 p.m. ET) — Bernie Sanders is expected to endorse Hillary Clinton on Tuesday at an event in New Hampshire, a Democratic source with knowledge of discussions between the two campaigns tell NPR’s Tamara Keith.
Clinton secured enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination just over a month ago, but Sanders has stayed in the campaign — though he kept a lower profile.
Vice President Biden told NPR last week that he was confident Sanders would endorse Clinton, but at that time Sanders said he wasn’t quite ready.
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Sanders Files Permit Request for Huge Rally on Eve of Democratic Convention
By Nadia Prupis, staff writer
(July 6, 2016 6:00 p.m.) — Bernie Sanders’ next signature rally may take place in Philadelphia—the night before the Democratic National Convention.
The Vermont senator’s campaign has applied for a permit to hold an event that will reportedly host between 15,000 to 40,000 people on July 24 at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park. It is one of 10 such pro-Sanders events requesting permission from the Philadelphia mayor’s office, the Burlington Free Press reports.
Sanders spokesperson Michael Briggs said last month that the senator was planning to deliver a “victory statement” in Philadelphia, but said on Wednesday that plans for the rally are still being finalized
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Sanders booed by House Democrats
By Heather Caygle and Seung Min Kim
(July 6, 2016 10:49 a.m.) — Lawmakers press Sanders during a tense question-and-answer session on whether he would ultimately endorse Clinton and help foster party unity.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is still talking like a guy who’s running for president. But frustrated House Democrats — who booed him at one point during a morning meeting — say it’s time to stop.
With the Democratic convention just weeks away, Sanders still hasn’t endorsed one-time rival Hillary Clinton and dodged questions about when he would during a tense meeting Wednesday morning with House Democrats.
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Bernie Sanders’ Reaction To The Clinton Email Findings Was Predictably Muted
By Becky Bracken, Romper.com
(July 5, 2016 3:00 p.m.) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has always tried to stay out of the scandal surrounding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server, even famously saying he was “tired” of hearing about her “damn emails” in an early debate between the two Democrats running for the party’s presidential nomination. But what is Bernie Sanders’ reaction to the FBI’s recommendation on Clinton’s email scandal just released today? He says it has no impact on his candidacy.
Sanders is in a weird spot. He’s no longer actively campaigning for president, but his campaign is still active. Sanders hasn’t suspended his campaign, but has said in interviews he will vote for and support Clinton and is willing to do whatever it takes to help defend Donald Trump, adding “It doesn’t appear that I’m going to be the nominee,” during an interview with CSPAN, The Hill reported.
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End Citizens United aggressively seeks campaign finance reform
By Joe Garofoli, San Fransisco Chronicle
(July 4, 2016 07:12 pm) — In one of his earliest moments of raw candor during the presidential campaign, Donald Trump said that when big donors like him give politicians money, they “do whatever the hell you want them to do.”
“That’s a broken system,” Trump said during a Republican debate back in August. He piled on by mocking his opponents who pandered to the Koch brothers as “puppets” of the billionaire conservative businessmen.
Yet even as the political polar opposites Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont spent the past year railing on about a “rigged” political system that allows wealthy donors outsize influence, campaign finance reform isn’t the kind of sexy issue that drives voters to the polls.
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Bernie Sanders’ supporters scoff at Hillary Clinton-Elizabeth Warren ticket
By Ben Wolfgang – The Washington Times
(July 3, 2016 6:00 p.m.) — Some progressives want Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont on the Democratic presidential ticket and won’t be fully satisfied with anyone else as Hillary Clinton’s No. 2 — not even fellow anti-Wall Street crusader and liberal firebrand Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Ms. Warren has emerged as a top contender to be Mrs. Clinton’s running mate, but data show that picking the senator from Massachusetts won’t necessarily lead liberals to coalesce around Mrs. Clinton and would have little impact on independent and moderate voters.
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Tim Canova camp says new poll shows him ‘within striking distance’ of Debbie Wasserman Schultz
By Mitch Perry, Florida Politics
(July 31, 2016 12:55 p.m.) — Debbie Wasserman Schultz leads her Democratic challenger Tim Canova by eight percentage points in Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, 46 percent to 38 percent, according to a new poll released Sunday by the Canova campaign. What’s more, after the pollsters provided more information about Canova to likely voters, Wasserman Schultz’ lead was reduced to just three points, 43 percent to 40 percent.
The survey, conducted by the Los Angeles-based polling group of Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3), was in the field immediately after Wasserman Schultz stepped down as head of the Democratic National Committee last week.
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Top Sanders Adviser Praises Procedure For Drafting DNC Platform
By Sam Levine, Huffington Post
(July 2, 2016 10:59 a.m.) — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has repeatedly criticized the Democratic Party for running an unfair primary and called for the removal of its chair. But one of his top advisers this week described the party’s process for drafting its platform as “pretty good.”
While Sanders has begun acknowledging he is not going to be the Democratic nominee for president, he has called for a “fundamental transformation” of the party and vowed to remain in the race to influence its platform. The independent senator clearly influenced the final draft of the Democratic National Convention’s platform, which includes a $15 minimum wage and language like a “rigged economy” — a term Sanders has often used in speeches on the campaign trail.
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If Hillary Clinton Is Indicted, Would Bernie Sanders Be The Nominee?
By Cheyna Roth, Bustle.com
(July 1, 2016 08:00 a.m.) — On Friday in a press conference, Attorney General Loretta Lynch vowed to “accept” investigators’ and prosecutors’ recommendations regarding whether to indict presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s alleged use of an insecure email server. This announcement set aside whisperings that Lynch would be a safety net for Clinton if an indictment was recommended, particularly in light of a certain tarmac rendezvous with Bill.
While Clinton waits to hear her fate, some wonder if an indictment would help the all-but-defunct campaign of her rival, Bernie Sanders. Looking at the inevitable domino reaction that could come with an indicted presidential candidate, the question becomes, could Sanders become the nominee if Clinton is indicted?
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