Presidential Campaign 2016

Bernie Sanders Team Claims ‘It Ain’t Over’ After Hillary Clinton Clinches

June 8, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders Team Claims ‘It Ain’t Over’ After Hillary Clinton Clinches
By Daily Beast

(June 8, 2016 03:36 a.m.) — After decisive wins in New Jersey and California, Hillary Clinton takes a victory lap. But Bernie vows to fight on, and on, and on.

The Democratic primary contest that no one saw coming between the woman who would be president and a gnarly socialist senator from Vermont is finally, finally—but, ahem, not entirely—over.

Even before Tuesday’s primaries, the Associated Press had counted enough solid delegates, committed and “super,” to declare Hillary Clinton the putative nominee. And after her more-than-convincing primary victories in New Jersey and California last night (63 percent and 56 percent), she decided it was time for a victory lap. From above the old glass ceiling, she reached down to Bernie Sanders, congratulating him on his campaign and, looking back at her own emotions in 2008, saying she knew well how hard it is to concede.

4 Reasons Bernie Sanders Could Fight On

June 7, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

4 Reasons Bernie Sanders Could Fight On
Why Clinton’s call for Sanders to fall in line misreads the 2016 race
By , RollingStone

(June 7, 2016 03:00 p.m.) — On Monday — even before the Associated Press declared her the presumptive Democratic nominee — Hillary Clinton leaned on Bernie Sanders to fall in line. Citing her own precedent from 2008, Clinton told reporters, “Tomorrow is eight years to the day after I withdrew and endorsed then-Sen. Obama. I believed it was the right thing to do.”

The message from Clinton is clear: Let’s get that “Kumbaya moment” going, Bernie. And make it snappy.

Bernie Sanders Visits SF’s Mission District

June 6, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders Visits SF’s Mission District
By Laura Wenus

(June 6, 2016 21:06 pm) — Senator Bernie Sanders addressed a crowd of more than 200 in San Francisco’s Mission District, the ZIP code that has raised the most money for the presidential hopeful’s campaign nationwide, one day before the California primary election on June 7.

In his remarks at the City College of San Francisco’s Mission campus, the Vermont senator addressed some of his main campaign points, including concerns over the influence of big banks and financial firms on politics, global warming and the need for environmental protections, accessible higher education and political engagement. But he dismissed the notion that these are radical ideals.

“Our ideas are as mainstream as motherhood and apple pie,” he said.

Bernie Sanders Can Still be the Democratic Nominee

June 5, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders Can Still be the Democratic Nominee
By Kim McLendon, Inquisitr

(June 5, 2016 11:00 pm) — Bernie Sanders still has a good chance to win the nomination. Clinton supporters want the public to think the primary is over, but that just isn’t true. There are still 714 winnable delegates in play, and an additional 67 delegates yet to be assigned when the votes are counted in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. So far, the counting process is going slowly.

On June 7, there will be 694 pledged delegates up for grabs, including 475 delegates from California. The District of Columbia will offer another 20 in the final primary on June 14, according to Real Clear Politics. In addition, another 67 delegates will be assigned for votes cast this weekend and are yet to be counted in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

ernie Sanders: Clinton Foundation Is A “Problem,” Took Money From “Dictatorships”

June 5, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders: Clinton Foundation Is A “Problem”
By Tim Hains, RealClearPolitics

(June 5, 2016 11:05 a.m.) — “If you ask me about the Clinton Foundation, do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects many millions of dollars from foreign governments, many governments which are dictatorships… yeah I do,” Sanders said in an interview Sunday morning with Jake Tapper on CNN’s ‘State of the Union.’

“You don’t have a lot of respect there for opposition points of view for gay rights or women’s rights,” he said about countries she accepted money from, like Saudi Arabia.

Bernie Sanders Erased Hillary Clinton’s 15-Point Lead In California

June 4, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders Erased Hillary Clinton’s 15-Point Lead In California
By Nathan Francis, Inquisitr

(June 4, 2016 10:18 a.m.) — Bernie Sanders looked as if he would limp into the California primary and watch his upset bid over Hillary Clinton fizzle, but a surge in the polls and rumblings that superdelegates committed to Clinton may be showing hesitation has given his campaign new energy.

In recent weeks, Clinton appeared to hold a wide lead over Sanders in the Golden State. Polls showed her lead to be somewhere in the range of 15 to 18 points over Bernie Sanders, pointing to a win that would seal the nomination, thanks to Clinton’s big lead in the party-picked superdelegates, many of whom committed to her before a single vote was cast this year.

The past week saw an abrupt change, however. The latest set of polls from California showed the two candidates in a dead heat, and a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll this week found that Sanders had actually taken a slim lead.

Bernie Sanders hopes to defy odds with voters: ‘California loves a comeback’

June 4, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders hopes to defy odds with voters: ‘California loves a comeback’
By Sam T Levin, Guardian

(June 4, 2016 10:00 a.m.) — Leah Dean showed up to Bernie Sanders’ rally in a small town 90 miles north of San Francisco carrying a bright blue and yellow sign. It said: “Strength in numbers.”

The 30-year-old’s poster was a reference to the slogan of the Golden State Warriors, the team that Sanders recently visited, leading him to compare his underdog campaign to the efforts of the basketball players, who last week overcame a significant deficit and made it to the NBA finals.

Bernie’s wrecking crew

June 3, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie’s wrecking crew
By Annie Karni, Politico

(June 3, 20126 05:42 a.m. ET) — Sanders’ New York delegation is threatening to sow chaos on the convention floor. Call them Hillary’s home-state haters.

A group of rabble-rousing Bernie Sanders supporters from New York is headed for the Democratic National Convention next month as hand-picked, at-large delegates — and they’re threatening to make trouble for Hillary Clinton at the very moment she hopes to make history as the first female nominee of either party and unite Democrats for the coming battle with Donald Trump.

The disgruntled Sanders delegation, heading to Philadelphia with deep reservations about Clinton’s brand of center-left pragmatism, serves as a reminder of how contentious the four-day meeting could become, and a warning to Democrats of the importance of bringing Sanders happily into the fold.

Grassroots Artists Capture Bernie Sanders

June 2, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Grassroots Artists Capture Bernie Sanders
By MATT WUERKER and BRIANNA GURCIULLO, Politico

(June 2, 2016 20:30 ET) — The 2008 campaign, with its iconic Shepard Fairey red-white-and-blue posters of Obama, created a new role for progressive grassroots art in the modern political campaign. In 2016, it might be the Sanders campaign that has attracted the most such artists, with lots of talented designers vying to come up with this year’s Faireyesque Bernie icon—even Fairey himself. While some of these DIY artistic efforts have made their way onto the merchandise section of Bernie’s official website, most are being sold outside of the official campaign—on Etsy, for instance, or off of card tables outside of rallies.

Here’s a sample of the best art that has been inspired by Bernie’s unlikely and dogged quest for the presidency.

Bernie Sanders Applauds Obama Support for Expanding Social Security

June 2, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders Applauds Obama Support for Expanding Social Security (Video)
By Press, ENewspf

PALO ALTO, Calif., (June 2, 2016 12:00) — PALO ALTO, Calif. –(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2016. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday applauded President Barack Obama’s support for expanding Social Security by asking the “wealthiest Americans to contribute a little bit more.”

Sanders urged Hillary Clinton to back legislation endorsed by leading Democrats and seniors’ advocates to strengthen the retirement program.

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