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Bernie Sanders is running neck and neck with Hillary Clinton in the last major primary battle

May 27, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders is running neck and neck with Hillary Clinton in the last major primary battle
By Maxwell Tani, Business Insider

(May 27, 2016 7:50 a.m. ET) — Sen. Bernie Sanders appears to be closing in on Hillary Clinton in California, which holds the last major battle of the presidential primaries early next month.

A new Public Policy Institute survey of California released on Thursday found Sanders within two points of the former secretary of state, who garnered 46% support among likely Democratic primary voters.

As in other contests, a Clinton win will likely depend on her strength among older voters and minorities.

(http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bernie-sanders-running-neck-neck-180724917.html.)

Young Turks host offers $1M for Trump, Sanders debate

May 27, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Young Turks host offers $1M for Trump, Sanders debate
By Jesse Byrnes, The Hill

(May 27, 2016 7:26 a.m.) — The Young Turks online program is offering up $1 million to host a debate between Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.

“We are now offering $1 million to charity in order to have that debate,” Young Turks host Cenk Uygur said at a dinner at the National Press Club in Washington on Thursday night.

“This is a very real offer,” Uygur said, adding that Trump and Sanders could pick the charity.

“It is our belief that the Bernie Sanders campaign is already in,” Uygur said, adding notices had been sent to both campaigns and the program was waiting to hear back from Trump.

‘Game on’: Trump and Bernie may be up for a (real) debate

May 26, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

‘Game on’: Trump and Bernie may be up for a (real) debate
By RT.com

(May 26, 2016 08:57) — Though the primary season is not yet finished, Democratic contender Bernie Sanders has challenged the Republican nominee Donald Trump to a one-on-one debate in California. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has refused to debate Sanders.

In a Wednesday appearance on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Trump was asked if he would consider holding a debate with Sanders, reading the challenge that was written in a letter by the Democratic candidate.

“Hillary Clinton backed out of an agreement to debate me in California before the June 7th primary,” the letter read. “Are you prepared to debate the major issues facing our largest state and the country prior to the California primary?”

Bernie’s Evolution

May 26, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie’s Evolution
By Philip Elliott and Sam Frizell, Time

(May 26, 2016 7:24 a.m.) — His unlikely crusade became a genuine campaign. Now Sanders faces a choice—and a test.

Bernie Sanders wanted to sit in the sun, but not even the sharp California rays on the rooftop deck at a San Diego hotel could brighten his mood. There was still too much at stake, he said, too many lies being told, too many foes with bad motives inside his adopted party. The irascible impatience that has defined Sanders’ entire life—the fury of David against Goliath, of the worker against the owner—was peaking. And still people were telling him to hang it up, get in line and go back to the dairy pastures of Vermont.

State Dept. watchdog – Clinton violated email rules

May 25, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

State Dept. watchdog – Clinton violated email rules
By Rachael Bade, Josh Gerstein and Nick Gass, Politico

(May 25, 2016 10:01 a.m.) — The State Department inspector general concluded that Hillary Clinton did not comply with the agency’s policies on records, according to a report released to lawmakers on Wednesday that also revealed Clinton expressing reluctance about an official email account and hacking attempts on her private server.

The agency on Wednesday released the long-awaited findings on the email controversy to Capitol Hill, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO, providing just the latest turn in the headache-inducing saga that has dogged Clinton’s campaign.

The Bernie Effect: Five Ways Sanders May Impact the Democractic Party Platform

May 25, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

The Bernie Effect: Five Ways Sanders May Impact the Democractic Party Platform
By Samantha Kilgore, Inquisitr

(May 25, 2016 Although it is becoming increasingly clear that Senator Bernie Sanders, despite running a brilliant, odds-defying campaign, will not be able to clinch the Democratic nomination for the presidency, it’s also becoming clear that there will be a long-lasting “Bernie effect,” long after he concedes to Hillary Clinton. Sanders has shown the Democratic establishment that America is, indeed, hungry for change, and open to ideas and policies that were once dismissed as being “too liberal.” Through Sanders’s potential shaping of the Democratic platform, the Bernie effect may change the face of the Democratic party.

In an unprecedented move, meant to spark unity between Sanders’s passionate supporters and Hillary Clinton’s supporters, the Sanders campaign was given five seats on the Democratic Platform Committee. Clinton was give six appointees, and the Democratic National Committee will add an additional four, for a total of 15. The committee will be chaired by Representative Elijah Cummings.

Bernie Sanders Went To Anaheim And Slammed Disney

May 24, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders Went To Anaheim And Slammed Disney
BY JULIA WICK, Laist.com

(May 24, 2016 6:38 pm) — Populist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is in Los Angeles, and after appearing in Santa Monica last night and swinging through Glassell Park for some third-wave coffee this morning, it appears that he caused quite a sensation with a speech in Anaheim Tuesday.

Speaking to a crowd of 1,500 across the street from Disneyland at the Anaheim Convention Center, Sanders trashed the hand that feeds this company town. The Orange County Register reports that during his speech, Sanders used Disney “as an example of the downside of modern capitalism,” saying:

“We’re in a nation where a lot of people are in trouble,” Sanders told a crowd of about 1,500 at the Anaheim Convention Center.
Then he asked this: “Anybody here working for Disney?” Many responded that they do.
“Anybody here making a living wage working for Disney?” Many responded that they do not.

Can Sanders’ money swamp Wasserman Schultz?

May 24, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Can Sanders’ money swamp Wasserman Schultz?
By Elena Schneider, Politico

(May 24, 2016 6:07 pm) — Bernie Sanders is staking some of his post-presidential campaign legacy on a challenger to the DNC chair.

Suddenly, Tim Canova is the most famous primary challenger in America.

With Bernie Sanders’ unexpected endorsement on national television, Canova, a lawyer from Hollywood, Fla., got a dramatic boost for his liberal challenge to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. In three days since Sanders endorsed him, Canova’s phone has been ringing off the hook, he’s been all over the national news, and his campaign is suddenly grabbing the attention of national Democrats.

Bernie Sanders campaign requests Kentucky vote recanvass

May 24, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders campaign requests Kentucky vote recanvass
By Tribune News Service

(May 24, 2016 12:38 pm) — Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign requested a recanvass in Kentucky’s presidential primary Tuesday, where he trails Hillary Clinton by less than one-half of 1 percent of the vote.

The Sanders campaign said it has asked the Kentucky secretary of state to have election officials review electronic voting machines and absentee ballots from last week’s primary in each of the state’s 120 counties.

Sanders supporters and allies sue to extend California’s voter registration deadline

May 24, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Sanders supporters and allies sue to extend California’s voter registration deadline
By RT.com

(May 24, 2016 3:16 a.m.) — Bernie Sanders’ supporters filed a federal lawsuit alleging widespread confusion over California’s presidential primary voting rules, demanding voter registration be extended past Monday’s deadline until the day of the state’s primary election.

The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, names Secretary of State Alex Padilla and election officials in San Francisco and Alameda County. Plaintiffs include Voting Rights Defense Project, an organization trying to boost turnout for Bernie Sanders, two Bay Area voters and the American Independent Party (AIP), a far-right group.

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