Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both accused Donald Trump of inciting violence, with the former secretary of state calling him "bigoted" and alleging he had perpetrated "political arson," while the Vermont senator labeled him a "pathological liar" at a town hall on Sunday night.
I hesitate to say this because I really don't like to disparage public officials, but Donald Trump is a pathological liar," Sanders said.
Sanders also blasted Trump for saying that he might pay the legal fees of a man charged with punching a protester at one of his rallies, adding that doing so was tantamount to "inciting violence."
"I would hope Mr. Trump tones it down big time and tells his supporters that violence is not acceptable in the American political process," Sanders said.
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At one point while talking about trade though, Sanders slipped in another backhanded slap at Trump. Defending his position on trade, Sanders said that he did not want to cut off the United States from global trade flows.
"Nobody is talking about building a wall around the United States," Sanders said, before trailing off when people in the audience started chuckling. "Oh, I beg your pardon, there is one guy who is talking about building a wall. Let me rephrase it: no rational person is talking about building a wall."
As for Sanders, it'd be easy to guess that he is close to his campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, who has worked with the Vermont senator in various capacities since he was 18 years old.
There's not a snowball's chance, though, that you'd have guessed another friend he named: Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe.
Asked to name a friend on the other side of the political spectrum, Sanders named Inhofe, with whom he serves on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Sanders prefaced his explanation of why he likes Inhofe by acknowledging that the Republican is "a climate change denier."
"And he is really, really conservative," he said. "But you know what, he is a decent guy, and I like him, and he and I are friends. And you find that -- you find the fact that just because you have very significant political differences, doesn't mean to say that you cannot develop friendships with good people."
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders attended an event in Columbus Sunday night.
The 2016 Ohio Democratic Party Legacy Dinner was at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.
Clinton and Sanders were guest speakers. Sen. Sherrod Brown and former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland were also in attendance.
"Maybe the time is right to create an economy that works for all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors," Sanders said during his remarks. "Maybe, just maybe, it's time to end our disastrous trade policies... And tell corporate American that they better start investing in this country, not just China."
He also spoke about raising the minimum wage, guaranteed health care and overturning Citizens United.
According to the popular polling website Five Thirty Eight, Hillary Clinton has a "greater than 99% chance" of winning Florida and North Carolina this coming Tuesday -- Super Tuesday 3, for those counting at home -- as well as a 98% chance of winning Ohio, a 95% chance of winning Illinois, and an 80% chance of winning Missouri.
Pretty daunting news for Bernie Sanders. The question is, does it have any basis in fact?
The day before Sanders' win in Michigan, Sanders supporters were celebrating a Michigan State poll showing the Senator within five points of Clinton -- hard on the heels of three polls taken in the first 96 hours of March showing (chronologically) Clinton with a lead of +28, +17, and +11. The trend toward a Sanders win seemed clear to many, yet the Michigan State poll never appeared on Five Thirty Eight, forcing the popular site to declare Sanders' Michigan win "one of the greatest upsets in modern political history" -- but also "among the greatest polling errors in primary history."
One wouldn't expect the justly admired Nate Silver (the founder of Five Thirty Eight) to make the same mistake twice in a week, but it seems possible that that's exactly where the Clinton-Sanders race is headed this coming Tuesday.
Here's what we know: down by 37 in Illinois just five days ago, Sanders is now up by two according to CBS News; down by 30 in Ohio five days ago, Sanders is now down by only single digits; the only polling in Missouri has Sanders in a statistical dead heat with Clinton, per the poll's margin of error; and while the polling in Florida at first blush seems less favorable -- Sanders has "only" cut 17 points off Clinton's 45-point lead in the last 48 hours, according to CBS News -- the Sanders campaign reports its internal polling shows a race in the high single-digits, and given that this internal data turned out to be correct in Michigan, it seems we should all be paying it some mind.
As a last minute push to rally the vote in Ohio before Tuesday’s primary election. Senator Bernie Sanders spoke to a crowd of thousands inside the Schottenstein Center.
Sanders told his supporters Sunday he can win in Ohio if the voter turnout is large come Tuesday. He said if it isn’t, he will lose.
"Bernie Sanders has our back, we don't need no super pac,” the crowd cheered.
Sanders spoke on stage to rally his supporters just days away from Ohio’s presidential primary election. "You know what I think, I think on Tuesday, we're going to win here in Ohio,” Sanders said.
Sanders pumped up the crowd, asking voters to stand together. He says some of the major problems in the nation right now are a broken criminal justice system, corrupt campaign finance and a rigged economy.
"Mom works, dad works, kids work, marriages suffer, kids don't get the attention they need and after all of that 58% of the income goes to the top 1%,” Sanders said.
Sanders says he’ll work to raise the minimum wage, extend social security and make public colleges and universities tuition free.
More than 2,000 supporters of Bernie Sanders packed inside Affton High School – some of them forced into an overflow room – to hear the Senator from Vermont speak in preparation for Tuesday’s primary in Missouri.
Famed actor Danny DeVito introduced Sanders to the raucous crowd.
The theme of the senator’s speech was money. He’s calling for an end to the growing gap between the rich and the poor. He’s calling for a $15 per hour minimum wage. He’s calling for equal pay for women. He’s calling for free tuition at public universities. He’s calling for an end to outrageous student loans in this country.
Sanders says sometimes the truth about what’s broken in this country is not fun to hear.
“A lot of the things that are going on in this country are wrong and a lot of people are being hurt,” Sanders said to the packed house. “Unless we have the courage to look at reality there is no way that we can rectify the problems and go forward.”
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Supporters waited in line all morning long to get a look at Bernie Sanders at Affton High School. Some waited since as early as 12:30 in the morning for an afternoon speech. They believe the biggest problem this country faces today is, indeed, all tied to money.
“It’s just the corporate greed. How many zeroes does everybody need? Let’s take care of the people first and let everything else fall into place,” Andrew Boerschig said.
Regardless of what you think of Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ politics, the fact that he’s an adorable old man who looks like he just woke up after a long nap on a Vinnies couch is indisputable. Larry David devotes an inordinate amount of time to impersonating him; he runs for the train like an agitated turtle; he played a cranky rabbi in some long-forgotten ’90s B-movie, for cryin’ out loud.
But the best adorable old duffers always come in pairs — think Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, Statler and Waldorf, the Grumpy Old Men franchise. Now Bernie joins that hallowed list, with actor and fellow tiny old man Danny DeVito as his partner in crime. DeVito, a vocal Sanders supporter, volunteered to introduce a Sanders rally in St Louis last night, and the Sanders campaign has just posted footage of their meeting backstage. If you don’t enjoy two scruffy old men joyously giving each other bearhugs, don’t watch the video below. Also, you are not welcome on this website anymore, what is the matter with you.
Hundreds of Bernie Sanders supporters rallied and marched the streets of downtown Cleveland Sunday ahead of the Ohio primary election on Tuesday.
The rally for the Democratic presidential candidate started at Willard Park at the intersection of East 9th Street and Lakeside Avenue with Cleveland police escorts.
Supporters and organizers marched past Senator Sherrod Brown’s Democratic Party office and ended at Bernie Sanders' campaign office, located on Euclid Avenue.
The event was peaceful and no incidents were reported.
An estimated 27 percent of young people in Michigan participated in the primaries, nearly double the rate of 2008. About 19 percent of Democratic voters were under 30, according to exit polls, almost as many as people over 65, a group with traditionally high turnout rates. Young people are not monolithic, though. About 45 percent of Michiganders under 30 who voted on Tuesday cast Republican ballots. But among young Democrats, Sanders won 4 to 1.
While he hasn’t done as well with young voters in states with large black populations — on Super Tuesday, Sanders won 82 percent of the youth vote in Oklahoma and 40 percent in Alabama — he still does better with young black voters than with older African-Americans, based on our analysis of exit poll data.
But 60 percent of young Latinos who voted Democratic supported Senator Sanders on Super Tuesday, and Latinos made up 27 percent of young Democratic voters on that day.
Young voters have generally chosen presidential candidates whose positions on major issues reflect their own. Unlike older voters, who see a self-proclaimed democratic socialist like Sanders as unelectable, young people are unfazed by this label. Instead, a greater proportion of young voters than older voters prioritize income inequality and hope that the next president’s policies will be more liberal than those of President Obama. Voters under 30 now outnumber voters over 65.
Presidential candidates and their supporters have been making a final plea to voters ahead of Tuesday's primary. A rally in support of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders was held Sunday at the Pitt County courthouse.
The large group of people huddled under their umbrellas in front of the courthouse and across the street as light rain fell. Many were holding signs reading, "Bernie for president" and "A future to believe in."
The rally was hosted by ECU for Bernie Sanders, Pitt County for Bernie Sanders, and Bernie Sanders' national campaign.
Zachary Pate is an ECU student and volunteer who says he helped organize the rally because he supports Sanders' platform."In a sense of campaign finance reform, getting the influence of big money out of politics so we can actually accomplish something that helps working families and low income people in this country," Pate said.
In the Salina School precincts in southeast Dearborn, where the residential population is at least 90% Arab-American Muslim, Sanders got 67% compared to Hillary Clinton's 32%. The same Salina precincts voted 72% for George W. Bush over Al Gore in November 2000, when the area was, as it is now, almost all Muslim.
Sanders also won in other precincts where Arab-American Muslims are in a clear majority: At Oakman School's two precincts, Sanders led Clinton 70% to 29%; at Lowrey School, 71% to 28%, and at McDonald School's two precincts, 67% to 32%. Clinton did, however, beat Sanders in an election precinct in Hamtramck that is largely Yemeni-American Muslim.
"I was predicting he would win the Arabic vote," said Shiab Mussad, 22, an Arab-American Muslim voter in Dearborn who supported Sanders. "Some people think because he's a Jewish person, we would never want to vote for a candidate like that. But it shows you how great America is, that regardless of religion, we can vote for someone who's the best candidate to represent us and the country."
"You hear all these stories in the media about the tensions between Muslims and Jews, and then you come to Dearborn, and we have such great support for this man. We look beyond differences for the best candidate to help our community. That is the beauty of America."
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One of the ways Sanders attracted voters was through his messaging. Sanders' campaign released a radio ad in Arabic aimed at Dearborn's media market. And Sanders spoke at two rallies in Dearborn in the past three weeks, attracting many Arab-American Muslims. He was supported by several local Arab-American Muslim leaders, who sent out e-mails and social media posts urging support.
"He ... made strong statements against bigotry, whereas in this election cycle the rhetoric of the Republican candidates has mainstreamed anti-Muslim bigotry to an alarming degree," said Sally Howell, a professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, who studies Muslim-American and Arab-American communities.