Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumTampa Bay Times: A week to go before Fl primary, Sanders shows up to campaign
Even with three campaign events this week and a Wednesday night debate in Miami his first trip to Florida as a presidential candidate there have been few signs of the Vermont senator on the state's campaign trail.
Political analysts say that's no accident.
"To say it's a pipe dream would imply he actually thinks he has a shot," said University of Central Florida political science professor Aubrey Jewett. "I suspect he realizes he doesn't have a shot in Florida, but to be taken seriously as a candidate, you have to basically compete in the biggest battleground state."
As of Tuesday, Sanders was 25.6 points behind Clinton in Florida, with just 32.2 percent of Democrats' support, according to a RealClearPolitics.com average of state polling data.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/with-a-week-to-go-before-florida-primary-sanders-shows-up-to-campaign/2268485
LannyDeVaney
(1,033 posts)Not much of a surge.
Somebody needs to tell him that Florida is a whee-bit important in campaigns.
William769
(55,196 posts)Lost it big time.
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)Bernie Sanders declined to opine Tuesday on perhaps the most important issue for South Florida Colombian-American voters: the fraught peace talks between the Colombian government and armed guerrillas.
Asked about the negotiations on a Colombian-American radio station in Miami, Sanders said he had to brush up. The peace process has been under way in Havana for more than three years.
"Um, I have to tell you that I am not up to date on that issue," Sanders told Radio Caracol, WSUA-AM (1260). "What I will tell you is that I think the United States has not paid anywhere near the kind of attention that it should be paying to Latin America, who are our closest allies."
His Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, is the former U.S. secretary of state.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2016/03/bernie-sanders-says-he-has-to-brush-up-on-colombian-peace-process.html
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,710 posts)This is not a test you cram for at the last minute.
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)Don't you love the subtle "his opponent was the Sec State"? Made me smile!
Treant
(1,968 posts)Or something like that...
radical noodle
(8,031 posts)to cast my vote in Florida for Hillary on March 15th! It's hard for me to imagine Bernie winning here.
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