Bernie Sanders CHALLENGES Hillary Clinton to DEBATE in New York

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PRESS RELEASE


Sanders Challenges Clinton to Debate in New York



MARCH 27TH, 2016

BURLINGTON, Vt. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday challenged Hillary Clinton to debate him in New York before the state’s April 19 primary election.

“I would hope very much that as we go into New York state, Secretary Clinton’s home state, that we will have a debate – New York City or Upstate, wherever – on the important issues facing New York and, in fact, the country,” Sanders told Chuck Todd in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Fresh off sweeping victories on Saturday in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii, Sanders was looking ahead to upcoming primaries in Wisconsin and New York.

He told The Associated Press it was “really absurd” that Clinton so far has refused to agree to a debate with him in her home state.

Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, wrote a letter on Sunday to Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, underscoring the senator’s call for a New York debate.

“New York will play a critical role in determining the Democratic nominee. However, your campaign has consistently chosen to deny the people of New York the opportunity to see Senator Sanders and Secretary Clinton debate in the Empire State,” Weaver wrote to Mook.

“It is difficult to understand your motivation,” Weaver added “Can you please explain why New York should not host the April debate? Is the Secretary concerned about debating before the people who twice elected her to the U.S. Senate? Perhaps there is some tactical advantage you are seeking by avoiding a debate in New York but I would remind you that Sen. Sanders agreed to debate the secretary in New Hampshire when he was well ahead in the polls.”

To watch Sanders on Meet the Press, click here.

To read Jeff Weaver’s letter, click here.





https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-challenges-clinton-debate-new-york/

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1. GO BERNIE!....

Take it to Hillary's home turf...

[libtodeath]

2. She is scared to.

[Gomez163]

5. She has won every debate she has ever had with him. It means nothing.

[libtodeath]

7. *

[Luminous Animal]

11. Your subject title reminds me of Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions"

He had some fun drawings of underpants and other things.

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8. Hold it,...stand back please...

Aaaaahh.......ok,...carry on!

[NWCorona]

49. Memories

[rhett o rick]

9. He has debated circles around her despite the fact that the commentators general give

her more time. She has been caught in strong misstatements. The fact checkers have a ball with her "speeches".

[Seeinghope]

21. Too bad the people don't know about the fact(s) checksers

Why let little things like that get in the way?

[rhett o rick]

25. I agree, Clinton seems to step on the truth often. nm

[snowy owl]

47. Karen Tumulty of WA Post gave Clinton tons of time over Bernie

She kept telling Bernie his time was up. Both H and B did go long but she was much easier on Clinton. Sick of the beltway press.

[Seeinghope]

15. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! She won with sourpus looks and defensive double talk, I'll give her that

much but that is it.

[Gomez163]

24. Bernie runs out of talking points in 5 minutes. Then it's just shouting.

America is getting bored with it.

[Seeinghope]

45. Do you watch it on FF?

No, America is not getting bored with it. His rallies are growing in size and the Clintons are having to finagle more at the polling stations. Bernie Sanders is performing better or what is expected at the Primaries. Mostly better. That doesn't sound like an America "getting tired".

[snowy owl]

48. that's garbage

[Gomez163]

55. millionahs and billionahs

[rhett o rick]

56. You are right in a sense. Sen Sanders says the same thing a lot. He has been telling the

truth for many years. Clinton speaks in rhetoric and has changed her positions on most issues.

She tells the truth to Goldman-Sachs because they pay her well. She can't let us see those transcripts because it would reveal that she has been lying to the public forever. She did slip up the other day and told the truth about her admiration of the Reagans and their firm stand against AIDS and HIV. She quickly recognized that she told the truth and had to back it down.

I can't believe that Democrats would try to disparage Sen Sanders' messages about helping the 99% by calling them "talking points". He has real proposals to help those among us that are struggling and Clinton has nothing but rhetoric. What is she going to do about fracking, the TPP, college student debt, medical marijuana, the Patriot Act, indefinite detention, etc.? Status quo if we are lucky, make things worse for the 99% while more profits for the 1%.

Bernie shouts because he is adamant about helping those that need help and not the Wealthy 1% that some seem to bow before.

[Logical]

26. LOL, now that is really funny. Sure she has, and has dropped in the polls every time. nt

[daleanime]

30. ......

[okasha]

17. Hardly.

She has won every debate to date and consistently outperformed Sanders in town halls. She's gotten a nice bump in the polls every time.

The question is why Sanders wants her to hand him his ass again. As far as that's concerned

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18. Easy on the egg nog today....

[okasha]

27. Eggnog at Easter?

How strange.

[bettyellen]

51. Marshmallow flavored. Yep. It is a thing.

[okasha]

52. Sounds horrible.

[bettyellen]

53. And then meanwhile Peeps are in crazy flavors- sour watermelon and strawberry. Holidays are

getting weird! I saw marshmallow flavored everything in the grocery this past week. Yikes.

[rhett o rick]

28. Sanders message is always the same. He supports the 99%. Clinton triangulates

and tries to come across as progressive but fails miserably. She want's to amass a huge fortune. It's obvious.

[okasha]

38. A slogan is not an argument.

[Logical]

29. Bullshit. Here is a graph how well she has done in the last few months.

[okasha]

42. Not to the point at all

unless it's coordinated with the debate dates.

[thereismore]

34. Debated in NH and MI. Hillary loses NH and MI.

I think she scared.

[okasha]

43. But followed NH with a winning streak

I find that I'm curious why so many Bernie fans cling to the notion that they--or their hero--SCARE or TERRIFY other people, almost always in caps. It certainly seem to satisfy some psychological need.

[CorporatistNation]

46. tough , courageous, experience... HILLARY...REALLY?

RUNNIN FER DA HILLS! SCEEERT SH**LESS!

[Jitter65]

3. And I hope Hillary gets a chance to refute everyone of his unsubstantiated and misleading assertions

about her. And I hope she calls him out on the issues he is pretending to be the sole projector of when many of the issues he has taken credit for bringing into the political discourse were already being discussed by Hillary before he even mentioned them.

[Gomez163]

6. You forget its Bernie - Fact Free since 73.

[Fairgo]

10. Yeah! And a debate in New York is just the place!

It's time for HRC to stand on her record and show the world what she's made of...right there in the middle of Manhattan, her hometown. I think it would be the best thing she could do to help elect the best candidate...

[Seeinghope]

13. Yeah Hillary explain why you were for the bankruptcy bill as 1st Lady and then against it as Senator

[Seeinghope]

16. Visa versa

Bernie Sanders ideas started resonating and Hillary Clinton started saying that " she did that too". One of her latest claims was when she mentioned how she had raised all of this money and most of it had be raised from "small donations". (Hahaha, coincidentally, just like Bernie does and says). Of course the statement was fact checked and found to be untrue.

Truth to the Clintons do not matter when it comes to getting in the way to their ambitions.

[Seeinghope]

19. He marched with MLK, he talked against communism, equal rights, poor and middle class

before the Clintons left Arkansas. What are you talking about? You obviously haven't witnessed the famous history of the Clintons and the Hillary Clinton flip flops from 1st lady to Senator to Secretary of State. An amazing transformation from actually fighting for human rights to abusing human rights ...when you send small children back to a brutal war torn country. A country that you helped destabilise .

[CalvinballPro]

20. Try again. The Sanders campaign itself has never claimed he "marched with MLK", so stop.

He also praised communist leaders in Latin and South America, so I'm not sure where you get "talked against communism" from either.

[Seeinghope]

22. Sorry but he did

[CalvinballPro]

23. Thoroughly debunked.

http://www.snopes.com/sanders-mlk-selma-march/

[Seeinghope]

37. This link shows what Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton stood for back then

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/yxUMH4S

[Seeinghope]

33. That is the problem with people you either have to be the boogey man or the 2nd coming

He didn't praise Castro on all of his politics. He talked about the improvements in education and medicine. Is that so horrible? Just because he said something positive doesn't mean he is in favor of everything that he does. This is just the kind of crap that people jump on to make Hillary Clinton look good and Bernie Sanders look bad. It is just too bad that people have to be so narrow minded.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

54. He called out Chris Hayes on calling him a communist.

I'm sure Chris is not the first whippersnapper to try that one. Chris asked him about normalizing relations with Cuba and how much Bernie liked Cuba. He said "Stop with the red-baiting". He pointed out that it was a dictatorship, it did not have freedom of the press, it was a very poor country, but they had done quite well on literacy (I think it's 100%) and they had excellent health care, and they sent doctors to many places that needed doctors badly.

So Bernie separated clearly what he liked and did not like about Cuba. Excellent shutdown.

[Jefferson23]

4. What'sa matta you, hey..Hillary come on..BRING IT. K&R

[Seeinghope]

12. Yeah Hillary and bring the transcripts from your speeches to Goldman Sachs

[rhett o rick]

31. I've seen the transcripts and they only say, "I will not regulate banks".

I think those where her transcripts.

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40. Followed up with...

'....I disagree with President Obama's positions on almost all of WallSt./banking restrictions, including foreign and domestic issues as well as the very extreme positions of Elizabeth Warren.........things will become much more business/bank friendly once I'm elected as your president......so Lloyd and others, please come on out and support my nomination and bring along your donations so I can continue to protect all of your best interests....'

[rhett o rick]

44. I agree up to a point. I doubt the rofl emoticon was included in her speech. Maybe a cackle.

Just sayin'.

[dragonfly301]

14. If she loses Wisconsin

she'll be looking to debate.

[rhett o rick]

36. I don't agree. I think he looks good in debates. She is always scrambling to try

to show him up and has always failed. I think Karl Rove will advise her to keep her head down and let the Swift Boating continue.

[jwirr]

32. And now is the time to let TYT moderate it. We have been

watching mainly conservative moderators so far. Time for a change.

[Seeinghope]

35. It would be fair to let the candidates each choose one of the moderators.

This way it would be fairer for the two of them..... No questions.

[jwirr]

39. That isn't a bad idea either - too bad it has not been used

in all the debates.

[Seeinghope]

41. Just remember Bernie Sanders was fighting for CIVIL RIGHTS while Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater

GIRL

[NWCorona]

50. With today's developments, April 19th seems a long ways out.

[dana_b]

57. Hillary says : Anytime, anywhere

https://twitter.com/PittsBern/status/714538143396061184