Bernie Sanders is ignoring Hillary Clinton. It might be the nicest thing he can do for her.
Bernie Sanders’s opponent in the California Democratic presidential primary is Hillary Clinton. That’s what the ballot says, anyway. But listening to the Vermont senator on the campaign trail here, you’d hardly know it.
At Santa Barbara City College Saturday morning, Sanders spoke to a crowd of 6,000 people for almost an hour without so much as mentioning the former secretary of state. When he finally did, it was only briefly.
“I am proud to tell you that I have introduced the most comprehensive climate change legislation ever introduced in the Senate, which among other things calls for a tax on carbon,” Sanders said. “And I hope very much that Secretary Clinton would join me in telling the fossil fuel industry that what they are doing is unacceptable.”
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Meanwhile, Sanders laced his speeches with sharp critiques of Republicans, generally, and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, specifically. Barring a historic comeback in the final stages of the Democratic primary, Sanders won’t get to run against Trump.
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Sanders was particularly hard on Trump in Bakersfield, a mostly conservative city of about 380,000 that one local campaign volunteer described as “a piece of Texas in California.” Indeed, the stage for Sanders’s rally was set up in a dirt arena that more often hosts rodeos. In the background, under a temporary banner that read, “a future to believe in,” a permanent sign said, “Stotler Swine Pavilion.”
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