Sanders draws warm welcome in New Hampshire
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday gave a version of the same speech about the nation’s struggling middle class and greedy billionaires that he has delivered for the past 30?years. But two days into his long-shot bid for the presidency, the oft-repeated words amounted to something new: a barometer of frustration on the liberal left that could begin to reshape the Democratic primary.
With almost 100 people packed into the house of an acupuncturist here and dozens more craning to listen from outside, Sanders (I-Vt.) had a growing audience. And the warm reception he received suggested in the nation’s first presidential primary state there is room alongside front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton for Sanders’s rumpled and irreverent attacks on the country’s political establishment.
“My intention in this campaign,” the senator began, “is to talk about the real issues impacting working people throughout New Hampshire, Vermont and America.” To growing rounds of applause, Sanders ticked off a list of stagnating wages, dwindling family savings and out-of-reach college costs. They are all getting worse, Sanders said, because the political system in Washington is rigged to send an unfair share to the rich.
Speaking to a convention of labor leaders hours later on a mountaintop, Sanders drew more applause. He blasted a proposed trade pact with Pacific Rim countries backed by President Obama and that Clinton first negotiated as secretary of state as dangerous to what U.S. manufacturing jobs remain.
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Give 'em hell, Bernie!
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