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Autumn's JournalFORMER OBAMA ADVISOR SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE BERNIE SANDERS 'VERY SERIOUSLY' AFTER RISE IN POLLING
Pfeiffer told Politico that "people should take [Sanders] very seriously." He said that Sanders has very good chances in the states with early primaries and caucuses.
"He has a very good shot of winning Iowa, a very good shot of winning New Hampshire, and other than Joe Biden, the best shot of winning Nevada," said Pfeiffer, noting that these early odds improved Sanders' chances going forward. "He could build a real head of steam heading into South Carolina and Super Tuesday," a Tuesday early in the primaries where the most states hold primaries and caucuses. That falls on March 3, 2020, with Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia holding primaries.
Pfeiffer served as a strategy and communications senior advisor to President Barack Obama during the president's second term; he had worked for the Obama-Biden transition team after Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election. Prior to being appointed senior advisor, Pfeiffer served as White House communications director. In June 2018, he published his first book Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump. His next book, Un-Trumping America, will be released in February 2020.
https://www.newsweek.com/former-obama-advisor-take-bernie-sanders-very-seriously-polls-1479231
Bernie Sanders Now Leads All Other Democrats in Hypothetical Match-Up Vs. Trump
Sanders and Biden are both +4 in the hypothetical match-up, but it's Sanders who attracts the most voters. It's all within the margin of error still, but these results are good enough to put the lie to the idea that Sanders' ideas somehow make him unelectable. Sanders and Biden both lead Warren, who holds a +2 margin over Trump, While Bloomberg is +1 and Buttigieg (-1) is the only likely nominee who trails Trump.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/12/sanders-leads-against-trump.html?fbclid=IwAR3y2Qcpvvs3WkCmzM1CAxVCiAmWsgP0aXjJk26OYbVxcpmjNEpNHA7q4s0
https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1208871624554024960
Bernie Sanders To Hold Fundraiser Featuring Franzia Boxwine In Actual Cave
Fearing his was missing out on attracting important donors, Bernie Sanders is holding his own wine cave dinner.
I have to stay ahead of Mayor Pete.
The invitation to the gala event includes the GPS co-ordinates of the cave, though Sanders warns his guests to leave plenty of time.
Its not so easy to get to but the price is right.
Attendees are advised to bring their own folding chairs if they dont want to stand, but they will be able to feast on unlimited saltines and Franzia boxwine.
Ill be serving three vintages white, sweet red, and rose. The best part is just when you think its run out, you simply tip the box and theres always more!
Though he agreed with his advisors to hold the upscale fundraiser, Sanders does fear it could upset his traditional base.
I already bought myself a new blue sweater at TJ Maxx the other day so this could be the last straw.
http://www.breakingburgh.com/bernie-sanders-to-hold-fundraiser-featuring-franzia-boxwine-in-actual-cave/?fbclid=IwAR2f649eEPwe7otdkhmhI0rn6ByzuLqmWY8YPD2W-ORB23m9tCD2ZTrnIL0
Now that's good satire.
Jimmy Fallon slow jams the news with Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders destroys Jimmy Fallon at basketball while answering campaign questions
I loved this
Sanders Says $3.8B in Annual US Military Aid to Israel Should Be Leveraged to End Horrific
Treatment of Palestinians
"We have a right to say to the Israeli government that the United States of America and our taxpayers and our people believe in human rights, we believe in democracy, we will not accept authoritarianism or racism."
byJake Johnson, staff writer
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/29/sanders-says-38b-annual-us-military-aid-israel-should-be-leveraged-end-horrific
Speaking at a conference Monday hosted by the liberal-leaning Jewish organization J Street, Sen. Bernie Sanders expressed support for leveraging billions of dollars in annual U.S. military aid to stop Israel's horrific treatment and occupation of the Palestinian people.
"My solution is to say to Israel: You get $3.8 billion every single year. If you want military aid you're going to have to fundamentally change your relationship to the people of Gaza," said Sanders, who is vying to become the first Jewish president in U.S. history.
The Vermont senator also took aim at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who he said is pursuing a racist and authoritarian agenda.
"It is not anti-Semitism to say that the Netanyahu government has been racist," Sanders said to applause. "That's a fact."
https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1188891626933874691
Sanders takes lead in new poll of New Hampshire
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/467922-sanders-takes-lead-in-new-poll-of-new-hampshireThe latest CNN-University of New Hampshire survey finds Sanders at 21 percent, followed by Warren at 18 percent.
Former Vice President Joe Biden comes in third place at 15 percent, followed by South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 10 percent and three candidates tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) tied at 5 percent support.
Sanders has the highest favorability rating in the field at 66 percent positive and 23 percent negative. Warren posts a 63-25 split and Biden rings in at 55-30.
New Hampshire voters also view Sanders as most likable, with 27 percent liking him the most, 20 percent saying Biden, 14 percent for Buttigieg and 10 percent for Warren.
Six years. Two years as the Chairman, 2013 to 2015. The VA scandal had been ongoing.
Later in 2012: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs orders implementation of electronic wait-time tracking and makes improved patient access a top priority. In December, the Government Accountability Office tells the Veterans Health Administration that its reporting of outpatient medical-appointment wait times is "unreliable."
March 2013: The GAO's Debra Draper tells a House subcommittee: "Although access to timely medical appointments is critical to ensuring that veterans obtain needed medical care, long wait times and inadequate scheduling processes at VAMCs (medical centers) have been persistent problems."
July 2013: In an e-mail exchange among employees at the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix, an employee questions whether administrators are improperly touting their Wildly Important Goals program. "I think it's unfair to call any of this a success when veterans are waiting six weeks on an electronic waiting list before they're called to schedule their first PCP (primary-care provider) appointment," program analyst Damian Reese complains.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/05/21/veterans-healthcare-scandal-shinseki-timeline/9373227/
They were driven there by scandal. Veterans across the country were waiting months on end for appointments and the wait times were being hidden. Up to 40 veterans in Phoenix died while waiting for appointments. Hundreds never even got onto a list. And retaliation was the order of the day for those who tried to blow the whistle.
From the moment the long-gathering scandal broke into public view in April 2014, it took Congress less than four months to produce a new lawa split second by Capitol Hill standards. That it happened at all, and so fast, was a testament to the determination of Sanders and his partners to surmount the red-blue divide in American politics. It speaks volumes in particular about Sanders, who pushes for a single-payer government health system in every speech, that the law introduced a private-care option for veterans.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/how-bernie-sanders-fought-for-our-veterans-119708
I don't see why it should be a fight. Employers can offer MFA to their employees at a much
cheaper rate than insurance. And Unions can then fight for better wages for their members since insurance is offered to offset lower wages.
Joe Biden says he opposed the Iraq War soon after it started. A check of his record shows otherwise
Biden 'loose with facts' on the campaign trail
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/04/politics/joe-biden-iraq-war-kfile/index.html
Sanders, then in the House, voted no. Biden, then chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, voted in favor -- and like other Democrats who voted yes, has spent the years since apologizing for it as the conflict became increasingly unpopular with the American public and Democratic voters.
Biden, the Democratic front-runner, now faces opponents who do not have a voting record on Iraq and a Republican incumbent, Donald Trump, who too initially supported the Iraq war before turning against it, and then increasingly criticized Republican Party orthodoxy about American intervention abroad during his 2016 presidential campaign.
The Iraq issue dogged John Kerry in 2004 and Hillary Clinton in 2008, when it contributed to Barack Obama's meteoric rise, and again in 2016, when Sanders and Trump used it as a cudgel against her. Biden, who also ran in 2008, made the same claims that he's making today: He changed his mind about the invasion as soon as it happened.
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