March 13, 2016

Face the Nation: Bernie Sanders on Trump rallies, health care and more (video)

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders believes Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric is not good for the country. “I very much hope that he understands that in a democracy, people should be allowed to go to anybody's rally, and peacefully demonstrate without fear of being beaten up,” the Vermont Senator says. “So I really hope he tones it down.”

March 13, 2016

Sen.Sanders to hold a a campaign rally Monday at PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to visit Charlotte on Monday, a few hours ahead of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Queen City.

Sanders’ campaign announced Saturday that the Vermont senator will be at PNC Music Pavilion for a late afternoon rally. Entry to the venue begins at 1:30 p.m. RSVPs are requested.
https://go.berniesanders.com/page/event/detail/rally/44hy7

Sanders visit is his first to Charlotte and comes after Friday’s visit to the Triangle.

Charlotte will be ground zero for the Democratic race Monday, a day before Tuesday’s presidential primary. North Carolina will be one of five key states, including Florida, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri voting that day.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article65696562.html

March 12, 2016

Sen. Sanders on Sunday: Face the Nation, ABC This Week

We'll talk to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgency in the Democratic primary notched a major victory this week with a surprise win in Michigan. Can he replicate that feat in the upcoming contests? And is he worried it still might not be enough to derail Hillary Clinton?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sunday-bernie-sanders-john-kasich-new-election-2016-poll-numbers/

With high-stakes contests in Ohio and Florida just days away, presidential candidates Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. John Kasich, and Sen. Bernie Sanders come to “This Week” Sunday.
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek

March 12, 2016

Seattle is Berning: We’re tops in the U.S. for per capita Bernie Sanders donations

Campaign contributions to presidential candidate Bernie Sanders have been pouring in from most Seattle ZIP codes. In King County, Vashon Island has the highest per-capita donations.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-is-berning-nations-biggest-donors-per-capita/

The Seattle Times editorial board surprised a lot of readers by recommending Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary — the only major daily newspaper in the country to do so.

Say what you will about that controversial endorsement, you can’t accuse The Times of being out of step with the city.

Seattle ranks No. 1 among the 50 biggest U.S. cities for per-capita contributions to Bernie Sanders, according to my analysis of the most recent data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the U.S. Census Bureau.

March 12, 2016

Portland loves Bernie Sanders, but Seattle and San Francisco love him more

Portland is Bernie Sanders country. No surprise there. You don't have to walk past many parked cars downtown before you'll come upon one sporting a "People's Republic of Portland" bumper sticker.

In fact, the West Coast's cities in general -- and especially the Northwest's, with their working-class roots -- love the Vermont senator.

Seattle ranks number one per capita among the country's biggest cities in donations to the Sanders cause, according to the Seattle Times' Gene Balk, who crunched Federal Election Commission data. San Francisco and Portland come in right behind the Emerald City at number two and three, respectively.

Liberal denizens of Seattle, Portland and San Francisco are hardly alone in their Sanders love, of course. Sanders' ability to inspire tens of thousands of Democrats across the country -- he's won primaries or caucuses in Colorado, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire and Oklahoma, as well as his home state of Vermont -- shows that his self-proclaimed "democratic socialist" agenda has appeal well beyond the radical left fringe. The reasons for this are obvious enough. For starters, beginning in the 1990s, the Democratic Party pivoted away from policies directed specifically at the working class. More recently, income inequality has skyrocketed, as the high-tech revolution has left behind industrial workers and many middle-class professionals.


http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2016/03/portland_loves_bernie_sanders.html

March 11, 2016

Bernie Sanders to Meet With Rev. Jesse Jackson in Chicago

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Jackson told Ward Room he and Sanders will talk "urban policy issues" during the Vermont senator's visit to Operation Rainbow Push on Saturday morning. Sanders is holding a rally Friday at Argo Community High School in suburban Summit.

Hillary Clinton also was invited to Operation Rainbow Push, Jackson said, but she wasn't available as she attended First Lady Nancy Reagan's funeral Friday before heading to Ohio.

"I have a relationship with both," Jackson said of Sanders and Clinton

Instead of endorsements, Jackson wants to focus on voter registration, something he long has been passionate about.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Bernie-Sanders-to-Meet-With-Rev-Jesse-Jackson-in-Chicago-371812282.html

March 11, 2016

Estimated 5,000-plus supporters attend Bernie Sanders rally in Raleigh

Bernie Sanders returned to North Carolina to rally an estimated 5,000-plus supporters in the final days before the state’s Democratic presidential primary.

The Vermont senator scheduled a campaign event at midday Friday at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts. North Carolina is one of five states holding presidential primaries next Tuesday. Hundreds of supporters arrived early to land a seat inside.

The Vermont senator was introduced by supporter and Democratic Congresswoman from Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard.

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Approximately 2,400 people were inside the auditorium for the rally. According to Sanders’ campaign, another 3,000 were outside listening to the speech. Some in attendance climbed trees to get a better view of Sanders when he addressed the crowd outside before his speech inside.


http://wncn.com/2016/03/10/bernie-sanders-to-hold-rally-friday-in-raleigh/


http://abc11.com/politics/bernie-sanders-campaigns-in-raleigh/1241833/

Bernie apologizes for keeping them waiting. He was talking to the thousands outside

March 11, 2016

Tulsi Gabbard gave Bernie Sanders an endorsement. He gave her a platform on war and peace

The thousands of people who have streamed to Bernie Sanders’s rallies around the country in recent days have been treated to an opening act -- Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii -- who arguably does more to articulate Sanders’s views on foreign policy than he does.

Gabbard, 34, who resigned as vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee last month to endorse Sanders for president, has been tasked with introducing him at recent events, including one here Thursday that drew more than 5,000 people.

Unlike the Vermont senator, who focuses heavily on domestic policy at his rallies, Gabbard is talking about U.S. entanglements abroad. And she doesn’t pull any punches when relaying what she sees as a crucial difference between Sanders and her party’s front-runner, Hillary Clinton

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She said she trusts Sanders to “make those decisions about when and where our American military powers should be used and just as importantly, when and where it should not be used.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/11/tulsi-gabbard-gave-bernie-sanders-an-endorsement-he-gave-her-a-platform-on-war-and-peace/

Watching her talk in NC
Wow!

March 10, 2016

Why Sanders Could Repeat His Big Michigan Upset In Ohio

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/sanders-clinton-michigan-ohio

Bernie Sanders’ upset victory in Michigan was a major shock for Hillary Clinton supporters for many reasons -- not the least of which was the prior polling that showed her beating Sander by 20-plus percentage points.

But the perils of public primary polling aside, Sanders’ Michigan win suggests it’s too soon to write the Democratic socialist and his message of political revolution off. Next Tuesday’s Ohio primary will be the next major test for him to prove he has broadened his appeal and there, his attacks on her stance on trade deals may prove equally effective as they were in Michigan.

Michigan’s neighbor to the south shares its industrial heritage, bears a similar demographic mix, and even the geography of Ohio Democratic voters resembles Michigan's. Ohio presents the same sort of electoral conditions as Michigan, and those conditions could prove just as receptive to Sanders’ criticism of trade deals.

“It has a lot of the same industry and it has a lot of the same feel of jobs being outsourced, and good jobs going away,” Michael Parkin, an associate professor of politics at Oberlin College, told TPM.

March 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders Receives Standing Ovation for Closing Remarks at Miami Debate