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Her Sister

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8. so good! Thank you!
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 06:37 PM
Mar 2016
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/30/a-study-in-contrasts-how-clinton-sealed-the-deal-in-her-maddow-interview

MADDOW: — no matter what else happens.

I have to ask, though, if you have thought about whether or not you will, at some point, turn your fundraising ability toward helping the Democratic Party more broadly, to helping their campaign committees for the House and the Senate and for other — for other elections?”
With this question, Rachel Maddow raised the issue that is front of mind for every superdelegate and loyal Democratic Party member. Does Sanders appreciate how much he needs Democrats in the Senate, Congress, and in state governments in order to achieve even a fraction of his ambitious agenda? Bernie's ultimate response, after some prodding by Rachel, was honest but deadly.
“SANDERS: Well, right now, Rachel, as you are more than aware, our job is to — what I’m trying to do is to win the Democratic nomination. And I’ll tell you something, I never in a million years, Rachel, would have believed that we could have, uh, received over six million individual campaign contributions averaging 27 bucks apiece, a very different way of raising money than Secretary Clinton has pursued.

So right now, we are enormously appreciative. You’re right, without that type of support, we would not be where we are right now. We would not be able to continue this campaign to the Democratic convention. So I am just blown away and very appreciative of all of the kind of support that we have gotten from grassroots America.

MADDOW: Well, obviously your priority is the nomination, but I mean you raised Secretary Clinton there. She has been fundraising both for the nomination and for the Democratic Party. At some point, do you think — do you foresee a time during this campaign when you’ll start doing that?

SANDERS: Well, we’ll see. And, I mean right now, again, our focus is on winning the nomination. Secretary Clinton has access, uh, to kinds of money, uh, that we don’t, that we’re not even interested in. So let’s take it one step at a time. And the step that we’re in right now is to win the Democratic nomination.”
If it may please the court, allow me to place into evidence a news report from November of last year.

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