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Showing Original Post only (View all)Clinton Camp says She's Been Forced to the Left Enough Already [View all]
Fresh after Bernie Sanders' call for a "a fifty-state strategy... to plant the flag of progressive politics" nationwide, new reporting on Friday suggests that Hillary Clinton's campaign won't be budged any further to the left.
After Clinton claimed more victories in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania this week, Sanders said, "we are in this race until the last vote is cast," adding that his campaign would head "to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia with as many delegates as possible to fight for a progressive party platform."
Steps forward on issues that would constitute such a platform can already be seen in the race, observers say. As Max Ehrenfreund writes at Washington Post's Wonkblog Friday,
Forced to the left?
After Clinton claimed more victories in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania this week, Sanders said, "we are in this race until the last vote is cast," adding that his campaign would head "to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia with as many delegates as possible to fight for a progressive party platform."
Steps forward on issues that would constitute such a platform can already be seen in the race, observers say. As Max Ehrenfreund writes at Washington Post's Wonkblog Friday,
In the course of fending off Sanders's challenge, Clinton appears to have conceded to him on a couple of major economic policy issues. The former U.S. senator and secretary of state has abandoned the centrist positions she previously held on trade and Social Security and taken stances closer to Sanders's views.
Forced to the left?
This is a real Democrat???
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Clinton Camp says She's Been Forced to the Left Enough Already [View all]
Feeling the Bern
May 2016
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I will not vote for Hillary until I have seen the Goldman Sachs speeches. I see on reason to settle
brewens
May 2016
#4
I think the Wall Street speeches are hidden because she pandered to Wall Street.
JDPriestly
May 2016
#16
Hillary has held the majority of her positions since well before Bernie started running
Lucinda
May 2016
#6
We don't trust her to mean what she says, therefore we look more to the Clinton
JDPriestly
May 2016
#17
The DNC only wanted Bernie to run in order to give a little liberal pretend liberal faux finish
djean111
May 2016
#20
I doubt that the DNC wanted Bernie to run or that Bernie would followed their marching orders
pampango
May 2016
#22
She is far to the left of Sanders on gun control, he votes with Republicans
Thinkingabout
May 2016
#27