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Supporters stick by #BernieSanders: ‘This will not end here.’
Bernie Sanders at the Royal Farm Arena in Baltimore, Maryland on April 23, 2016. (Marvin Joseph, Getty Images)
Speaking to a packed hall in Manhattan, Sanders took something of a victory lap as he reviewed the states he won and the fact that many young people flocked to his campaign over presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s. He did not mention her name, let alone endorse her as leading Democrats have urged.
“Our goal from day one has been to transform this nation and that is the fight we are going to continue,” Sanders, his voice hoarse, told supporters who packed a venue called The Town Hall near Times Square. “We have got to make sure that (Republican presidential candidate Donald) Trump is not president. But that is not good enough.”
The independent senator got standing ovations as he reviewed his campaign positions, from free health care and college tuition to campaign finance reform. Sanders urged his supporters to keep fighting inequality and insisting on “forcing open the door” of the Democratic Party to allow working Americans, not political elites, to run it. That was a not-subtle swipe at a party he complained rigged the nominating system in Clinton’s favour.
Clinton earlier this month clinched the delegates required to carry the Democrats’ banner against Trump. And Sanders this week acknowledged that he would not be the nominee.
Sanders supporters, who lined up for several blocks in advance of the speech, were not eager to hear him endorse Clinton.
Judi Gardner, of Huntington, N.Y., waited more than five hours. She’s an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and she’s sticking with him through the event.
“The political revolution is continuing,” Gardner, 69, said. “This will not end here.”
Steve Favilla, 36, was concerned while he waited in line that the hall might fill up before he got in.
“I want the media to see the thousands of people who are out here knowing we won’t get in and still showing our support for Bernie,” Favilla, an electrician from Queens, said.
Sanders has been signalling the transition of his movement from a presidential run to one aimed at bolstering likeminded Democratic candidates for Congress and offices up and down the ballot.
He was travelling to Syracuse, New York, on Friday to hold a rally with congressional candidate Eric Kingson, who is seeking the Democratic nomination in next Tuesday’s primary to challenge Republican Rep. John Katko.
Sanders has raised about $2.5 million for congressional and legislative candidates in recent weeks, sending out fundraising emails on behalf of liberals who could further Sanders’ message. The Vermont senator has raised about $300,000 for both former Sen. Russ Feingold, who is trying to win back his old seat in Wisconsin, and Florida congressional candidate Tim Canova, who is challenging Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents a Fort Lauderdale-area district.
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Bernie Sanders Doesn't Want You To Focus on Him Anymore
Die-hard Bernie Sanders supporters were lined up for blocks near Times
Square on Thursday night in hopes of making it through the doors of a small
theater called the Town Hall to see Sanders give a speech. What would that
speech be about, exactly? No one was totally sure.
After Hillary Clinton celebrated becoming
the Democratic nominee earlier this month at a rally in
Brooklyn, some people in the audience were concerned this might be
the night Sanders officially conceded from the race and put his weight behind
Clinton (he didn't), or presumptive Green Party nominee Jill Stein (he
didn't do that, either). Others thought he'd fill them in on what his
plans are between now and the upcoming Democratic National Convention. But what
Sanders spoke about didn't really matter. Because at this point in his
campaign, the people who come to a Sanders event — knowing he probably
won't be on the ballot as the Democratic nominee — are like the people who go
to Rolling Stones concerts in 2016. You're not there for the band members at
this point, you're just there because the songs still sound good.
Sanders' speech — titled "Where We Go From Here"
— quickly turned into something more like a rally – a rally for
reform of the Democratic Party. He didn't mention presumptive Republican
candidate Donald Trump until more than an hour in, and he didn't mention
Clinton once. The only mentions of Clinton came from the crowd, which occasionally
yelled "FUCK HILLARY" during applauses. Sanders spoke in
past tense about his own campaign ("What we showed is that you can run a
successful campaign without depending on Wall Street and super PACs," got
a standing ovation) and spent the majority of his highly energetic
speech highlighting problems around America that he'd like to see fixed.
He spoke about places around the country he's been — places like a Native
American reservation in North Dakota where a large percentage of the population
struggles with alcoholism, and a town in California where the water that comes
from the tap is undrinkable. After he brought up each of these places, the
crowd was moved to its feet with applause and chanting things like "DON'T
GIVE UP, BERNIE!" and 'THIRD PARTY!" He said he wants to
see fresh blood in Congress and in local government, and emphasized that at
this point, it's not about "me," it's about "us."
"The main point that I'm going to make tonight is this political
revolution is not Bernie Sanders, it's not about Nina Turner [a former Ohio state senator who
introduced Sanders], it's about you and millions of other people," Sanders
said, rousing one of many standing ovations from the audience. He later
encouraged the crowd to "never, ever lose your sense of outrage," and
people stood and clapped and yelled again.
At the end of the night, after all that yelling, it was hard not to
feel something.
Melissa Siller, 23, said she left that night feeling "less depressed, less
worried, more hopeful, and more empowered."
"I feel like I can actually do something to make a difference and
incite change because of what he told us," she said. She added that she's
been a Sanders supporter for more than a year, or "since the
beginning."
Her friend, Garbielle Echevarrieta, 22, agreed, and said she likes Sanders
because he's genuine. "I was kind of expecting a really sad speech, and
what I got was really empowering, really informative, and
outside-of-the-box," she said. "Just a really inspiring call to
action."
Of course, the big question on many Sanders supporters' minds is who do we vote for now? That's what
Echevarrieta and Siller were talking about as they mulled around in the theater
as it emptied out. When I asked if they would vote for Clinton if Sanders were
to endorse her, Siller said she and her friend "don't know
exactly what we're going to do yet, we're going to have to figure it out."
What she and Echevarrieta do know is that they're on team #NeverHillary. "I
don't think I could go and vote for the first woman president and it not be a
candidate that I believe in," Echevarrieta said. "It'll make
women in general look bad if Hillary's the president — she's not honest and
she's not genuine. I want the first woman president to be someone like
Bernie."
I heard the same sentiment repeatedly at the event. Dave Stacer, 46, said
he couldn't ever vote for Clinton because he's a veteran and strongly dislikes
her foreign policies. He used to volunteer for the Sanders campaign but
recently started working for Stein's. Meira Marom, 35, also said she
"will never support Hillary" for a lot of reasons, but mostly because
she doesn't like Clinton's former and current policies regarding fracking.
At the close of the event, David Bowie's "Starman" started
playing over the loudspeaker, and the crowd of amped-up Sanders supporters
filed out into the night. A more appropriate song to play, although maybe
a bit too on-the-nose, might've been "Closing Time" – both
because it was time to leave the Town Hall theater, and because the message
from Sanders seemed to be that no one has to go home, but they almost certainly
can't stay here.
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What critics get
wrong
Sanders' policies aren't about giving stuff away for free, they're
about keeping up with an evolving world economy
It is no secret that Sen. Bernie Sanders has
dominated with millennial voters over the past year, winning as much as 80
percent of the under-30 vote in some states against his Democratic primary
opponent, Hillary Clinton. All told, the senator has received more
votes from under-30 Americans than the two presumptive nominees combined (by
nearly 30 percent), according to a recent report from the Center for Information and
Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University. While an
estimated 766,425 under-30 Americans cast their ballots for Clinton,
the presumptive Democratic nominee, over two million
backed Sanders (while presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump received
roughly 800,000 votes from under-30s, slightly more than Clinton).
Commentators have drawn different conclusions from
Sanders’ remarkable popularity among millennials, but the two
most common takeaways are either that the democratic socialist’s politics
are the future of the Democratic party (and thus American politics), or that
the entire movement is youthful idealism that will fizzle out once the election
comes to an end (and thus Clinton neoliberalism will remain the dominant
ideology).
It has been hard to miss the condescending attitude
towards millennial Sanders supporters, who, according to many pundits, are
either lazy slackers who want “free stuff,” or are hopelessly naive and don’t
understand how the real world works — e.g. that money makes the world
go round and that taking a “purist” stand against special interests and
corruption (in both parties) will only help the GOP fascist Donald Trump. In
other words, young people haven’t come to terms with the reality of
“lesser-evilism.”
Even pundits who are sympathetic to Sanders have not been
impervious to ageism against the youngest generation. Consider HBO host
Bill Maher, who was an early supporter of Sanders. Two weeks ago the comedian
went on an anti-millennial rant during his New Rules segment, and while he
conceded that Sanders had won the future, he also coined his very own
neologism — “Santa-ism” — to mock young Americans who
support policies like universal healthcare and free public college tuition
(policies that can already be found in other industrialized countries).
“Let’s not romanticize socialism the way conservatives
romanticize capitalism,” said Maher. “These are economic systems, not your
first kiss…[Millennials have] gotten too used to getting shit for free” (Maher
then goes on to list two invaluable commodities that have been
largely demonetized by the internet: music and pornography).
It seems that even sympathetic voices have bought into the
free stuff straw man commonly touted in right-wing circles; an argument that is
equivalent to the conservative “poor people are lazy” talking
point. Maher complains that young people are still living at their parents
and are still on their parents healthcare plans — as if millennials want to
be completely dependent on their parents and are too entitled to go out and do
something with their lives.
In reality, millennials are the most educated generation and the
most indebted generation (surprise: the class of 2016 recently surpassed the class of 2015 as the most indebted
ever — though this record will undoubtedly be
short-lived). They also face a bleak job market, while average wages
have steadily declined for young graduates since 2000.
When Maher went to Cornell in the late seventies, public college tuition was on
average less than a quarter of what it is today in
inflation-adjusted dollars, and economic inequality was at an all-time low
(today, it is at historic highs). So while students continue to see
tuition skyrocket, they also see wages stagnating and an increasing
likelihood that middle-class jobs will be automated in the near
future.
For young people who choose not to go to
college and avoid taking on enormous levels of debt, there is an
increasingly widening pay gap. “In 2013 median earnings for young adults with a
bachelor’s degree were $48,500, compared with $23,900 for those without a high
school credential, $30,000 for those with a high school credential, and $37,500
for those with an associate’s degree,” according to the
National Center for Educational Statistics. If one forgoes a
college education in America today, the prospects of making it into
the middle class decrease markedly (other countries, like Germany, have excellent vocational school
systems that America could learn a lot from).
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Yves here. I’m running this post because, if nothing
else, it describes how presumptuous the Clinton camp is in demanding that
Bernie stop building his movement and kiss Hillary’s ring. However, even
though, by any conventional measure, Sanders has a large, devoted, and
well-informed following that the Clinton campaign wants, and may well need, to
win the Presidential election, there is absolutely no way that she will shift
positions in any meaningful way to win the support of his voters. The Clintons
and Obama have consistently kicked the left. The fact that it is a bigger left
makes no difference. Their belief is merely by being marginally less awful than
the Republicans, they will still secure the votes of people they have no intention
of representing in any way. If you want the long-form version, read Thomas
Frank’s Listen, Liberal. Frank not only describes no only how the Democrats
decided long before Bill Clinton came to office that they were going to abandon
the working class, but how the Clintons embraced the practice of attacking
If you watched Sanders’ speech last week, it’s not
hard to see why it would outrage Clinton bubble denizens. Sanders reiterated
his long list of policy positions, none of which Clinton has any intention of
adopting, and added a new demand: No TPP in the lame duck session. He not only
did not move towards Clinton, or make substance-free conciliatory noises, but
he reminded his supporters that there is almost no overlap in their programs.
His talk thus simply emphasized that there is no overlap in their bargaining
positions.
From the Clinton view, Sanders lost. He will formally
endorse Hillary no matter what she does. That was part of the deal for running
under the Team Dem banner. Clinton probably does not regard it as important
that Sanders campaign for her. The one thing she wants is his mailing list, and
I am told he will not give that to her (and even if he were to, I doubt she
would get much from it, since the success of his campaign was based on his message,
which she will never credibly adopt).
Even with a new Bloomberg poll showing that only 55%
of Sanders voters will choose Clinton and 22% will back Trump, her campaign no
doubt believe that those figures will shift much further in her favor as Sanders
fades from the picture, her numerous media allies keep pounding on Trump, and
she cranks up ad spending.
What they fail to factor in is that many Sanders
voters recognize well how terrible Trump is and still regard him as a less
dangerous choice than Clinton. Worse, the more she and her surrogates hector
Sanders for taking the high road and acting as if she is capable of dealing
with him and his movement in good faith, which means playing out the
negotiations, the more they confirm the negative views that Sanders supporters
hold of her.
By Richard (RJ) Eskow, a blogger and writer, a
former Wall Street executive, a consultant, and a former musician. subscribe to
Richard Eskow’s feed. Originally published at Campaign for America’s Future
Some politicians and commentators say that Bernie
Sanders is losing leverage because
he hasn’t conceded the primary to Hillary Clinton. To believe that is to
misunderstand both the candidate and his supporters. Sanders received a mandate
in “defeat” that most politicians never achieve in victory.
The calls to surrender reached a fever pitch before
the last primary even ended. We were told that Sanders was being stubborn, that
he was rapidly losing influence. It was even said that all of the convention’s
prime-time speaking spots would be taken if he didn’t concede soon, as if they
were reservations at Nobu and he had no pull with the maître d’.
If Bernie were denied a prime-time slot at the
convention, chaos would ensue. You can be sure that whenever and however the
deal is struck, they’ll make room for him at a peak viewing hour.
The Clinton team’s impatience is understandable, even
if it lacks a certain grace. But they’re misreading both Sanders’ nature and
the nature of the negotiations now underway. So is the New York Times’ Nate
Cohn, who tweeted:
That thought experiment would make sense in a typical
primary campaign. But this year is different. Even without context, the raw
numbers are impressive.
Leverage? As New Yorkers used to say, I got your
leverage right here:
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12 million votes
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Victory in 22 states
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45 percent of pledged delegates
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A history-making small-dollar fundraising campaign that outraised his
well-heeled opponent
And all while facing one of the most powerful
Democratic clans in history, rejecting big-money donors, and challenging one of
the most famous people in the world as a leftist outsider.
Leverage? Consider the trend line: Twelve months ago
Bernie Sanders was all but unknown nationally. He didn’t fit the typical
“politician” profile in age, style or rhetoric. He was a self-described
democratic socialist. And he faced overwhelming obstacles erected by the party
machinery at all levels.
Memories are short. When Sanders announced his run in
April 2015, FiveThirtyEight‘s
Harry Enten said he was “almost certainly not going to be the Democratic
nominee for president in 2016.” Enten added, “Hillary Clinton is the most
dominant non-incumbent frontrunner in modern primary history.”
“It would take a truly special candidate to defeat
her,” he continued, “and Sanders … is not the politician for the job.”
That was what pretty much everyone thought. Look what
happened.
There’s no need to relitigate all the roadblocks
Sanders faced, at least not now. It’s enough to say that the success he
achieved, against overwhelming odds and “the most dominant non-incumbent
front-runner in modern primary history,” affirms the power of his message.
Sanders also won the hearts of Democratic voters—more
so than his opponent, in fact, despite her thirty-year head start. A recent
Gallup poll found
that Sanders “continues to be significantly more popular than Hillary Clinton,”
among members of the party he only joined last year.
Sanders’ current net favorable rating among Democrats
is 13 points higher than Clinton’s, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.
The same poll found that 75 percent of Democrats want him to play a “major”
role in their party. (Surprisingly, 44 percent of Democrats polled wanted
Sanders to run as an independent, a fact that should give the Clinton team
pause.)
And Sanders’ stunning margins among young voters tell
us that he isn’t just speaking for a large percentage of the Democratic Party’s
voters. He also speaks for its future.
Clinton needs his supporters. As Nate Silver noted
last month, “her lack of support from Sanders voters is harming her general
election numbers.” A YouGov/Economist poll in
late May found that “Only half (50 percent) of Sanders supporters pick Clinton
over Trump in the general election trial heat.”
While those numbers are likely to keep falling, these
voters can’t be handed off to Clinton and her party like a football. They are
deeply skeptical about her, and not without reason. It will take concessions to
win their support. And those concessions—especially on popular issues like
tuition-free higher education, Wall Street reform, and Social Security—will
make the Democrats a stronger party.
I have no inside information, but it seems pretty
obvious that Bernie Sanders isn’t positioning himself for another run. He’s not
being stubborn, he’s negotiating. Nobody concedes while the negotiations are
still going on. His negotiating partners should stop demanding that he fold his
cards before the dealing’s done.
They should also understand that they’re not just
dealing with a candidate. They’re also talking to the representative of a
movement, one that could decide the fate of this election and the future of
their party.
As leverage goes, that’s about as good as it gets.
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Canadians Choose Bernie Sanders For U.S. President In Online Poll
If it were up to Canadians, the United States would be calling Bernie Sanders Mr. President come November.
A poll by Finder.com asked respondents in nine countries who they would choose for U.S. President. Results released Tuesday show every country except Canada chose former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
(Graphic by Finder.com)
Sanders was the most popular candidate among Canadians by a slim margin, only about two per cent more than Clinton. Interestingly enough, suburban Canadians chose Sanders more often than those polled in urban areas.
Let's not forget about presumptive Republican nominee and reality star Donald Trump.
Fourteen per cent of Canadians selected Trump as their fantasy presidential pick. Mexicans were least likely to chose Trump, unsurprising considering the comments he made in the past.
Tuesday's primary results showed the Sanders campaign won in West Virginia, giving his candidacy a new surge against frontrunner Clinton.
The online survey was conducted among 18,256 people around the world between April 21-27. The minimum sample size for each country was 2,000.
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