Tag: Bernie Sanders
At DNC, Bernie Sanders Says ’Nero Fiddled, Trump Golfs’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gave a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention Monday night, slamming Donald Trump’s failure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and connecting that failure to the ongoing economic crisis plaguing the country.
To date, more than 5.4 million people have been infected with the coronavirus in the United States, and 170,419 have died. Trump’s critics and health experts alike have said that the administration’s slow response to the pandemic only served to worsen its impact and the still-rising death toll.
“Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfs,” Sanders said on Monday night, referencing Trump’s continued visits to his various clubs and resorts amid the outbreak. Continue reading.
Endorsing Biden, Obama Warns Of GOP’s ‘Major Propaganda Network’
Barack Obama has generally kept a low profile during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, but the former U.S. president broke his silence on Tuesday, April 14 and officially gave former Vice President, Joe Biden his endorsement.
Obama tweeted, “I’m proud to endorse my friend @JoeBiden for President of the United States. Let’s go.”
Obama’s endorsement comes only one day after Sen. Bernie Sanders officially endorsed Biden. Until last week, Biden and Sanders were the only two remaining candidates in the primary. But when Sanders dropped out — declaring that he believed Biden’s lead in the number of pledged delegates to be insurmountable — Biden’s nomination became inevitable. Continue reading.
Inside the Russian effort to target Sanders supporters — and help elect Trump
After Bernie Sanders lost his presidential primary race against Hillary Clinton in 2016, a Twitter account called Red Louisiana News reached out to his supporters to help sway the general election. “Conscious Bernie Sanders supporters already moving towards the best candidate Trump! #Feel the Bern #Vote Trump 2016,” the account tweeted.
The tweet was not actually from Louisiana, according to an analysis by Clemson University researchers. Instead, it was one of thousands of accounts identified as based in Russia, part of a cloaked effort to persuade supporters of the senator from Vermont to elect Trump. “Bernie Sanders says his message resonates with Republicans,” said another Russian tweet.
While much attention has focused on the question of whether the Trump campaign encouraged or conspired with Russia, the effort to target Sanders supporters has been a lesser-noted part of the story. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, in a case filed last year against 13 Russians accused of interfering in the U.S. presidential campaign, said workers at a St. Petersburg facility called the Internet Research Agency were instructed to write social media posts in opposition to Clinton but “to support Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump.”
View the complete April 12 article by Michael Kranish on The Washington Post website here.
The Memo: Russia finds weapon in US divisions
The following article by Niall Stanage was posted on the Hill website February 25, 2018:
Growing political polarization in the United States is a vulnerability that foreign adversaries are exploiting — and experts worry the trend will accelerate.
The threat was brought into sharp relief by the indictment of 13 Russians as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into allegations of collusion between Moscow and the 2016 Trump campaign.
The Russian efforts, according to the indictment, were part of a broader effort “to sow discord in the U.S. political system,” achieved mostly by fanning the flames of divisive debates already raging in the country. Continue reading “The Memo: Russia finds weapon in US divisions”
Democrats Respond (and Respond) to Trump’s State of the Union
The following article by Niels Lesniewski was posted on the Roll Call website January 30, 2018:
Handful of Democratic responses highlighted by Sanders and a Kennedy
Before an audience of students at a vocational high school in an old Massachusetts manufacturing city, Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III offered the official Democratic response to the State of the Union.
But he had plenty of company in reacting to Trump on camera.
Kennedy’s speech, which was no “Dream Shall Never Die,” made a direct reference to a slogan Democrats crafted to try to appeal to working-class voters, which was rolled out last summer.
“We choose ‘A Better Deal’ for all who call this country home. We choose the living wage, paid leave and affordable child care your family needs to survive. We choose pensions that are solvent, trade pacts that are fair, roads and bridges that won’t rust away, and good education you can afford,” Kennedy said. Continue reading “Democrats Respond (and Respond) to Trump’s State of the Union”
The Memo: Trump tries to deepen Dem divisions
The following article by Niall Stanage was posted on the Hill website November 4, 2017:
President Trump is trying to foment tensions in the Democratic Party, after new revelations about last year’s primary campaign emerged from Donna Brazile, who served as interim head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
But Democrats in both the pro-Hillary Clinton and pro-Bernie Sanderswings of the party insist that Trump’s interjections will only bring them together.
“Nothing unites the Democratic Party like Trump,” said Tad Devine, who was a senior advisor to Sanders during last year’s primary but was speaking to The Hill in a personal capacity. “If he gets in the middle, it brings us together. If he had a little more patience, he would have let the thing go for a day or two — but he can’t help himself.” Continue reading “The Memo: Trump tries to deepen Dem divisions”
Sanders and Klobuchar book CNN debate with Cassidy and Graham
The following article by David Weigel was posted on the Washington Post website September 21, 2017:
The chief sponsors of the GOP’s 11th-hour effort to curtail the Affordable Care Act will debate two of their Senate opponents, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), on Monday night — an arrangement that surprised some of Sanders’s Democratic colleagues, who learned about the debate when host network CNN blasted out a news release.
According to Sanders spokesman Josh Miller-Lewis, CNN came to the senator with the idea earlier in the week, and Sanders signed on without hesitation. Continue reading “Sanders and Klobuchar book CNN debate with Cassidy and Graham”
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz on “Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy”
From Democracy Now:
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