Tuesday, April 26, 2016
His new goal, he said, was to arrive at this summer’s Democratic National Convention “with as many delegates as possible to fight for a progressive party platform.”
The statement came after Sanders lost four out of five East Coast states Tuesday to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Her double-digit wins in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware — plus a nail-biter in Connecticut — put her ever closer to clinching the Democratic nomination.
Speaking Tuesday night in Philadelphia, which is scheduled to host the convention in July, Clinton praised her enduring rival and reached out to his millions of devotees.
“Because whether you support Sen. Sanders or you support me, there’s much more that unites us than divides us,” she said.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016
To do that, they will have to continue electing favorable delegate slates in every state in the country — including tiny Vermont, which sends just 16 delegates to the Cleveland convention. The Vermont Republican Party has been holding town caucuses in recent weeks and will make its final delegate selections at its state convention May 21 in South Burlington.
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Clinton herself was initially gracious in her victory speech. “To all the people who supported Sen. Sanders,” she said, “I believe there is much more that unites us than divides us.”
But this triumphant politician omitted the pro forma congratulations on a race well run that winning candidates typically extend to losers. And Clinton soon segued into a dig at a rival who has clearly rankled her. “Under the bright lights of New York, we have seen it’s not enough to diagnose problems,” she said in an unmistakable reference to Sanders. “You have to solve them.”
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Clinton backer who preceded her to the podium, took a similar shot at the defeated challenger. “In New York,” Cuomo intoned, “we don’t just talk the progressive talk; we walk the progressive walk.”
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Saturday, April 16, 2016
Then came a little divine intervention.
Shortly before leaving for Greece Saturday morning, the pontiff met with Sanders in the foyer of the papal residence, according to the Associated Press. The meeting lasted around five minutes.
"It was a real honor for me, for my wife and I to spend some time with him. I think he is one of the extraordinary figures not only in the world today but in modern world history," Sanders told the AP before boarding a chartered jet to return to the campaign trail.
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Friday, April 15, 2016
Leahy's remarks came a day after federal and state authorities accused a pair of Northeast Kingdom developers of misappropriating more than $200 million raised through the EB-5 program, which provides permanent residency to foreign nationals who invest at least $500,000 in qualified projects.
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Roughly 2,000 Trump fans showed up at the Crete Civic Center and stood on the artificial turf — the arena doubles as an indoor soccer pitch — and cheered wildly when the Republican presidential candidate appeared shortly after 3 p.m.
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Did the Vermont senator “obliterate” the former secretary of state, as he pledged to do to Donald Trump in the November general election?
New York Democrats will make that call. But a critical mass of voters will likely agree that Sanders failed to sink Clinton in the battle waged in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Rather than adopting the defensive strategy favored by many front-runners, Clinton regularly took the fight to Sanders and sought to retaliate when he challenged her record and questioned her judgment. Sanders likewise employed aggressive tactics, and the two often continued sparring despite moderators’ attempts to cut them off. Each of the candidates laughed derisively at the other’s comments at various points in the two-hour debate, hosted by CNN and NY1.
As she has throughout the primary, Clinton repeatedly associated herself with President Barack Obama, whose popularity ratings remain high among Democrats. She also cast herself as a realistic progressive, in contrast with Sanders, whom she depicted as an an idealist — strong on rhetoric but weak on policy details and lacking pragmatic political skills.
“When you make proposals, and you’re running for president, you should be held accountable for whether the numbers add up,” Clinton declared. “Describing the problem is a lot easier than trying to solve it,” she said at another point in the debate.
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Thursday, April 14, 2016
Teachout, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law, is a liberal darling who wrote the book Corruption in America. She launched a primary challenge against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2014. She’s running for a seat in New York’s 19th district, which is centered in rural Dutchess County, outside Albany.
Sanders asked supporters to donate to his campaign $2.70 — a thousandth of the maximum campaign donation by an individual allowed by federal law — pledging to split the cash with Teachout.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
A longtime Clinton supporter, Leahy indicated at a February press conference that he would cast his superdelegate vote for the former secretary of state — even if Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) won Vermont’s primary. A political aide walked that position back in March and said Leahy would vote for whichever presidential candidate won a majority of pledged delegates. The aide, Carolyn Dwyer, has since claimed that reporters were confused and had misinterpreted Leahy’s comments.
Pomfret Republican Scott Milne, who has been eyeing a challenge to Leahy, sees it differently.
“Team Leahy’s flip-flop on his promise to Secretary Clinton that he was going to support and vote for her at the convention — just because the going’s getting a little tough in Vermont — is an insight into the way Washington works, the way Washington is so dysfunctional,” Milne said Wednesday. “I think it screams out that Vermont can be a part of fixing Washington by replacing our U.S. senator in 2016.”
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That changed Wednesday when Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) threw his backing behind his colleague from Vermont.
Writing in the op-ed pages of the New York Times, the second-term senator said former secretary of state Hillary Clinton would be “a strong and capable president.”
“But Bernie Sanders is boldly and fiercely addressing the biggest challenges facing our country,” he wrote.
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