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Opinion Can Bernie Sanders Win Over Black Voters — and Crack Hillary Clinton’s Firewall?
There was a striking symbolism in the setting of Sunday night’s Democratic presidential debate. They couldn’t have picked a better place than Charleston, South Carolina. Coming in the midst of a Bernie Sanders surge that’s unsettling the once-inevitable Hillary Clinton campaign, the event had a good many party loyalists hoping to gain some clarity about…
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Breaking News Bernie Sanders Calls For Normalizing Ties With Iran in Contentious Debate
Bernie Sanders, the Jewish senator vying for the Democratic presidential nod, called for normalizing relations with Iran. “I think what we’ve got to do is move as aggressively as we can to normalize relations with Iran,” Sen. Sanders, I-Vt., said Sunday evening during a debate with his rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Martin O’Malley in…
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Breaking News Stakes Rise for Dem Debate As Bernie Sanders Closes Gap With Hillary Clinton
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Tightening polls and rising tensions between White House rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders could fuel a fiery Democratic debate on Sunday, their last face-to-face encounter until Iowa kicks off the presidential nominating race in two weeks. The leading Democratic contenders stepped up their attacks on each other during the past week,…
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Breaking News The Nation Endorses Bernie Sanders — Makes No Mention of Israel
The Nation endorsed Bernie Sanders for president — its third endorsement in 150 years. The storied left-wing magazine on Thursday cited the Vermont Independent senator’s record in opposing “inequality, both economic and political.” It had offered previous endorsements of the Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1988 and Barack Obama in 2008. “America’s middle class has melted…
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Breaking News As Bernie Sanders Surges in Polls, Are Jews Feeling ‘the Bern’?
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Talk of a Bernie Sanders presidency has suddenly become a lot more serious. Recent polling shows the independent Vermont senator and Democratic presidential hopeful dramatically improving his prospects in the first two primary states against front-runner Hillary Clinton. Two polls out this week — by the Des Moines Register and Quinnipiac University…
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Breaking News MoveOn.Org Gives Bernie Sanders Key Endorsement
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The liberal activist movement MoveOn.org endorsed Bernie Sanders for president, handing the Vermont senator important grassroots support in the early primary states. Nearly 79 percent of 340,665 members casting votes selected Sanders, an Independent, over the other candidates for the Democratic nod, Hillary Rodham Clinton, a former secretary of state who is…
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Breaking News Gabby Giffords Backs Hillary Clinton — Cites Record on Gun Control
Gabby Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was shot and wounded in a 2011 shooting rampage, has endorsed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary fight, citing rival Bernie Sanders’s soft record on gun control. Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, said in a statement to CNN that Hillary Clinton is “the candidate for…
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Breaking News Nate Silver Says Trump More Likely Nominee Than Sanders
Respected statistician Nate Silver said the chance of Jewish Sen. Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination are close to zero. Silver, the Jewish editor of the FiveThirtyEight blog who correctly predicted the election results of all 50 states in 2012, told Adweek on Monday that Hillary Clinton should win the Democratic nomination barring…
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