Tag Archives: Bernie Sanders

From Manchester’s NBC affiliate: It’s not an earthquake, yet. But the political ground in New Hampshire is moving. We’re seeing more of Iowa’s impact, and the war of words underway here. Hillary Clinton is coming back; and Marco Rubio is coming up. Donald Trump stays in first, with 36%; Rubio takes over second place, with 15%. Ted Cruz, now in …

The Democratic presidential town hall begins shortly in New Hampshire. Anderson Cooper will moderate and CNN is live-streaming their coverage although you’ll need your cable provider login. Embedded below is a bootleg live-stream from YouTube. Watch along with us and weigh in as Bernie and Hillary jab with their increasingly sharp elbows.

Bernie Sanders this morning announced that he’s agreed to debate Hillary Clinton on Thursday night. The Hill reports: “The answer is yes,” the independent Vermont senator said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” when asked if he would participate in the Thursday night debate. “You know that I have always wanted more debates,” Sanders added. Sanders’ campaign maintained on Tuesday that he …

The Hill reports: The chairman of Iowa’s Democratic party is declaring Hillary Clinton the caucus winner, despite the razor-slim margin separating her from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). “Tonight we saw an historically close Iowa Democratic Caucus that featured one of our strongest turnouts ever and passion and energy from Democrats all across our state,” said Chairwoman Andy McGuire in a …

There was no clear winner when I finally crashed at 2AM and we still don’t have one this morning. CBS News reports: Monday’s all-important Democratic caucuses in Iowa ended in a virtual tie. A statement from the party’s leader called the finish between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders “historically close,” but didn’t declare a winner. Dr. Andy McGuire said Clinton …

Turnout is reportedly high in Iowa tonight, which could be good news for the Sanders and Trump campaigns. Embedded below are two live streams of the proceedings and we should begin hearing results within the hour. Watch along with us.

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Earlier today, Alex Jones spoke with InfoWars reporter Richard Reeves about the upcoming Iowa caucus, with Reeves saying he’d “love nothing better than to see Bernie Sanders take a victory here in Iowa.” “I agree, he would be great to defeat,” Jones responded. “But I don’t want to be put in his forced …

The Iowa caucuses begin at 7pm local time and I’ll be blogging late tonight as things shake out. Make your predictions below. Here’s how the caucuses work: Unlike in primary states, Iowa voters don’t simply step into a private booth, check some boxes and go home. Instead, they go to community centers, schools and firehouses, where they essentially have a …

Yesterday thousands of Bernie Sanders supporters gathered in Manhattan’s Union Square and then marched down Broadway to Zuccotti Park, the location of 2011’s Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. Similar marches took place yesterday in about three dozen cities around the country to little to no mention by the press, including the New York Times, which yesterday endorsed Hillary Clinton. The video …

Via Bloomberg Politics: Hillary Clinton is holding onto a slim lead over Bernie Sanders in Iowa as Democrats prepare for Monday’s caucuses, though an outpouring of young voters and those who say the system is rigged could enable Sanders to pull off an upset, according to a new poll. Clinton leads Sanders, 45 percent to 42 percent, in a Bloomberg …

Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade: Days after the Human Rights Campaign endorsed Hillary Clinton in her bid for the White House, same-sex couples that sued for the right to marry in Kentucky announced they’re behind Bernard Sanders. One of the couples is Timothy Love and Larry Ysunza, who were plaintiffs in the Love v. Beshear lawsuit seeking the …

Bernie Sanders would not only be the nation’s first Jewish president, he would be – by most measures – the least religious. Yesterday the Washington Post published an examination of Sanders’ faith and its place in the historical context of other presidents. An excerpt: Sanders said he believes in God, though not necessarily in a traditional manner. “I think everyone believes …

It’s really going down to the wire in Iowa. The Hill reports: A new poll shows Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) running neck-and-neck among likely Democratic caucusgoers in Iowa. Clinton has 48 percent support, compared to Sanders’s 45 percent in the Hawkeye State, within the margin of error of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. Sanders widened his …

Tonight at 9PM Eastern the three Democratic presidential candidates will hold a town hall meeting at Iowa’s Drake University. The event will be moderated by CNN New Day anchor Chris Cuomo and can be viewed on CNN Go although your cable provider login will be required. YouTube live stream below. Watch along with us and weigh in.

The Sun-Times reports: A crowd at a Bernie Sanders’ event in Iowa Monday witnessed a woman break down in tears as she described what life is like living on just $12,000 a year, prompting the senator to try to console the emotional woman. At the event in Iowa Falls, the Vermont senator asked the crowd if anyone knew what it …

Via Morning Consult: Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a ways to go if he wants to win as a third-party candidate for president. According to a new Morning Consult poll, Bloomberg, an independent, gets just 12 percent of voters when competing in a three-way race with the Democratic underdog candidate Bernie Sanders and Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. …

This nonsense has been going on for a couple of days and I’ve ignored it until now because it’s just such a dumb argument. Anyway, yesterday afternoon Hillary Clinton took to CNN to respond. Video is below. Via CNN: Hillary Clinton on Thursday sought to turn Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “establishment” attack right back on him — saying he served in …

Via the Washington Post: As Hillary Clinton closes in on the final days of campaigning in Iowa, she launched a new broadside against her principal Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), over his inability to advance a single-payer health-care plan throughout his decades in Congress. “Senator Sanders has been in Congress for 25 years,” Clinton said at a rally at …

CNN reports: Donald Trump holds a commanding lead in Iowa as Sen. Bernie Sanders takes control of the Democratic race in the critical first-in-the-nation voting state, according to a new CNN/ORC poll released Thursday. Trump leads Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who is in second place in the GOP race, among likely Republican caucus-goers, 37% to 26%. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, …

Set to a 50 year-old Simon & Garfunkel song, Bernie Sanders’ new campaign ad aims squarely at the heartland. Via Politico: The ad features the Simon and Garfunkel staple playing over footage of quotidian scenes of Americana: windmills blowing across a wintry landscape, tugboats sitting on a dock, farmers at work, city-dwellers in cafés, a father and daughter walking through …