They also pointed to instances where she has changed her position, such as on gay marriage, the Keystone pipeline and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The “Bernie or Bust” voters who spoke with Yahoo News cited several areas where they view Clinton’s policies as insufficiently progressive, including her stance on military intervention in the Middle East, fracking, the minimum wage, Wall Street regulation and campaign finance reform. (Photo: Michael Owen Baker/AP)Ĭlinton’s campaign declined to comment on this story. His senior adviser, Tad Devine, has even suggested that Sanders would consider serving as Clinton’s running mate.Ī supporter holds a poster at a rally for Sanders in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Yet at the same time Sanders is making the case that he’s actually more electable in a matchup with Trump, he has also started talking about the circumstances under which he would endorse Clinton. In apparent recognition of this mathematical challenge and the need to begin aiming fire outside the party, Sanders in recent weeks has pivoted away from Clinton and toward Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. Nearly two months after voting began in the Democratic primaries, Clinton has racked up a lead among pledged party delegates that makes a Sanders victory increasingly implausible. (Photo: David Ryder/Reuters)īernie Sanders has dubbed his presidential campaign a “political revolution,” but some of his supporters are rebelling against the very party he is hoping to lead.Ī voluble group of die-hard Sanders backers is vowing online that it’s “Bernie or Bust,” saying they will never support his presidential primary opponent - and, at this point, the likely Democratic nominee - Hillary Clinton. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would not endorse Joe Biden.Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders greets his supporters at a rally in Seattle last week. The president also noted tensions between Sanders’ progressive base and the establishment party, saying fellow Democratic socialist Rep. The Bernie people should come to the Republican Party, TRADE!” Trump wrote. “This ended just like the Democrats & the DNC wanted, same as the Crooked Hillary fiasco. Trump has repeatedly claimed that Sanders, 78 - a party outsider much like the president - was being victimized by the same Democratic establishment that tried to derail his bid against Hillary Clinton in 2016. If not for her, Bernie would have won almost every state on Super Tuesday!” Trump wrote to his 76 million followers.

“Bernie Sanders is OUT! Thank you to Elizabeth Warren. In a trio of tweets, Trump repeated his claim that the Democratic Party had done wrong by Sanders and his legion of fervent supporters, and accused former candidate Elizabeth Warren of costing him victory. WASHINGTON - President Trump made an appeal for Bernie Sanders’ supporters to join the Republican Party on Wednesday after Sanders suspended his campaign - preying on tensions within the Democratic movement. Liz Cheney says she'll campaign for Dems, leave GOP if Trump is 2024 pick

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