Bernie Sanders tops Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire poll
On Saturday, protesters from Black Lives Matter took over a microphone at a Sanders event in Seattle and forced him to abandon an afternoon speech.
“I don’t know if I’ll do the fighting myself or other people will”, he said at a campaign event in Michigan. (Worth noting: That crowd estimate comes from the Sanders campaign so take it cum grano salis.). Sanders, his shirt soaked with sweat, said the turnout proved that “people are exhausted of establishment politics, establishment economics and they want real change”.
The 73-year-old took the opportunity Monday evening to obliquely address the incident that occurred in Seattle over the weekend, in which another large Sanders campaign rally was interrupted by protestors from the group, Black Lives Matter.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump said Tuesday that Sen.
Aggressive protestors with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement seem to have a lot of leverage with the more progressive – and more pliable – Democrat candidates for president.
Bernie Sanders is having a good week-at least, that’s how it looks.
Which is to say, Sanders’ candidacy is going viral in just the way that the Internet specializes in whipping up excitement and quickly transmitting information about a cause.
The crowd of over 28,000 supporting Bernie Sanders in Portland, Oregon. Still, according to several local media reports of Sanders’ three events, the majority of his audiences were white.
While this poll may be an outlier, it’s topline will encourage other polling firms to survey New Hampshire in the near future; and given Sanders’s lead in this poll, they will likely have to match him up with Republican candidates. You can view their takeover of Sanders’ rally in this Associated Press video.
“No president will fight harder to end institutional racism and reform criminal justice system”, he told the cheering crowd at Hec Edmundson pavilion, according to the King5-TV station. While most political observers are talking about the tension between the unions over who they see as the best candidate, this new endorsement could also been seen as an indication of how Sanders fares with women voters.
In a questionnaire Clinton filled out and submitted to the AFL-CIO earlier this year and obtained by Reuters, Clinton laid out a broad litmus test for the pact, but did not say whether she was for or against it yet.