‘New Democrats’ sound alarm over Sanders and Clinton’s leftward march
The former first lady, senator and secretary of state campaigned in New Hampshire Monday with an array of reminders of her decades-long membership in the nation’s political power structure.
Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who are challenging Clinton for the nomination, have questioned her commitment to environmental causes, noting her reluctance to come out against the Keystone pipeline.
The League of Conservation Voters Action Fund, a key environmentalist organization, endorsed Hillary Clinton on Monday in New Hampshire, touting her as the most qualified and prepared candidate in the field.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, a day after Clinton reinforced her support for a $12 minimum wage, Sanders said the next president must press for more. She’s racked up more than 120 congressional endorsements – 31 of which are in the Senate, where Sanders serves – to his two.
“It’s very easy to say, “When I’m elected we are going to increase social security”, but we might not be able to pay for social security as it is”. Seventy-four percent of voters say that she would do an “excellent or “good’ job handling the concerns of racial minorities, whereas only 51 percent of voters believe Sanders would do an “excellent” or “good” job at this”. Sanders contested the United States should look to Denmark and the Scandinavian countries, where he believes Democratic-Socialism is successfully creating income equality and a model which he feels this country should adopt to solve its woes.
Clinton, meanwhile, has focused much of her recent campaigning on issues important to minority voters, in an effort to recreate the winning coalition of black, Latino and young voters that twice catapulted President Barack Obama into the White House.
Therefore, below are 10 reasons I’m only voting for Bernie Sanders in 2016, and will not vote for Hillary Clinton or Trump.
Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead over Bernie Sanders in the SC primary.
In the first candidates’ debate, in Las Vegas, Clinton argued in favor of tougher firearm laws and accused Sanders of siding with the gun lobby.
In addition, Clinton’s negative favorability ratings in 9 out of 10 national polls make her unelectable as a candidate in a general election.
But the gap the Vermont senator faces is real and Andrew Springer, Sanders’ now-former SC communications director, recently left the campaign to pursue journalism in West Virginia, his home state. “I am back again and I intend to do everything I can to be successful this time”. Im just proud to be a Democrat and Im proud that Ive worked so hard for the Democratic party.Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, filed paperwork in New Hampshire last week declaring that he was a Democrat. Unlike her competitor Bernie Sanders, 74, she seems cautiously supportive of the medical side of legalization, at most. “I think that war is a bad mistake'”. “So that’ll be interesting to see what the Twitter users want to know from the candidates”.