Not a President for ‘all Americans’
That transition underway on Capitol Hill, Vice President-elect Mike Pence meeting with leaders of both parties.
Outlines of the battle can be seen in the early stages of the campaign for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, pitting the centrist wing of the party that has been in control for three decades – and formed Clinton’s base – against more liberal members aligned with Sen.
Democrats’ defections helped Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton and become the first Republican presidential nominee to capture Pennsylvania since 1988.
While speaking to reporters at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast, Vermont Sen. “The president of the United States should not have a racist at his side, unacceptable”.
We also have the Federal Bureau of Investigation becoming a political arm of the GOP. It would completely divide this country. In other words, Trump will have co-opted some of the most popular aspects of the left’s policy platform, and subsumed it into his own political philosophy and governing coalition.
“Please do not forget Donald Trump goes into the White House having lost the popular vote by 2 million votes”, Sanders told the crowd.
Kim Kamens, a Sanders supporter who runs a custom wood and metal design, architectural, and technology manufacturing business with her husband in Philadelphia, is eager to see change at the DNC, which she calls an “antiquated fundraising machine”. But the Vermonter said that the pressing that case overlooks the reality that the middle class is shrinking rapidly. Unfortunately, they chose to double down on a bad bet, knowing there was a good chance they would lose it all, and lose they did.
Democrats, he said, must do some “soul searching” in the coming months. These voters, the farmers and factory workers of America, were sick of the lack of action in Washington and wanted their voices heard. Inequality has gone up.
It is time for a new Democratic Party.
Sanders also pointed out where he disagrees with Trump, including the appointment of Breitbart executive chairman Steve Bannon. And I will not compromise with sexism. I said things that I should not have said.
Once we complete this effort, we can translate it into a successful message, tailored to specific areas and media markets where we need to break through and offer innovative and resonant solutions to voter anxieties.
“Right now is the time for everyone to unite and not necessarily ponder what-ifs but what can we do moving forward to ensure that what happened in the primary never happens again”, she said.
Numerous demands they make upon Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will be uncompromisingly extreme and mutually exclusive. Sanders suggested that is a mistake. Those crowds were full of people who “were exhausted of status quo politics and status quo economics”, he writes. “During the campaign he said a lot, and we will find out soon enough about whether what he said was honest”, Sanders said. “The future of this planet is at stake”.
One of the burning – though unanswerable – questions is whether Sanders could have defeated Mr. Trump in the general election.
There’s also an historic breakdown of faith in institutions-not just government, but sports, religion and Wall Street. Other Republicans who have interpreted their election wins as a mandate from voters to roll back environmental protections have hit serious turbulence.
More than a week after the results came in, and the party’s hopes of holding the White House and regaining the Senate were dashed, the answer remains unclear.
They featured interviews with white male boomers who lost their jobs and had their pensions stolen to pay for Romney’s vehicle elevator. Bernie Sanders said he may have been able to beat Donald Trump in the presidential election.
Mr. Sanders said against Mr. Bannon as the one that will bring anti-Semitic, nationalist and racist. “We haven’t inaugurated this president and we are taking about 2020”, he scolded. What about talking about climate change and if the planet survives?. Trump connected with the American people and their issues. I wish him and America all the best. Conservatives who say this is “a center-right nation” may be right in terms of who votes, but they’re wrong in terms of who could vote. “They are exhausted of all that stuff”.