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“No, for crying out loud, no. Are we so uptight and so politically correct now that you have to apologise for saying lives matter?”

Clinton is the frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, with Sanders in second place in polling. And similar to what Sanders has been seeing in other early primary states, the massive crowd that showed up tot he Pontchartrain Center was primed to hear his populist message about universal health care, expanded rights for workers and the gap between the rich and poor. “Those are issues that do have to be dealt with just at the same time that we deal with institutional racism”, Sanders said. Among Republican voters, Trump has a Grand Canyon-sized favorable/unfavorable rating in New Hampshire of -14 (39 percent/53 percent) and a marginally better rating in Iowa of +1 (45 percent/44 percent).

Sen. Bernie Sanders highlighted his concerns for the “parallel problems” of civil rights and economic inequality Sunday in the wake of a kerfuffle with “Black Lives Matter” protesters at a conference last week. He has acknowledged that he needs to do more to reach beyond his mostly white base, and used the Southern Christian Leadership’s 57th annual conference here to reintroduce himself to black voters.

This weekend, he was far more focused. To Bernie Sanders, as I’ve written, racial inequality is a symptom-but economic inequality is the disease. “As Martin Luther King Jr. told us, we have to address both“. “After being challenged by the host of ‘Meet the Press”, Sanders set the record straight when it comes to recent political hot topics.

Sanders called on the U.S.to shift to community policing methods and away from militarized police forces.

Chris Ambrogio, a 23-year-old recent graduate from Louisiana State University, said he appreciated Sanders’s “unabashed criticism of the oligarchs controlling this country” but was less optimistic about his chances in the state. “I am not new to this and I have the scars to prove it”, Clinton said.

In light of the mass shooting in Louisiana, Sanders weighed in on gun control. The Clinton campaign says the state department will make public more of Clinton’s private emails later this week. “It’s just a question of introducing him to people“.

“When that happens, and when we all know that wouldn’t have happened to a middle-class white woman, we know that we need some serious change in criminal justice in this country”, he said.

Late on Saturday, the senator raced from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, where he was the last speaker on a long program at a gathering of the Louisiana Democratic Party.