DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says the “virtual tie” he has secured in Iowa in the Iowa caucuses with rival Hillary Clinton sends a profound message that it’s “too late for establishment politics and establishment economics.” Sanders says he’ll wind up with about “half of the Iowa delegates.” Hillary Clinton says…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is portraying the Democratic presidential primary as a race between Hillary Clinton’s pragmatism and experience versus Bernie Sanders’ idealism and liberalism. Obama is offering his most extensive assessment of the 2016 Democratic race to date in an interview with Politico. He says Clinton is “wicked smart,” but that her…
The scope of Sanders’ plan and its lack of detail have raised questions about its seriousness
The 74-year-old self-described democratic socialist is in position to win both Iowa and New Hampshire
The group lists 8 million members and says it plans to mobilize nearly 75,000 of its members in Iowa and New Hampshire on Sanders’ behalf
WASHINGTON (AP) -Bernie Sanders campaign manager says DNC is “actively attempting to undermine” campaign. A summary of computer logs show that four aides to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign accessed proprietary voter data compiled by the campaign of rival Hillary Clinton. And the records also show that the aides conducted 25 separate searches of…
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – Democrats have dropped a New Hampshire television station as a debate sponsor over an ongoing disagreement between union workers and management. The Democratic National Committee and the New Hampshire Democratic Party said Friday they will not include WMUR-TV as a sponsor of the Dec. 19 debate because the station’s parent company,…
BALTIMORE (AP) – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says the level of poverty and run-down housing in Baltimore is “stunning.” He’s taking his presidential campaign to the heart of the city’s riots last spring. The Democratic candidate was touring the neighborhood of Freddie Gray, who died last spring of a spinal injury he suffered while in…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump calls them a “crooked business” and Bernie Sanders says they’re “corrupt” organizations “buying elections.” But that barrage of insults hasn’t stopped the political groups known as super PACs and their donors from showing the two presidential candidates some love. A super PAC allied with a union that endorsed Sanders over…
DALLAS (AP) – Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign is launching a new offensive on taxes, saying Bernie Sanders’ health care plan would require middle-class workers to pay higher taxes. Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon says in a statement that a 2013 proposal by Sanders in the Senate to create a single-payer health care system showed middle-class…