Democratic 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders again tried to dismiss questions about his physical fitness for office during Wednesday night’s presidential debate, but the issue isn’t likely to go away anytime soon.
Seattle Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, a socialist who belongs to a Trotskyist organization that wants to seize control of America’s banks, was a featured speaker at Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2020 campaign rally in Seattle on Monday.
The average of polls taken in Nevada over the past few months shows Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders with a healthy lead at 25 percent. Former Vice President Joe Biden stands at 15.7 percent, with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 12 percent and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 10 percent.
Top GOP leaders, appearing Wednesday night at the 2020 Lincoln-Reagan Dinner at the Canadian Club, gave impassioned pleas for conservatives to step up and run for office to counter liberal supermajorities at the Statehouse.
Foreign nationals, under the direction of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, have sent thousands of texts and phone calls urging American voters to support the democratic socialist in the Democratic primaries.
Sanders declared victory around 11 p.m. with 26 percent of the vote, leading former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg. As Sanders addressed the crowd of supporters, he said the results were “The beginning of the end of Donald Trump,” calling Trump “the most dangerous president” in the history of the country.
“How much is it gonna cost?” Biden asked Sanders. “Who is gonna pay for it? It will cost more than the entire federal budget we spend now. More than the entire budget. The idea middle class taxes aren’t going to go up is just crazy.”
Independent candidate Ericka Redic has announced she is running for Burlington City Council, Ward 4. She is a native Vermonter with family ties to Burlington’s New North End.
With 97 percent of the vote released in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, it appears Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg each have grounds on which to claim a victory.
At the time of the Tuesday announcement, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg had a slight lead in the percentage of the possible 41 state convention delegates to be awarded, while Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had an equally slim lead in the popular vote.
The firm behind the phone app that caused delays in reporting the results of the Iowa Democratic caucus is operated by three Hillary Clinton campaign veterans.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his first executive orders as president would undo President Donald Trump’s immigration initiatives, calling them “racist” and “disgusting.”