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The Schmooze Bernie Sanders Is Suddenly A Fashion Icon — And He’s Bewildered
Bernie Sanders: U.S. Senator, former presidential candidate…fashion icon? Paris Fashion Week felt the bern back in January, when Balenciaga models strutted down the runway in Bernie-inspired attire. The designer’s fall collection included an array of flannel shirts, windbreakers and untucked dress shirts, each adorned with logos inspired by Sanders’ campaign name design. Balenciaga Men Fall…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Calls Trump a ‘Good Showman’ — and a Hypocritical ‘Fraud’
Bernie Sanders grudgingly praised President Trump as a telegenic “showman” on Sunday — but slammed him as a con artist who is selling out working class voters who helped him win election. “I don’t mean to be disrespectful (but) this guy is a fraud,” Sanders told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”…
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Fast Forward Its Sanders vs. Cruz, With Tapper as the Referee, on Obamacare
It’s the debate that never happened during the election season, but next week former presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz will throw down in a CNN town-hall meeting on the future of Obamacare. Moderated by chief political correspondent Jake Tapper, the debate will take place in front of a live audience next Tuesday at…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Says Trump Isn’t ‘Draining Swamp’ With Billionaire Cronies Running Show
Bernie Sanders attacked Donald Trump on Sunday for breaking his promise to end corruption in Washington, D.C. by seating at his inauguration a coterie of wealthy donors. “I found it somewhat amusing that Mr. Trump, President Trump, was punching the establishment,” the Vermont senator told John Dickerson of CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “But right behind…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Bernie Tells Supporters to Keep Their “Eyes on the Prize” On Inauguration Day
In a typically unpolished video posted on Twitter Friday morning, Senator Bernie Sanders exhorted his supporters to continue to “fight back.” “Our job is to keep our eyes on the prize, and the prize is that we will continue fighting for a government that represents all of us,” Sanders said. Shortly after the video went…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Prints Up Giant Trump Tweet To Defend Obamacare
Bernie Sanders had a giant poster of a Trump tweet printed up and lugged to the Senate floor, where he used it to defend Obamacare Wednesday. “I think it is interesting that we listen to what Donald Trump said during the campaign,” the independent Vermont senator said in an incendiary speech. In May 2015 Trump…
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Breaking News Keith Ellison Gets a Serious Challenger in DNC Battle
The race for chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee is getting tighter with Labor Secretary Tom Perez planning a run. This could spell trouble for Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, once considered the leading candidate for the job. Perez, who plans to announce his candidacy on Thursday, already enjoys the backing of 10 local party chairs….
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Opinion Sorry, Jews. Steve Bannon Is Not an Anti-Semite, and This Story Is Not About Us.
We’ve got Steve Bannon wrong. Among American Jewish progressives, the consensus is that Bannon, Donald Trump’s “strategic adviser,” is anti-Semitic. The website he managed, Breitbart.com, called itself “the platform for the alt-right,” and the “alt-right” contains within it some extreme anti-Semites, neo-Nazis and so forth. And besides, according to court documents, Bannon didn’t want his…
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