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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Bernie Sanders
Leader of the Bernie Bros Influenced The Election During the first half of 2016, America was Feeling the Bern. Bernie Sanders, 75, rose to become a surprisingly formidable opponent to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries, speaking truth to power in his Brooklyn Jewish accent all across America. Again and again, primaries and polls came…
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News Will Bernie Sanders Try Again in 2020? His Backers Say He Could’ve Beaten Donald Trump
Bernie 2020? Why not. The Jewish Vermont senator, the progressive champion who lost the presidential primary race to Hillary Clinton, is one the first senior Democrats to bounce back after November 8 and plot a way forward for the embattled party. Sanders is pushing to clean house at the Democratic Party to correct what he…
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Breaking News Bernie Sanders Says Ready To Work with Donald Trump — on Some Things
— Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he is ready to work with President-elect Donald Trump on issues that help working families. But the independent senator from Vermont said he will oppose other policies championed by Trump. Trump “tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics…
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Breaking News Bernie Sanders Has ‘Nothing Polite to Say’ After Donald Trump Win
Bernie Sanders set aside his grievances with Hillary Clinton during the general election, crisscrossing the nation on behalf of his ex-primary rival. He’s keeping his silence, though, in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the November election. “We have nothing polite to say,” Sanders adviser told CNN’s Jeff Zeleny on Wednesday, refusing to…
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The Schmooze 7 Funny Jewish Moments That Will Make Your Election Anxiety Go Away
At this point, there’s nothing really funny about this election cycle. But there are a few topical gems that we thought were worth sharing—guaranteed for a smile or two (or at the very least some much needed entertainment while waiting in the voting line). That time this Trump surrogate mixed up “Molotov cocktails” with “mazel…
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Breaking News Bernie Sanders to Coke, Pepsi: I’m No Soda Shill
Coke and Pepsi are feeling the Bern this week, and not in a good way. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders demanded in a cease and desist letter that the behemoth corporations stop using him in their ads against soda taxes in San Francisco and Oakland. “Advertising from the American Beverage Association that implies that I oppose…
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Breaking News Bernie Sanders’ Brother Crushed in British Parliamentary Election
Former Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ elder brother lost badly in his race to be elected to the British parliament. Larry Sanders was running as the Green Party candidate for the vacated House of Commons seat of former prime minister David Cameron in Witney, in the southern English countryside near Oxford. He came fourth out…
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News Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Spar Over Who’s More Like Bernie (That’s Right, Sanders)
Bernie Sanders was probably the most popular politician in Wednesday night’s debate. So popular, in fact, that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump found themselves fighting to align themselves with the statements of the rumpled Jewish liberal from Vermont. It was Clinton who first sought to side with Sanders, whom she fiercely battled for months during…
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