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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Booed in Congress for Not Getting Behind Hillary Clinton
(JTA) — House Democrats booed Sen. Bernie Sanders on the floor of Congress Wednesday, sending him a strong message for not quitting his presidential campaign and endorsing Hillary Clinton. The House of Representatives session in the morning directed intense questioning at Sanders, a Vermont Independent senator, about why he has not yet endorsed Clinton and…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Platform Guru Insists: ‘I’m Not Anti-Israel’
(JTA) — James Zogby, one of Bernie Sanders’ appointees to the the Democratic Party’s platform committee, said he had been unfairly typecast as an anti-Israel activist. “I’ve just been cast as the anti-Israel guy,” Zogby, the founder and president of the Arab American Institute, said in an interview Friday in The Jerusalem Post. “People will type you.” This…
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Fast Forward Clinton, Sanders Democratic Platform Drafters Find Common Ground on Israel, Palestinians
WASHINGTON — Two delegates to the Democratic Party’s platform drafting committee — one appointed by Hillary Clinton and the other by Bernie Sanders — said the platform must reflect the hardships faced both by Israelis and Palestinians. “Israelis today live in fear of acts of terror that can turn peaceful marketplaces and neighborhoods into scenes…
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Fast Forward Sanders Says Working With Clinton to Defeat Trump Is Now the Priority
WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders told his followers that the priority now was defeating Donald Trump and the bigotry he said the GOP nominee represented. He pledged to work with Hillary Clinton to make sure that happens, although he did not yet withdraw from the race for the Democratic presidential nod. “The major political task that…
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Opinion Of Course Bernie Sanders Is Grumpy, It’s His Genetic Imperative
On Tuesday June 7, Bernie Sanders got crushed by Hillary Clinton in the California Democratic primary. Since then the pundits have been lunging at keyboards and cameras to explain why he refuses to concede the nomination race. Many focus on his personality — with the most notable attack coming in a Politico piece that describes…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Personally Set His Campaign’s Nasty Tone: Report
WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders drove much of his campaign’s bitter rhetoric toward Hillary Clinton and the Democratic establishment in recent months, according to an expose. “At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders,” Politico reported in the article posted Tuesday night,…
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News What Will Bernie Sanders Jewish Backers Do Now That the Primary Battle Is Over?
WASHINGTON — As the door slams shut on Bernie Sanders’s run for the White House, Jewish Democrats are seeking ways to bring his progressive supporters back into the fold. And the task could be easier than expected, thanks to one person – Donald Trump. “In a way, Trump’s outrageousness is uniting us,” said Isaac Luria,…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Pushes Back Against ‘Rush to Judgment’ After Hillary Clinton Crowned Nominee
Hillary Clinton has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination, according to tallies on Monday by two U.S. media outlets, the day before six states were set to vote in nominating contests. A former senator and U.S. secretary of state, Clinton would be the first woman to ever be…
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