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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Turns Down Invitation To Address AIPAC Confab
WASHINGTON — Citing his campaign schedule, Bernie Sanders said he would not address AIPAC’s conference next week, making him the only presidential candidate that will not attend the large annual pro-Israel gathering this year. “I would very much have enjoyed speaking at the AIPAC conference,” Sanders said in a letter Friday to Robert Cohen, the…
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Fast Forward Aiming for Unity, AIPAC Invites Trump, and Controversy
Washington – Recovering from a tough fight over the Iranian nuclear deal, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was hoping for a policy conference that would mend fences, heal wounds, and bridge the political chasm the Iran debate created within the Jewish community. “Come Together,” reads the slogan for this year’s AIPAC policy conference, opening…
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Fast Forward What, Me Quit? ‘Absurd,’ Bernie Sanders Says To Calls He Bow Out
WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, responding to reports President Barack Obama called on Democrats to rally around Hillary Clinton as the likely nominee, said on Thursday it was “absurd” to suggest he drop out of the race. Obama privately told a group of Democratic donors last Friday that Sanders was nearing the point…
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Fast Forward Trump Knocks Rubio Out With Florida Win; Clinton Clobbers Sanders
PALM BEACH, Fla. – U.S. Republican front-runner Donald Trump swept three states and drove rival Marco Rubio out of the White House race, but the New York billionaire’s loss in the crucial state of Ohio wrought more chaos for a party deeply fractured by his candidacy. While the Republican race remained in turmoil on Tuesday,…
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News Hillary Clinton Hopes To Run Up Score on Bernie Sanders With Jews in Florida
Florida has one of the largest Jewish populations in the United States, but the Jewish candidate in Tuesday’s Democratic primary appears to be barely a factor in the state. Recent polls have given Hillary Clinton a nearly 2-1 lead over Bernie Sanders in Florida, including in the southern part of the state, where plenty of…
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News Pastor at Trump Rally Says Bernie Needs To ‘Meet Jesus’
A pastor speaking at a Donald Trump rally called Monday for Bernie Sanders to “meet Jesus” and be saved. “Bernie Sanders, who doesn’t believe in God… Listen, Bernie got to get saved. He got to meet Jesus, he got to have a ‘coming to Jesus’ meeting,” televangelist Mark Burns said at the North Carolina gathering…
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Opinion ‘Never Again’ Means Taking Cue From Protesters and Confronting Donald Trump
On social media and over drinks, American liberals are discussing — sometimes jokingly and sometimes not — how to move to Canada if Donald Trump makes it into the White House. Between the violence against minorities at Trump rallies, the Nazi-like salutes and the candidate’s choice to tweet a quotation from Benito Mussolini, the idea…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Blames ‘Communist’ Bernie Sanders for Chicago Clashes
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Saturday blamed supporters of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders for protests that shut down his Chicago rally, calling the U.S. senator from Vermont “our communist friend.” Trump’s Republican rivals, meanwhile, hurled scorn at the New York billionaire, saying he helped create the increasingly tense atmosphere that is now sweeping the…
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