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Fast Forward Stakes Rise for Dem Debate As Bernie Sanders Closes Gap With Hillary Clinton
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Tightening polls and rising tensions between White House rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders could fuel a fiery Democratic debate on Sunday, their last face-to-face encounter until Iowa kicks off the presidential nominating race in two weeks. The leading Democratic contenders stepped up their attacks on each other during the past week,…
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Fast Forward As Bernie Sanders Surges in Polls, Are Jews Feeling ‘the Bern’?
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Talk of a Bernie Sanders presidency has suddenly become a lot more serious. Recent polling shows the independent Vermont senator and Democratic presidential hopeful dramatically improving his prospects in the first two primary states against front-runner Hillary Clinton. Two polls out this week — by the Des Moines Register and Quinnipiac University…
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Fast Forward VIDEO: Jewish Man, Muslim Woman Booted From Donald Trump Rally
A Muslim woman and a Jewish immigration lawyer were booted from a Donald Trump rally in South Carolina Friday night for standing in silent protest. Both Rose Hamid and Marty Rosenbluth wore yellow Holocaust stars of David with the word “Muslim” written on them to protest what they say is the Republican candidate’s spread of…
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Fast Forward Is Michael Bloomberg Considering a 3rd-Party 2016 Presidential Run?
Here we go again. For the past few presidential campaign cycles, Michael Bloomberg has flirted with the idea of running for commander-in-chief — and 2016 apparently is no different. The New York Times reported the former New York City mayor commissioned a poll in December to see how he would fare in a three-way race…
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Fast Forward VIDEO: Is Marco Rubio Really Outraged by US Spying On Israel?
(JTA) — Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has made seemingly contradictory statements about the seriousness of reported U.S. spying on Israel. Democrats have been eager to point out the apparent discrepancy. In the aftermath of the Wall Street Journal revelation last month that the National Security Agency eavesdropped on Israeli officials, including Prime…
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Fast Forward Nate Silver Says Trump More Likely Nominee Than Sanders
Respected statistician Nate Silver said the chance of Jewish Sen. Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination are close to zero. Silver, the Jewish editor of the FiveThirtyEight blog who correctly predicted the election results of all 50 states in 2012, told Adweek on Monday that Hillary Clinton should win the Democratic nomination barring…
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Fast Forward ‘Rabbi for Trump’ Gets Behind The Donald on Facebook
On Facebook, there are “Rabbis for Human Rights,” “Rabbis for Bernie” and, until recently, “Rabbis for Hillary.” Now, these groups are joined by a rabbinical flag-bearer for Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump. The controversial GOP front-runner’s fiery rhetoric about Muslims may have drawn condemnation from American rabbis and other Jewish leaders across the denominational spectrum,…
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Fast Forward Will Sanders – Clinton Data Breach Fight Explode at Tonight’s Debate?
MANCHESTER, N.H. – U.S. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and rival Bernie Sanders square off in a potentially combative debate on Saturday, one day after their presidential campaigns erupted in a bitter feud over an improper breach of Clinton voter files by a Sanders staffer. The rising tension at the debate between two rivals who have…
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