Tag: 2016 Democratic primary

Gore Declines to Endorse Clinton

Buck Banks

It’s still too early, in my opinion, to endorse a candidate or pick a candidate. Everybody can look at how the presidential campaign is developing and get some pretty clear ideas about how they think it’s going to turn out, but I still think it’s premature. The election is still a full year away. I think I’ll wait to wade into it.

— Al Gore “politely but firmly” declining when People asked him if he supports Hillary Clinton for the president in 2016.

Sanders Draws Another Big Crowd

Buck Banks

20,000M

Crowd that Sen. Bernie Sanders drew “in Massachusetts on Saturday as he sought to attract donors and build a political infrastructure that will boost his campaign a month after the first two states vote,” the Boston Globe reports. “It was the third-largest rally Sanders has held this year, smaller only than events in Portland, Ore., and Los Angeles in August. To put it in context, the number of people who showed up to see Sanders at the convention center was nearly three times the population of Montpelier, the capital of the US senator’s home state of Vermont.”

Sanders Moves Ahead of Clinton in Iowa

Buck Banks

41% to 40%

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) lead over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race, with Vice President Joe Biden at 12, according to a new Quinnipiac poll in Iowa. Said pollster Peter Brown: “Sen. Bernie Sanders has become the Eugene McCarthy of 2016. He is the candidate of the Democratic left, against his own party’s bosses and their prized presidential candidate, Secretary Hillary Clinton. Sanders has seized the momentum by offering a message more in line with disproportionately liberal primary and caucus voters.”

Sanders Warns Democrats Might Lose Without Him

Buck Banks

My friends, the Republican Party did not win the midterm election in November: We lost that election. We lost because voter turnout was abysmally, embarrassingly low, and millions of working people, young people and people of color gave up on politics as usual and they stayed home. That’s a fact.

— Sen. Bernie Sanders, challenging the Democratic party’s leaders to embrace his candidacy, warning that the huge crowds of supporters he has drawn may not vote for Democratic candidates in 2016 unless he is at the top of the ticket, the New York Times reports.