Tag: Bernie Sanders

Obama is ‘fired up’ for Clinton as Democrats seek to unify party

  (REUTERS)  U.S. President Barack Obama formally endorsed Hillary Clinton’s White House bid on Thursday and called for Democrats to unite behind her after a protracted battle with Bernie Sanders for the party nomination. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts also backed Clinton on Thursday, telling MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was “a genuine threat to the country.” Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said it “means the world” […]

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Sanders vows to ‘work together’ with Clinton

by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Thwarted presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders refused Thursday to bow out before the final Democratic primary next week, but said he would meet rival Hillary Clinton soon to foster party unity in the battle against Donald Trump. “I spoke briefly to Secretary Clinton on Tuesday night and I congratulated her on her very strong campaign,” said Sanders, sounding conciliatory after an hour-long White House meeting with President Barack […]

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Obama hopeful Sanders will wind up campaign within a ‘couple of weeks’

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Barack Obama expressed hope Wednesday that Bernie Sanders in “the next couple of weeks” will finally concede having lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, despite having vowed to fight on through the party’s convention next month. Appearing Wednesday on the “Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” Obama said that on balance, Sanders’s candidacy in the hardfought Democratic campaign was a positive. “It was a healthy thing for the Democratic […]

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Sanders vows to stay in Democratic nomination race

SANTA MONICA, United States (AFP) — Bernie Sanders refused to concede defeat to Hillary Clinton late Tuesday, vowing to “continue the fight” for the Democratic nomination despite his rival declaring herself the party’s flagbearer for the US presidential race. “Next Tuesday we continue the fight in the last primary in Washington DC,” the senator from Vermont told supporters in California. “And then we take our fight for social, economic, racial and environmental justice to Philadelphia,” where […]

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Obama congratulates Clinton, will meet Sanders Thursday

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama congratulated Hillary Clinton on Tuesday for clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, and planned to meet with her party rival Bernie Sanders later this week, the White House said. Obama called Clinton and Sanders and “congratulated both candidates for running inspiring campaigns that have energized Democrats, brought a new generation of Americans into the political process, and shined a spotlight on important policy ideas,” White House press […]

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Sanders vows to keep up the fight

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) — Bernie Sanders, on Monday (June 6) vowed to keep up the fight in what has been a protracted and increasingly antagonized primary race that has exposed deep rifts between the left-wing and the more centrist of the Democratic Party. His rival Hillary Clinton has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination, according to tallies by two U.S. media outlets, the day before six states […]

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Clinton wins Puerto Rico, on cusp of Democratic nod

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton defeated her rival Bernie Sanders in Puerto Rico’s Democratic primary Sunday, US networks projected, bringing her to the brink of victory in their long-fought battle for the party’s presidential nomination. With 29 percent of the island territory’s districts reporting, former secretary of state Clinton was ahead with 62.5 percent of the vote, compared to 37.1 percent for Sanders, according to CNN. Victory in debt-hobbled Puerto Rico marked a […]

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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders challenged Trump to a debate

QUEZON City, Philippines – In the US, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said to his supporters in California that he challenged Donald Trump in a debate and added that Trump accepted it and that Sanders hoped that Trump will stay with it. Sanders and Trump plans to stage a debate that will sideline Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)

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Clinton declines final debate with Sanders

WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Monday rejected an invitation to take part in a final campaign debate against her rival Bernie Sanders, her campaign said. “We have declined Fox News’ invitation to participate in a debate in California,” Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement, adding that the former secretary of state would concentrate on campaigning against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump instead. “We believe that Hillary […]

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Trump romps to Indiana win, White House nomination in sight

by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Donald Trump crushed his Republican rivals in Indiana’s primary Tuesday, bringing him to the brink of outright victory in the presidential nomination race and dashing the hopes of a movement bent on stopping him. The billionaire trounced Senator Ted Cruz and Ohio Governor John Kasich, his two remaining competitors in a roller-coaster nomination race that appears increasingly likely to see Trump go head-to-head with presumptive Democratic […]

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Date by date, the US election year ahead

Billionaire Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday scored a clean sweep in the latest presidential primaries held in five key states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton won four out of five contests, with her rival Bernie Sanders taking only Rhode Island, according to network projections. Here are the key upcoming political dates, from the final primaries to the national party conventions in July, the presidential debates and the […]

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Sanders wins Democratic primary in Rhode Island: networks

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Bernie Sanders on Tuesday won the Democratic presidential primary in Rhode Island, US networks projected — a victory that prevents rival Hillary Clinton from a clean sweep in the night’s five nominating contests. Clinton is the projected winner of the primaries in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The contest in Connecticut was so far too close to call. On the Republican side, frontrunner Donald Trump swept all five primaries in the […]

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