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Showing Original Post only (View all)Sanders: We're 'fighting for the soul of the Democratic Party' [View all]
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Were also fighting for the soul of the Democratic Party, whether the Democratic Party remains dependent on Wall Street contributions or whether we move in the direction" of the Sanders campaign, he said Wednesday evening on WABC Radio's "Election Central with Rita Cosby," touting his more than 7 million individual contributions.
Members of Democratic establishment, he said, are "not enthusiastic about my candidacy and are certainly not overjoyed by the fact that we have now won 19 states and are poised to win even more."... Sanders remarked upon "a philosophical difference of opinion, a strong difference of opinion" within the party as its superdelegates decide between him and Clinton. "Do we fight for working families, do we work with working families, do we bring them into the Democratic Party or do we remain more dependent than we should on big-money interests? he said.
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Attorney in Texas
May 2016
OP
"he dumped it in a flash?" He was the longest serving independent in United States history.
Attorney in Texas
May 2016
#23
You feign ignorance but you know he is a Social Democrat, much like FDR re policy
Dragonfli
May 2016
#10
If (Democratic) socialism isn't your bag, why are you sporting the FDR avatar, bub?
Fawke Em
May 2016
#54
If Sanders is helping Trump, does that mean Hillary was helping McCain in 2008?
Vote2016
May 2016
#14
President McCain says that Hillary helped his campaign much in the same was Sarah Palin helped
Attorney in Texas
May 2016
#24
Which vision of the Democratic party do you subscribe to - FDR's vision of Bibi Netanyahu's vision?
Attorney in Texas
May 2016
#22
Big money and post-Reagan triangulations out, people and traditional Democratic virtues in.
highprincipleswork
May 2016
#27
This has been said many times before, The democratic party lost its soul many years ago!
juxtaposed
May 2016
#29
That's what voter enthusiasm looks like. If only Hillary supporters could muster even half a lather.
Attorney in Texas
May 2016
#57