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Supporters as well critics of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont were united this week when a Vermont newspaper confirmed that Sanders had purchased a third home on Lake Champlain. People took to Twitter voicing concerns, many of whom asked how a socialist would spend so extravagantly.
Fresh off the presidential campaign trail, the self-described Democratic socialist bought a seasonal waterfront home on Lake Champlain in North Hero, Vermont, for $575,000. A Sanders spokesman says the senator and his wife Jane also own a row house in Washington, D.C., and a home in Burlington, Vermont.
Hillary Clinton has retained most of the bounce she received after the Democratic National Convention and now enjoys a 6-point lead over Donald Trump in a two-way contest among likely voters. The Democratic presidential nominee's advantage in a new Bloomberg Politics national poll is smaller than in some surveys conducted the week after her convention, including some that sampled registered voters, a broader group.
The Democratic candidate for congress is on the ballot facing off against longtime incumbent Ron Kind on Tuesday in western Wisconsin. Buchholz said the allegiance he has to Bernie Sanders and the Vermont Senator's ideas could really help him at the polls.
A former Ohio state lawmaker and secretary of state candidate who campaigned for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary says she's endorsing the party's platform and the people because "it's not about the individual." Nina Turner tells The Columbus Dispatch there's too much of a focus on individuals instead of how to take America "to the next level."
Jill Stein nabbed the Green Party nomination for her second presidential bid on Saturday, after running in 2012. She hopes the wave Sanders supporters will help make her a viable third-party challenger.
A supporter of Green Party candidate Jill Stein holds a doctored Bernie Sanders sign at a rally at City Hall in Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention last month. At the Green Party national convention in Houston, Bernie Sanders may have been mentioned more often so far than the party's own presumptive nominee, Dr. Jill Stein.
Bernie Sanders sent shock waves through the Democratic Party last May when he formally endorsed then- DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz's primary opponent. Months later, Wasserman Schultz's resignation from the top party post , on the eve of the party's national convention, has again catapulted her primary race back into the national headlines.
Former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz listens as Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton delivers her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Thursday, July 28, 2016. Democratic National Committee CEO Amy Dacey has resigned amid the controversy over the release of a cache of hacked emails from the committee, according to a Democrat familiar with the matter.
Donald Trump 's eating habits were the talk of Twitter after the GOP nominee shared of a photo of himself digging into some chicken from KFC with silverware on his private jet. After a day on the campaign trail, Trump picked up what looks like an eight-piece bucket meal with a side of mashed potatoes and gravy to feast on during travel.
Mechanicsburg, Pa. a Donald Trump launched a familiar attack against Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday, saying the lawmaker from Vermont made an arrangement that he shouldn't have when he decided to support Hillary Clinton for president.
After attending the unusually raucous and divided National Republican Convention in Cleveland, I expected a reasonably sedate coronation of Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Maybe I should have known better.
To understand what the Kremlin thinks about the prospect of Hillary Clinton becoming the U.S. president, it was enough to watch Russian state television coverage of her accepting the Democratic nomination. Viewers were told that Clinton sees Russia as an enemy and cannot be trusted, while the Democratic Party convention was portrayed as further proof that American democracy is a sham.
In a week filled with stirring speeches and standout moments at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, picking the biggest was easy for Sen. Don Davis, D-Greene, a delegate to the event. Toward the end of the call from each state, Vermont Senator and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders moved to suspend the rules and move forward with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the official party nominee.
Former Orange County Democratic Chairman Jonathan Jacobson gushed about the Democratic National Convention on Friday as he returned from it, calling it the most successful of the 11 presidential conventions he's attended in spite of the sharp party split that carried from the primary season into the four-day gala in Philadelphia. Jacobson, who was a delegate for Hillary Clinton, praised the acceptance speech she had given the previous night, saying Clinton had laid out a positive message while establishing a “clear contrast” with Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.
The Democrats have pulled out of Philly so it's time for our quadrennial list of convention winners and losers: Bernie Sanders : Every Democrat had to praise him because he did so well in their primaries - even though he's not a Democrat. Patriotism : It's back, baby, thanks to the way the Democrats recast loving your country as loving its values and working to make us live up to them as opposed to picking and choosing the one's you like.
Hillary Clinton made history on Thursday night, becoming the first woman to accept the presidential nomination of a major political party - and it was a long time coming. In response, "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert went back to 1776 to see how two women delegates at the Second Continental Congress felt about the milestone.
Hillary Clinton capped off a four-day convention celebration with a plea for national unity and tolerance. Now, one of the most divisive and distrusted figures in American political life must convince voters that she rather than Republican rival Donald Trump can bring a deeply divided nation together.