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Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday joined a number of Democrats who back reexamining the Electoral College system, following Hillary Clinton's loss to President-elect Donald Trump. Asked by CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" whether he supported a reassessment of the method, Sanders pointed to Clinton's popular-vote victory.
President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday it's "sad" Hillary Clinton is joining an effort to force recounts of votes from the Nov. 8 election in up to three crucial states. Trump tweeted part of Clinton's concession speech, when she told supporters they must accept that "Donald Trump is going to be our president," and snippets from her debate remarks, when she assailed the Republican nominee for refusing to say in advance that he would accept the Election Day verdict.
Two weeks after a crushing defeat in an election in which Democrats thought they were playing to their strengths of sober competence and tolerance in the face of extremism, a change has already occurred. Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders is acting as the voice of the party far more frequently than anyone could have imagined just a few years ago.
President-elect Donald Trump abruptly canceled a meeting with The New York Times on Tuesday, accusing the organization of changing the conditions for the session "at the last moment." The newspaper denied the charge and said Trump's aides tried to change the rules.
Gabbard, who backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, is being considered for jobs at the Defense Department, State Department and the United Nations, a source told CNN. Gabbard stepped down from her post as a vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee earlier in the year to support Sanders -- and fight Hillary Clinton -- in the primaries.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders makes a point while speaking to a crowd of 3,300 who attended his book promotion appearance Friday night at North Central College in Naperville. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders makes a point while speaking to a crowd of 3,300 who attended his book promotion appearance Friday night at North Central College in Naperville.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and President-elect Donald Trump don't see eye to eye on much, but on this they do agree: both want to re-establishment the Glass Steagall Banking Act of 1933, which separated risky trading and investment from traditional banking activities such as business lending and consumer finance. The act was repealed in 1999.
Support Migdal Ohr by purchasing letters in the Torah Scroll that will be written in honor of Rabbi Grossman's 70th Birthday. A growing number of pro-Israel activists and Jewish community figures are expressing concern that Minnesota's U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison will turn the Democratic Party away from Israel if he is elected party chairman.
Prosecutors say that when Philando Castile was pulled over in July, he calmly told the officer he had a gun and was licensed to carry it. Prosecutors say that when Philando Castile was pulled over in July, he calmly told the officer he had a gun and was licensed to carry it.
Pressler, 92, is s... Prosecutors say that when Philando Castile was pulled over in July, he calmly told the officer he had a gun and was licensed to carry it. Prosecutors say that when Philando Castile was pulled over in July, he calmly told the officer he had a gun and was licensed to carry it.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders called on President-elect Donald Trump follow through on a raft of pledges-including heavy federal spending on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and infrastructure-that he made as candidate, in the face of the Republican Congress's budget-slashing ambitions. Trump split with decades of fiscally conservative GOP dogma during his erratic run at the presidency by promising to leave entitlement outlays untouched and to sink billions into the country's bridges, roads and water systems.
They brought in 200 bags of leaves, put them into one of the foam pits, and then let customers go to town! By all appearances, everyone had a blast. We now know what police believe caused a man to fire 17 rounds into an apartment complex in Essex Junction.
South Burlington police say they were monitoring traffic on Interstate 189 early Wednesday morning when Curtis Britt, 21, of Winooski, blew past going over 100 mph. When he pulled over, police say Britt also showed signs of impairment and had a blood alcohol content just over the legal limit of 0.08.
Walter Cronkite, born this month in 1917, once said that he "can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." To use the music industry as an example; though there is now a fast-track to recognition in the form of televised competitions - spinning red chairs, that's all I'll say - a majority of music careers are still defined by the artist's ability to fight tooth and nail for their relevance.
Donald Trump is about to engage in a massive generational theft, and he is likely to use a classic budget trick to pull it off. The method is called dynamic scoring, which is just a fancy way of justifying massive increases in the national debt.
The biggest losers on election night were in the liberal media, an adjunct of the national Democratic Party. But the far-left "progressives" who had backed Senator Bernie Sanders and then rationalized voting for Hillary Clinton lost big.
Still reeling from a devastating defeat in last week's election, Democrats are beginning the process of charting the direction of their party in the Donald Trump era. With Hillary Clinton and her team staying out of the public eye, liberal politicians have begun jockeying for control of the party's future.
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has emerged as a leading candidate for the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Linda Davidson Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., picked up another high-profile supporter on Sunday in his expected bid to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee: outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid, D-Nev.
The Democratic Party's role after losing the presidential election now is to hold President-elect Donald Trump accountable, former White House aspirant Bernie Sanders said on Sunday. "He won the election.