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Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential runner-up Bernie Sanders was all over the TV Friday morning talking up his political revolution and tinkering with his leverage over the Democratic Party and presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton , but he dropped a quiet bomb right in the middle of one of those appearances. On CNN's New Day, anchor Chris Cuomo frankly asked Sanders what real difference it would make even if he got everything he wanted into the Democratic Party platform, and would it not be more effective to seek a position within a Hillary Clinton administration.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to supporters in Manhattan at an event where he went over his core political beliefs on June 23, 2016 in New York City. Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd, Sanders did not speak about Hillary Clinton who has secured the delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
Supporters react as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., takes the stage before an address in New York Thursday, June 23, 2016. Supporters react as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., takes the stage before an address in New York Thursday, June 23, 2016.
Bernie Sanders is not ending his presidential run, but in a C-SPAN interview on Wednesday, the Vermont senator conceded that he's unlikely to be the Democratic nominee. "The insiders wrote the rules of the game to keep themselves in power and in the money.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton made it clear to House Democrats on Wednesday that she has their backs, touting a message of unity and coordination. Clinton's primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders , has yet to formally bow out of the race .
The mere existence on our planet of the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch drives Sen. Bernie Sanders to torrents of outrage. They, according to Sanders' imagination, are the secret owners of the Republican Party, the Tea Party , and a long list of organizations opposed to the Sanders agenda, such as the political action group Americans for Prosperity.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, shouts to Secret Service agents that supporter Diana Brest, right, had been waiting in line since 2 a.m. to see the candidate speak at a rally Saturday, June 18, 2016, in Phoenix. less Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, shouts to Secret Service agents that supporter Diana Brest, right, had been waiting in line since 2 a.m. to see the candidate speak at a rally Saturday, ... more Together, Trump and the Republican National Committee brought in about $18.6 million in May, including another loan from the candidate.
Together, Trump and the Republican National Committee brought in about $18.6 million in May, including another loan from the candidate. Clinton and the Democratic National Committee raised more than double that.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton participates in a round table conversation on national security at the Virginia Air and Space Center June 15, 2016 in Hampton, Virginia. The latest Quinnipiac University poll shows Hilliary Clinton pulling ahead over Donald Trump in Florida, but in a tight race in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The decisive factor in Hillary Clinton's victory over Bernie Sanders was her rock-solid support from upscale liberals voting primarily on culture-war issues. White Democrats, in other words, largely voted along class lines.
Supporters chant for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at a state party gathering at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center. Supporters chant for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at a state party gathering at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center.
California Democrats gathered Sunday in Long Beach to certify delegates attending next month's Democratic National Convention. More than 200 delegates for Sen. Bernie Sanders , who has transitioned to a new phase of his campaign that is more about defeating Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton , are headed to Philadelphia .
Hillary Clinton may be the presumptive Democratic nominee, but the fight to unify the party and its traditional allies in the wake of an unexpectedly long and contentious primary is poised to go on much longer. The more than 3,000 Bernie Sanders supporters and progressive activists gathered here at the "People's Summit" have engaged in little open talk about Clinton, preferring instead to plot a path forward in the wake of the Vermont senator's defeat -- and questioning the motivations of the Democratic Party and the legitimacy of its nominating contest.
It's graduation season! It's that time when politicians and celebrities try to come up with witty speeches, crafty arguments and sappy words to motivate graduates as they move on to the next phase of their lives. But one Chicago-area kid has taken the graduation speech to the next level.
The Vermont senator is executing an intricate endgame to the Democratic primary that he hopes will continue to inspire the 12 million voters who flocked to him, while drawing lines in the political sand that Hillary Clinton and other establishment leaders won't dare to cross. But come January, he will face an existential test: Can his self-proclaimed revolution survive the move from stadiums roaring with adoring fans to the wood-paneled congressional hearing rooms and private political offices of Washington? Sanders' allies believe their colleague, a 25-year veteran of the House and Senate, returns to his job as a senator in Washington with new power to influence and shape policy on the issues he built his campaign on.
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., the man in charge of Democratic efforts to retake the Senate, endorsed Hillary Clinton for president on Friday. Tester, chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, frequently has to work with more conservative, red state Democrats in his home state Montana and in places across the country where there are competitive races.
Liberal White House hopeful Bernie Sanders declined to bow out of his race against Hillary Clinton on Thursday, declaring that his "political revolution must continue" and urging supporters to help reform the Democratic Party. But he stressed that he was prepared to work with his rival in order to best presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
"THE major political task that we face in the next five months is to make certain that Donald Trump is defeated and defeated badly," said Bernie Sanders in a 23-minute address live-streamed across the country from his hometown of Burlington, Vermont on June 16th. But rather than conceding defeat and focusing his energy on helping his rival, Hillary Clinton, to inflict that defeat, the combative senator stood pat on his principal mission: "We must continue our grassroots efforts to create the America that we know we can become.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Thursday in an address to his supporters that he will work with Hillary Clinton to transform the Democratic Party, adding that his "political revolution" must continue and ensure the defeat of Republican Donald Trump.