Bernie

Joe Biden will face off with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) during tonight's Democratic debate. The former Vice President will need to remain calm and focused after several recent gaffes - including telling a Detroit autoworker that he's "full of shit" for criticizing him over his plans for the Second Amendment, causing some to question his…

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4843582/user-clip-joe-biden-introduces-blackface-singer Eric Zuesse Without the support of Blacks in the recent Democratic Party primaries, Joe Biden would still be the political failure in U.S. Presidential campaigning that he had always been. As the Republican political pro, Pat Buchanan, wrote of Biden on March 5th, “Before last Saturday, he had not won a single primary in…

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at The Saker Hillary Clinton, of course, received the Democratic Party nomination in 2016 and was widely expected to beat Trump but she lost to him (though she won California by 4,269,978 in the popular vote, and so beat Trump by 2,864,974 in the nationwide popular vote, while she lost all…

Eric Zuesse This is from the public papers of U.S. President Harry S. Truman in 1952: —— https://web.archive.org/web/20190404174655/https://trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php/index.php “Public Papers, Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953, October 10, 1952” [rail-car campaigning for Adlai Stevenson in N.Y. State to become Truman’s successor, against Dwight Eisenhower] Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people…

Authored by Jon Street via CampusReform.org, With Sen. Bernie Sanders now the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president, even some on the left have expressed worry over what a self-described Democratic Socialist on the ticket in November could mean not only for Democrats' chances of taking back the White House but also for…

Eric Zuesse Democratic Party billionaires continue to provide indications that they won’t accept Bernie Sanders to be their Party’s Presidential nominee, and unless Sanders can amass over 50% of the delegate-votes in the Convention’s first-round balloting (which is in doubt), those billionaires (via their agents at the Convention, the DNC’s 700+ superdelegates) will decide whom…

Eric Zuesse Joe Lauria at Consortium News headlined on February 21st, “Apparent US Intel Meddling in US Election With ‘Report’ Russia is Aiding Sanders”, and he noted that, If the story is true and if intelligence agencies are truly committed to protecting U.S. citizens, the Sanders campaign would have been quietly informed and shown evidence…

Eric Zuesse Bernie Sanders — the only Democratic Presidential candidate who is supported by no billionaire — is now clearly in a position where he has the support of more Democratic Party voters nationwide than does any other candidate. Therefore, the Democratic National Committee will likely hand its nomination to Elizabeth Warren, who is the…

Eric Zuesse On Thursday, February 20th, the top headline on the Home Page of the Huffington Post website — a mouthpiece for the Democratic National Committee to reach and persuade a largely young and female progressive Democratic electorate — was “Finally, The Real Elizabeth Warren Steps Up: The gloves came off at the Democratic primary…

Authored by Mitch Nemeth via The Mises Institute, Socialist ideas have taken a hold on some of the more progressive members of the Democratic Party, namely Senator Bernie Sanders. The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, however, may provide Senator Sanders with a reason for concern. Although 40 percent of Democratic primary voters express positive views of…