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| Bernie Sanders: 'Momentum is with us' following big wins – campaign live | |
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| Sanders: 'big money' for Clinton is 'obscene' | |
| Finally Tapper asks Sanders about an event hosted by the actor George Clooney in support of Clinton – costing thousands of dollars per plate. | |
| Sanders’ campaign manager called the price tag “obscene” earlier this week. | |
| “It is obscene that Secretary Clinton keeps going to big money people to fund her campaign, and it’s not just this Clooney event,” Sanders tells CNN. He says she also relies on Super Pacs, Wall Street and big drug companies. | |
| “We have on the other hand received six million individual campaign contributions, averaging $27 a piece.” | |
| “I have a lot of respect for George Clooney, he’s a great actor, I like him,” Sanders continues, clarifying that he’s making “a criticism of a corrupt campaign finance system.” | |
| “It’s not Clooney it’s the people who are coming to this event have undue influence over the political process.” | |
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| Tapper asks Sanders about how he would confront Isis, and how he would improve security to prevent the kinds of terror attacks like those the world saw in Belgium last week. | |
| “In fairness to the president,” Sanders says, “his job is twofold. Number one to destroy Isis, and let’s be clear we are making, on the military field, real progress.” | |
| “They are retreating, they have, I think, 30-40% of the territory [in Iraq and Syria]. But what the president is also trying to do is make sure the Untied States [and its soldiers] do not get sucked into perpetual warfare in the Middle East.” | |
| What about actual improvements to intelligence – Clinton has for instance called for beefed up surveillance…? | |
| Sanders gives a vague answer, saying he supports “better intelligence sharing”, including internationally and more attention to social media. But he adds that when “somebody is willing to kill himself” with a suicide bombing, “this is not so easy to contain”. | |
| Nonetheless, he says, “when you have attacks that take place, when you have 30 people” killed, “something went wrong”. | |
| “This is not a criticism of the intelligence agencies but we have to improve our efforts.” | |
| “Obviously we want to prevent those attacks before they take place,” Sanders says. “We know those people who are planning attacks against our European allies and we have got to do everything we can to destroy them.” | |
| He paraphrases remarks of the king of Jordan: “The fight going on there is a fight for the soul of Islam. | |
| “And at the end of the day it will be Muslim troops on the ground … that will destroy Isis … I will do everything that I can to keep the United States from getting sucked into perpetual warfare in the Middle East.” | |
| This reluctance and caution about intervention, he says, is “one of the big differences between Secretary Clinton and myself”. | |
| 2.13pm BST | |
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| First up this Sunday morning is Senator Bernie Sanders on CNN’s State of the Union, with host Jake Tapper. | |
| He notes that Clinton has narrowed the gap in pledged delegates to within 250. Then he asks Sanders’ whether white voters are critical to victory in the Democratci race. | |
| “I think every vote is pivotal, we are now winning state after state with the Latino vote,” he says. “We’re doing extraordinarily well with young people, and we do think we have a path toward victory.” | |
| He says that things get easier as primary season moves forward. “The south is the most conservative part of America. We did not do well there,” he admits. “We’re out of the south, we’re heading to the west coast, the most progressive part of America.” | |
| “A lot of superdelegates have pledged to secretary Clinton,” he says, but then argues “in poll after poll are beating Donald Trump by much larger margins. | |
| Sanders argues “the momentum is with us, a lot of these superdelegates may he rethinking their decision, a lot of them have not declared”. | |
| “I think their own constituents are going to say to them, ‘why don’t you support the decision of our state and support Senator Sanders?”’ | |
| Tapper: will you support Clinton if she doesn’t get behind a singlepayer healthcare system? | |
| Sanders: “I don’t think we have ever framed things in that sense. First of all I don’t want to talk about what happens if we lose. We are in this to win.” | |
| He continues: “We’re talking about real issues impacting the American people. Why is the middle class disappearing? Why is it that we have massive wealth inequality?” | |
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| Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the day after Bernie Sanders’ sweep through three western states, where he defeated Hillary Clinton by huge margins and cut into her delegate lead for the Democratic nomination for president. | Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the day after Bernie Sanders’ sweep through three western states, where he defeated Hillary Clinton by huge margins and cut into her delegate lead for the Democratic nomination for president. |
| The senator from Vermont hit the trail in Wisconsin, the next state to vote, with an optimism about his chances to defeat the former secretary of state. | The senator from Vermont hit the trail in Wisconsin, the next state to vote, with an optimism about his chances to defeat the former secretary of state. |
| “Don’t let anybody tell you we can’t win the nomination,” Sanders told supporters in Madison. “We have a path toward victory.” | “Don’t let anybody tell you we can’t win the nomination,” Sanders told supporters in Madison. “We have a path toward victory.” |
| He faces a difficult road. Although Wisconsin’s working class and white voters may find a lot to like in Sanders – possibly enough to hand him an upset win akin to his victory in Michigan – the election schedule soon swings to the north-east, where Clinton has advantages in more diverse electorates and “closed” primary elections. | |
| And the Republican candidates are still squabbling over each others’ personal lives while reporters struggle to get them to talk about substance. | And the Republican candidates are still squabbling over each others’ personal lives while reporters struggle to get them to talk about substance. |
| We’ll hear what they all have to say this morning about the race, each other and possibly the actual issues facing the US and the world. And in Mexico, some folks set fire to an effigy of Trump in a shower of fireworks and sparks. The head blew up. | We’ll hear what they all have to say this morning about the race, each other and possibly the actual issues facing the US and the world. And in Mexico, some folks set fire to an effigy of Trump in a shower of fireworks and sparks. The head blew up. |
| Updated | Updated |
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