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| Clinton and Sanders stay in a New York state of mind – campaign live | Clinton and Sanders stay in a New York state of mind – campaign live |
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| Ted Cruz raised more than $12.5m in March, his campaign just announced, the most money the senator has raised in a single month for his entire campaign. He’s been on the road longer than any other candidate, announcing his campaign from an evangelical college last March. | |
| From the campaign: | |
| The campaign had almost 240,000 donations with an average donation of $52. To date the total number of dollars raised is more than $78 million with more than 450,00 donors. | |
| “This is yet another sign that conservatives are coalescing behind our campaign,” said Cruz. | |
| “The path to victory in the nomination and winning the general election is by standing up for hardworking men and women of America who have been left behind by Washington. I am confident in this campaign’s ability to bring together all factions of the Republican Party, as we continue to unite Republicans, Independents, Libertarians, and Americans who care about our future.” | |
| For perspective, the Democrats’ numbers in March: | |
| A reminder of the scale differences between Dems and Republicans. Sanders raised $44 million, Clinton $29 million. https://t.co/yuAY47YaYy | |
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| Sanders to visit the Vatican | |
| The seat of the Catholic church has invited the man who would be the first Jewish president of the United States to speak about inequality, Bernie Sanders announced on Friday. | |
| Sanders told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he was invited by the Vatican to a conference held by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on 15 April. | |
| The Democratic senator praised Pope Francis for “injecting a moral consequence into the economy”, and championing inequality as a cause, although Sanders said they disagree on some social issues, including same-sex marriage and contraception. | |
| “I was very moved by the invitation, which just was made public today,” Sanders said. “I am a big big fan of the pope. | |
| “Obviously there are areas where we disagree on, women’s rights or gay rights. But he has played an unbelievable role, an unbelievable role of injecting a moral consequence into the economy.” | |
| He then suggested that the pope, who has reinvigorated Catholics around the world with his calls to reform the church and to generosity toward gay people and people of other faiths, is in fact more of a firebrand than the self-declared democratic socialist. | |
| “People think Bernie Sanders is a radical, read what the pope is writing!” | |
| “What he is saying is not only that we have to pay attention to what he calls the dispossessed,” he continued, alluding to unemployed young people and elderly people living in poverty. “He’s talking about the idolatry of money. The worship of money. tHE greed that’s out there. How our whole country is based on more and more and more.” | |
| “He’s trying to inject a sense of morality into how we do economics,” he concluded. “And we need that desperately. | |
| Sanders will head to the city inside Rome just before the New York primary on 19 April. | |
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| Hello, and welcome to our rolling coverage of the 2016 battle for the north-east, which has seen the kind of cantankerous chaos for which the east coast is known and loved. | Hello, and welcome to our rolling coverage of the 2016 battle for the north-east, which has seen the kind of cantankerous chaos for which the east coast is known and loved. |
| Ted Cruz was heckled in the Bronx and sang with Jews in Brighton Beach. Protesters flustered Bill Clinton in Philadelphia. Hillary Clinton struggled to swipe on the subway. Bernie Sanders struggled to remember it. And Donald Trump lurked in Trump Tower and promoted an aide who worked for a Kremlin-backed, revolution-ousted Ukrainian president. | Ted Cruz was heckled in the Bronx and sang with Jews in Brighton Beach. Protesters flustered Bill Clinton in Philadelphia. Hillary Clinton struggled to swipe on the subway. Bernie Sanders struggled to remember it. And Donald Trump lurked in Trump Tower and promoted an aide who worked for a Kremlin-backed, revolution-ousted Ukrainian president. |
| John Kasich fought an oversized sandwich. | John Kasich fought an oversized sandwich. |
| The three Republican and two Democratic candidates have entered a newly aggressive stage of the 2016 primary race, just over a week before New York votes with hundreds of delegates at stake. Clinton still leads Sanders by a sizable margin of superdelegates, but he has sharpened his criticisms in front of his home town. | The three Republican and two Democratic candidates have entered a newly aggressive stage of the 2016 primary race, just over a week before New York votes with hundreds of delegates at stake. Clinton still leads Sanders by a sizable margin of superdelegates, but he has sharpened his criticisms in front of his home town. |
| Sanders has also just announced he’ll head to Vatican City next week to speak about social and economic inequality – the favorite theme of both the Jewish senator and Catholicism’s current leader, Pope Francis. | Sanders has also just announced he’ll head to Vatican City next week to speak about social and economic inequality – the favorite theme of both the Jewish senator and Catholicism’s current leader, Pope Francis. |
| Trump also has held his lead in the Republican race, although he suffered a resounding defeat in Wisconsin on Tuesday as anti-Trump Republicans decide to love the one they’re with (Cruz) instead of the ones they wanted (anyone but Trump or Cruz). | Trump also has held his lead in the Republican race, although he suffered a resounding defeat in Wisconsin on Tuesday as anti-Trump Republicans decide to love the one they’re with (Cruz) instead of the ones they wanted (anyone but Trump or Cruz). |
| Cruz’s Wisconsin victory made a contested convention more likely, if not certain, but Kasich remains a thorn in his side – appealing to the same moderate Republicans that the Texas senator has alienated with his ultra-conservative ideas and fire and brimstone style. | Cruz’s Wisconsin victory made a contested convention more likely, if not certain, but Kasich remains a thorn in his side – appealing to the same moderate Republicans that the Texas senator has alienated with his ultra-conservative ideas and fire and brimstone style. |
| But the senator has managed a shadow campaign that is quietly undermining Trump’s lead in pledged delegates. In Colorado, for instance, the Republican convention is swaying to his well-organized team in the backrooms and corridors where party veterans learned the rules. | But the senator has managed a shadow campaign that is quietly undermining Trump’s lead in pledged delegates. In Colorado, for instance, the Republican convention is swaying to his well-organized team in the backrooms and corridors where party veterans learned the rules. |
| On the docket today: | On the docket today: |