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| Joe Biden: 'I would like to see a woman elected' – campaign live | Joe Biden: 'I would like to see a woman elected' – campaign live |
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| The Guardian’s Lauren Gambino is in Buffalo, New York for a Bernie Sanders rally this evening. She’ll be filing later, but here’s some live updates. | |
| Massive line snaking all the way around the building for the @BernieSanders rally at University at Buffalo ! (Dad's old stomping grounds!) | |
| With 6,000+ seats, Alumni Stadium is at capacity and many more people are huddled outside in the rain to watch the broadcast on screens | |
| On sale at the Buffalo rally: beer of the 99% pic.twitter.com/BVh2Kk5zpt | |
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| Here’s a look at protesters outside the Trump rally in Albany. | |
| There are roughly 100 anti-Trump demonstrators outside his Albany rally. Cops erected 20ft buffer bw them. pic.twitter.com/jJaJr0QUjt | |
| That’s at least three times the size of the demonstrator crowd when I came inside the rally about two hours ago. | |
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| “OK question: are we going to build a wall?” said Carl Paladino, to cheers of “yes.” | |
| “Are we going to make the Mexicans pay for it?” asked Paladino. | |
| The crowd cheers yes. | |
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| The crowd is now chanting “build that wall” while Carl Paladino is trying to encourage an “Ava” chant, which is the name of a small girl. | |
| Now there’s an “Ava’s mom” chant happening, for her mother, Jennifer Oberting, known as Jennifer C from The Apprentice Season Two. | |
| Oberting is now talking about how she only heard from the campaign last night that she would appear. | |
| “It’s very overwhelming,” she said. “[But] when I look around the room, I see friendly faces.” | |
| “Trump fired me 10 years ago. He had to do his job,” said Oberting. She said her 15 minutes of fame lasts longer because of her association with the billionaire. | |
| “When the name Donald Trump is attached to your 15 minutes, it never really dies. It follows you,” she said. | |
| “There are two Donald Trumps - and maybe a few more,” she said. | |
| “He’s going to fill the room. You’re going to get exactly what you wanted when you. He commands the room. He is the commander-and-chief, with all due respect.” | |
| “It’s time we had a commander-and-chief, and that’s the first Donald I experienced,” she said. She says the second Trump is a “funny” guy - he tells “some dirty jokes, some funny jokes,” recalling a photoshoot in Vogue they did together where he made a joke about her hair. | |
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| Confusingly, the lady is singing God Bless America for a second time after Carl Paladino said “one more time? One more time!”. | |
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| Carl Paladino, the 2010 candidate for New York governor, is here at the Trump rally, saying our “friend” Trump is on his way. | |
| Someone just led us through the pledge of allegiance and now a lady is singing God Bless America. | |
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| Bernie rally in Albany attracts over 6,000 | |
| A 4,000-strong crowd of Bernie Sanders supporters packed into the Washington Avenue Armory in Albany today to cheer the Vermont Senator - with another 2,000 unable to enter. | |
| A group of young people played hacky sack before the rally. Many carried homemade signs - including one that said “Bern down for what” and a duo carrying hand-painted flame signs. It was a young, hippyish crowd - mainly white and lots of folksy knitted beanies. The crowd regularly chanted “feel the bern” and “whose revolution? Our revolution!” | |
| “He’s the greatest candidate that has ever run for president while I was conscious of politics,” said Maria Scarangella, 26, a social worker from New Paltz, who wore a “feel the Bern” cap. “This is the first time I’ve felt inspired to get involved.” | |
| Radio announcer Jim Hightower, wearing his trademark cowboy hat, addressed the crowd and called Sanders “a candidate with an FDR sized vision of what American can be.” Senator Bill Perkins and NY state Assemblyman Phil Steck both addressed the crowd, giving the Sanders’ campaign some local political heft, in a state where many are strong Clinton supporters. | |
| Finally Sanders appeared, with the crowd going absolutely bananas at his arrival, cheering and stamping. “Albany thank you very much. This is a large, proud and raucous crowd. And a very loud crowd!” he said. | |
| “Brothers and sisters this is a campaign on the move. This is a campaign that has the momentum. This is a campaign that has won eight out of the last nine caucuses,” he said. Sanders spoke about how latest polls had him able to beat Hillary Clinton and beating Donald Trump in the general election by double digits. | |
| “We have the guts to be honest with the American people and tell the truth,” said Sanders. He then spoke about the corrupt campaign finance system, the rigged economy and how the media has ignored him. | |
| “You’ve got to determine what the real issues are, not CNN or ABC,” said Sanders. He went on to speak about the need for a reasonable living wage, the high hours that Americans work, and that 58% of all new income is going to the top 1%. | |
| Sanders spoke about how on Thursday night he will board a plane to the Vatican to meet Pope Francis and noted the head of the Catholic Church has been a leader in talking about income inequality and the concept of a “moral economy.” | |
| The biggest cheer for his stump speech came when he declared “this campaign is listening to women.” After 10 seconds of screaming and cheers, Sanders quipped “This is a loud crowd!” | |
| Abigail Ritter, a graphic designer, painted a “Bern Baby Bern” baby carrier for her 19-month old son Isaac. The 39-year-old mother has known Sanders as a friend her family’s worked on the Sanders campaign at the US House of Representatives, but this was the first time she was seeing him speak live at a rally, and she loved the growing Bernie-mentum. | |
| “I think that Bernie has been ignored by popular media since he’s been in office,” said Ritter. “He’s been one of the leaders in the Senate since he’s been in office and he’s been one of the few to reach across the aisles. That’s his big attraction - he doesn’t stick his feet firmly in the ground, he’s willing to listen to everybody and come up with real solutions.” | |
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| Ben Carson - the former neurosurgeon and failed Republican candidate - is only backing Trump because he thinks he has the best chance to beat the Democrats. | Ben Carson - the former neurosurgeon and failed Republican candidate - is only backing Trump because he thinks he has the best chance to beat the Democrats. |
| “It was pragmatism, recognizing that John Kasich cannot win without a brokered convention — which would guarantee a Democrat win — and recognizing that Ted Cruz can bring conservatives but will have a very difficult time bringing moderates and Democrats,” Carson told radio show Kelley and Kafer last week, Buzzfeed reports. | “It was pragmatism, recognizing that John Kasich cannot win without a brokered convention — which would guarantee a Democrat win — and recognizing that Ted Cruz can bring conservatives but will have a very difficult time bringing moderates and Democrats,” Carson told radio show Kelley and Kafer last week, Buzzfeed reports. |
| “I think that will be pretty much a guaranteed loss also. So in terms of who can potentially win, I think that would be Donald Trump. When I look at the consequences of not winning, it’s too horrible to even think about.” | “I think that will be pretty much a guaranteed loss also. So in terms of who can potentially win, I think that would be Donald Trump. When I look at the consequences of not winning, it’s too horrible to even think about.” |
| The host Krista Kafer said she wouldn’t back Trump if he’s the nominee. Carson said he’d do the same thing if he wasn’t thinking about his kids. | The host Krista Kafer said she wouldn’t back Trump if he’s the nominee. Carson said he’d do the same thing if he wasn’t thinking about his kids. |
| “For me, it’s about the children and the grandchildren,” said Carson. “If it was just me, I would be completely where Krista is. I would say, ‘hey, I got this,I can deal with it,’ but for them, I can’t.” | “For me, it’s about the children and the grandchildren,” said Carson. “If it was just me, I would be completely where Krista is. I would say, ‘hey, I got this,I can deal with it,’ but for them, I can’t.” |
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| Good afternoon folks, this is Amber Jamieson from the Times Union Center in Albany, where the crowd is just beginning to fill in for tonight’s Donald Trump rally. | Good afternoon folks, this is Amber Jamieson from the Times Union Center in Albany, where the crowd is just beginning to fill in for tonight’s Donald Trump rally. |
| I just walked the 10 minutes through New York state government buildings from Bernie Sanders’ rally at the Washington Avenue Armory, where around 4,500 people crammed in (2,000 overflow outside) to hear the Senator from Vermont speak. It was rock concert-loud, those Bernistas really know how to yell. I’ll file a little more shortly about that event, while waiting for Trump’s 7pm rally to kick off. | I just walked the 10 minutes through New York state government buildings from Bernie Sanders’ rally at the Washington Avenue Armory, where around 4,500 people crammed in (2,000 overflow outside) to hear the Senator from Vermont speak. It was rock concert-loud, those Bernistas really know how to yell. I’ll file a little more shortly about that event, while waiting for Trump’s 7pm rally to kick off. |
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| “It took me, like, fiiive swipes”: | “It took me, like, fiiive swipes”: |
| .@HillaryClinton addresses her subway struggles https://t.co/g7Y3N9Q0jJ | .@HillaryClinton addresses her subway struggles https://t.co/g7Y3N9Q0jJ |
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| Biden: 'I would like to see a woman elected' | Biden: 'I would like to see a woman elected' |
| A Mic News interviewer lures vice president Joe Biden onto a limb that, to his media handlers, sounds dangerously close to a Hillary Clinton endorsement. | A Mic News interviewer lures vice president Joe Biden onto a limb that, to his media handlers, sounds dangerously close to a Hillary Clinton endorsement. |
| “I would like to see a woman elected,” Biden tells the interviewer. | “I would like to see a woman elected,” Biden tells the interviewer. |
| “Break!” yells one handler” | “Break!” yells one handler” |
| “That’s it!” announces a second. | “That’s it!” announces a second. |
| “No no no, that’s alright,” Biden says. But then he clarifies that he and the president are not endorsing anyone. | “No no no, that’s alright,” Biden says. But then he clarifies that he and the president are not endorsing anyone. |
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose 1975 victory over Lou Ferrigno in the Mr Olympia competition is documented in Pumping Iron, is an outspoken John Kasich supporter. | Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose 1975 victory over Lou Ferrigno in the Mr Olympia competition is documented in Pumping Iron, is an outspoken John Kasich supporter. |
| But it turns out Ferrigno, who went on to play The Incredible Hulk on TV, likes Trump: “he’s a fair guy”. | But it turns out Ferrigno, who went on to play The Incredible Hulk on TV, likes Trump: “he’s a fair guy”. |
| .@LouFerrigno is on the #TrumpTrain!(THE HULK) discusses @realDonaldTrump! #Trump2016#MakeAmericaGreatAgain #MAGApic.twitter.com/u5yguVthOC | .@LouFerrigno is on the #TrumpTrain!(THE HULK) discusses @realDonaldTrump! #Trump2016#MakeAmericaGreatAgain #MAGApic.twitter.com/u5yguVthOC |
| (h/t @bencjacobs) | (h/t @bencjacobs) |
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| Noise for Sanders in Albany: | Noise for Sanders in Albany: |
| "Albany thank you very much. This is a large, proud and raucous crowd. And a very loud crowd!" pic.twitter.com/DjB4kgzJDn | "Albany thank you very much. This is a large, proud and raucous crowd. And a very loud crowd!" pic.twitter.com/DjB4kgzJDn |
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| John Kasich has kicked off a campaign event in Troy, New York, just north of Albany: | John Kasich has kicked off a campaign event in Troy, New York, just north of Albany: |
| Live at the Town Hall for @JohnKasich after I just introduced him. Very exciting. pic.twitter.com/cS3xPFUGQk | Live at the Town Hall for @JohnKasich after I just introduced him. Very exciting. pic.twitter.com/cS3xPFUGQk |
| 8.12pm BST | 8.12pm BST |
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| Bill Clinton shows strength as campaign booster | Bill Clinton shows strength as campaign booster |
| Sabrina Siddiqui | Sabrina Siddiqui |
| Bill Clinton sought to move past a confrontation with black protesters while stumping for Hillary Clinton in New York City over the weekend, conceding amid stops in Harlem and Queens that the 1994 tough-on-crime bill he signed into law as president “overdid it” and threw too many non-violent offenders into lengthy prison sentences, writes the Guardian’s Sabrina Siddiqui and David Smith: | Bill Clinton sought to move past a confrontation with black protesters while stumping for Hillary Clinton in New York City over the weekend, conceding amid stops in Harlem and Queens that the 1994 tough-on-crime bill he signed into law as president “overdid it” and threw too many non-violent offenders into lengthy prison sentences, writes the Guardian’s Sabrina Siddiqui and David Smith: |
| Clinton drew headlines last week while campaigning for his wife in Philadelphia, vigorously hitting back at activists who had arrived to protest about his record on criminal justice. Although he issued a semi-apology the following day, the incident cast a spotlight once more on how Clinton’s legacy has served, in some ways, as a double-edged sword for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid. | Clinton drew headlines last week while campaigning for his wife in Philadelphia, vigorously hitting back at activists who had arrived to protest about his record on criminal justice. Although he issued a semi-apology the following day, the incident cast a spotlight once more on how Clinton’s legacy has served, in some ways, as a double-edged sword for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid. |
| But while speaking at an event in Hell’s Kitchen, New York, on Sunday, Clinton proved that he remains a great asset for his wife’s campaign – blending obvious star quality and the ability to communicate almost willfully detailed policy arguments in a way that still keeps an audience hanging on his every word. | But while speaking at an event in Hell’s Kitchen, New York, on Sunday, Clinton proved that he remains a great asset for his wife’s campaign – blending obvious star quality and the ability to communicate almost willfully detailed policy arguments in a way that still keeps an audience hanging on his every word. |
| Related: Bill Clinton still boosts Hillary's campaign despite clash with protesters | Related: Bill Clinton still boosts Hillary's campaign despite clash with protesters |
| He also spoke in more nuanced terms of the 1994 crime bill, touting its benefits while acknowledging its unintended consequences, and highlighting Hillary Clinton’s own platform to reform the criminal justice system. | He also spoke in more nuanced terms of the 1994 crime bill, touting its benefits while acknowledging its unintended consequences, and highlighting Hillary Clinton’s own platform to reform the criminal justice system. |
| “We need prison reform,” Clinton told worshippers at the Abyssinian Baptist church in Harlem. “We overdid it and put too many young, non-violent offenders in jail for too long. The federal government can set an example.” | “We need prison reform,” Clinton told worshippers at the Abyssinian Baptist church in Harlem. “We overdid it and put too many young, non-violent offenders in jail for too long. The federal government can set an example.” |
| Read the full piece here. | Read the full piece here. |
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| Sanders has taken the stage in Albany: | Sanders has taken the stage in Albany: |
| Bernie apologies to the 2000 people who couldn't get in | Bernie apologies to the 2000 people who couldn't get in |
| .@BernieSanders "this is a campaign that has won 8 out of the last 9 caucuses" (crowd goes bananas) | .@BernieSanders "this is a campaign that has won 8 out of the last 9 caucuses" (crowd goes bananas) |
| [He means primaries and caucuses] | [He means primaries and caucuses] |