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| Donald Trump and Ted Cruz stump in Indiana after Obama drops the mic – campaign live | Donald Trump and Ted Cruz stump in Indiana after Obama drops the mic – campaign live |
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| Bernie Sanders has announced yet another extraordinary month of fundraising, raising $25.8m in April. The senator has routinely broke fundraising records with small donations, which he often touts on the campaign trail as a sign of his “political revolution”. | |
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| Since the Sanders campaign was launched one year ago, his supporters have revolutionized campaign fundraising and demonstrated that he can wage a competitive campaign for president without relying on Wall Street and other special interests. More than 7.4 million contributions have poured in from more than 2.4 million donors totaling $210 million. | |
| A key to Sanders’ fundraising success has been that his grassroots supporters consistently have contributed more to his campaign than Hillary Clinton’s big-dollar donors. Sanders’ April donations far exceeded Hillary for America’s $21 million in March. | |
| “What our campaign is doing is bringing millions of Americans into the political process,” said Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager. | |
| “Sanders is the candidate with the most energy and excitement. He is the candidate with the best chance of winning in November. He is the candidate who is in the best position to bring a new generation of voters into the democratic process and restore the faith of working-class voters that we can have a government that works for all of us, not just the 1 percent.” | |
| Sanders’ average contribution was a little less than $26, the campaign said, boasting that teachers, students, engineers and young people make up the largest blocs of donors. It’s an implicit rebuke of Clinton, who has received a large number of contributions from people who work in finance, law or are retired. | |
| Sanders fundraising 2016:Jan: $20 mil (described as "jawdropping")Feb: $42 milMarch: $44 milApril: $25.8 mil | |
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| Republican Ted Cruz is next up on the CNN program. | Republican Ted Cruz is next up on the CNN program. |
| CcHost Jake Tapper immediately notes comments by former Speaker of the House John Boehner – Republicans’ long-time leader in Congress. Boehner said Cruz was “Lucifer in the flesh”. | CcHost Jake Tapper immediately notes comments by former Speaker of the House John Boehner – Republicans’ long-time leader in Congress. Boehner said Cruz was “Lucifer in the flesh”. |
| Cruz immediately notes how he’s gotten an endorsement from Indiana’s governor, Mike Pence, and his new running-mate Carly Fiorina. He waxes grateful. | Cruz immediately notes how he’s gotten an endorsement from Indiana’s governor, Mike Pence, and his new running-mate Carly Fiorina. He waxes grateful. |
| Tapper turns it on him: doesn’t picking Fiorina this early, months before the convention and hundreds of delegates away from the nomination, smack of desperation? | Tapper turns it on him: doesn’t picking Fiorina this early, months before the convention and hundreds of delegates away from the nomination, smack of desperation? |
| Cruz says that’s exactly what Trump wants you to think. “He either yells, screams, curses or insults, so it’s no surprise he went with insult.” | Cruz says that’s exactly what Trump wants you to think. “He either yells, screams, curses or insults, so it’s no surprise he went with insult.” |
| “This is an unusual election but I think it’s important to give the voters a clear contrast, a clear choice, between Carly and me on the one hand and Donald and Hillary” on the other, he says. | “This is an unusual election but I think it’s important to give the voters a clear contrast, a clear choice, between Carly and me on the one hand and Donald and Hillary” on the other, he says. |
| “They’re flipsides of the same coin. They agree with each other on issue after issue after issue,” Cruz goes on. “They’re both Washington insiders.” | “They’re flipsides of the same coin. They agree with each other on issue after issue after issue,” Cruz goes on. “They’re both Washington insiders.” |
| “Trump has made billions buying politicians like Hillary Clinton,” he says, lumping in Boehner for good measure. “They’re all part of the same corrupt Washington system. Where the rich get richer.” | “Trump has made billions buying politicians like Hillary Clinton,” he says, lumping in Boehner for good measure. “They’re all part of the same corrupt Washington system. Where the rich get richer.” |
| Cruz’s new populist argument is a tricky one to make: he is a millionaire lawyer married to a Goldman Sachs financier and running for president alongside a millionaire former CEO. | Cruz’s new populist argument is a tricky one to make: he is a millionaire lawyer married to a Goldman Sachs financier and running for president alongside a millionaire former CEO. |
| Tapper then asks Cruz about his support for a North Carolina law that requires transgender people use the bathroom of the gender they were assigned at birth. | Tapper then asks Cruz about his support for a North Carolina law that requires transgender people use the bathroom of the gender they were assigned at birth. |
| “The law doesn’t specify transgender it’s whatever you feel like at the given moment,” Cruz says, arguing that although transgender people might not threaten children, the anti-discrimination rules that protect them could somehow leave children vulnerable to predators. | “The law doesn’t specify transgender it’s whatever you feel like at the given moment,” Cruz says, arguing that although transgender people might not threaten children, the anti-discrimination rules that protect them could somehow leave children vulnerable to predators. |
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| Clinton promises progressive platform with Sanders | |
| Hillary Clinton is the first candidate to speak this morning, on CNN’s State of the Union with host Jake Tapper. It’s a pre-taped interview, the only one Clinton has given since her victory in four of five states that voted last Tuesday. | Hillary Clinton is the first candidate to speak this morning, on CNN’s State of the Union with host Jake Tapper. It’s a pre-taped interview, the only one Clinton has given since her victory in four of five states that voted last Tuesday. |
| Do you consider yourself the presumptive nominee, she’s asked. | Do you consider yourself the presumptive nominee, she’s asked. |
| “No,” she says, adding that she’s “on the path” and doesn’t want to take anything for granted. | “No,” she says, adding that she’s “on the path” and doesn’t want to take anything for granted. |
| Tapper then asks her about Bernie Sanders’ turn toward changing the agenda of the democratic party, rather than winning the nomination outright. “There comes a time where you have to look at the reality,” Clinton replies. | |
| “I certainly look forward to working with Senator Sanders,” she says, promising that “it will be a progressive platform.” | “I certainly look forward to working with Senator Sanders,” she says, promising that “it will be a progressive platform.” |
| “I really welcome his ideas and his supporters’ passion and commitment, because the most important thing for us is for us to win in November,” she adds. The “primary objective”, she says, is “to make sure that Donald Trump is not president. | “I really welcome his ideas and his supporters’ passion and commitment, because the most important thing for us is for us to win in November,” she adds. The “primary objective”, she says, is “to make sure that Donald Trump is not president. |
| Clinton commiserates with Sanders and his supporters. “It’s hard,” she says. “You throw yourself into these campaigns body and soul, you work 24/7.” Then she essentially thanks Sanders for his contributions: bringing people into the party, and being “a passionate advocate for the issues he feels passionately about”. | Clinton commiserates with Sanders and his supporters. “It’s hard,” she says. “You throw yourself into these campaigns body and soul, you work 24/7.” Then she essentially thanks Sanders for his contributions: bringing people into the party, and being “a passionate advocate for the issues he feels passionately about”. |
| “We have far more in common,” she says, “than Donald Trump.” | “We have far more in common,” she says, “than Donald Trump.” |
| Trump’s policy ideas are “disturbing”, she says, noting his proposals to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the US and to create a religious registry. | Trump’s policy ideas are “disturbing”, she says, noting his proposals to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the US and to create a religious registry. |
| “I know that the stakes are high, that we face some real challenges and dangers in the world,” she says, but “I don’t think pretending you have some kind of secret plan is a smart way of leading.” | “I know that the stakes are high, that we face some real challenges and dangers in the world,” she says, but “I don’t think pretending you have some kind of secret plan is a smart way of leading.” |
| Asked about Trump’s more isolationist tendencies, Clinton assures Tapper: “I’m always someone who uses military force as a last resort.” | Asked about Trump’s more isolationist tendencies, Clinton assures Tapper: “I’m always someone who uses military force as a last resort.” |
| Asked about some of Trump’s remarks – about a “woman card” and “crooked Hillary” – she says she doesn’t respond to attacks. “I think it’s kind of silly,” she adds, noting that she’s been twice elected to the Senate, has two million more votes overall than Trump, and won Ohio and Pennsylvania by higher margins than he won in the Republican primary. | Asked about some of Trump’s remarks – about a “woman card” and “crooked Hillary” – she says she doesn’t respond to attacks. “I think it’s kind of silly,” she adds, noting that she’s been twice elected to the Senate, has two million more votes overall than Trump, and won Ohio and Pennsylvania by higher margins than he won in the Republican primary. |
| “I had a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and the way they speak,” she says. “I’m not going to deal with their temper tantrums or their bullying.” | “I had a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and the way they speak,” she says. “I’m not going to deal with their temper tantrums or their bullying.” |
| “I could [sic] really care less.” | |
| In a hint at some of her anti-Trump tactics to come, she notes that Trump’s proposals are almost always extremely vague. “There’s nothing secret about what I want to d,” she says. “I’ve laid it all out there. And he can’t. Or he won’t. I can’t tell which. … Or he can continue on his insult fest. That’s a choice he’s making.” | In a hint at some of her anti-Trump tactics to come, she notes that Trump’s proposals are almost always extremely vague. “There’s nothing secret about what I want to d,” she says. “I’ve laid it all out there. And he can’t. Or he won’t. I can’t tell which. … Or he can continue on his insult fest. That’s a choice he’s making.” |
| Tapper turns to a bit of policy himself. He asks about trade deals that Trump and Sanders have criticized at length for hurting manufacturing jobs. “They were mixed. They helped a lot of people and they hurt people,” Clinton says. “One of the problems in our country is we don’t do enough to help people who are hurt.” | Tapper turns to a bit of policy himself. He asks about trade deals that Trump and Sanders have criticized at length for hurting manufacturing jobs. “They were mixed. They helped a lot of people and they hurt people,” Clinton says. “One of the problems in our country is we don’t do enough to help people who are hurt.” |
| Finally the host asks her about how she and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, attended the wedding of Donald and Melania Trump. | Finally the host asks her about how she and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, attended the wedding of Donald and Melania Trump. |
| Clinton laughs, and grins when she says that it “never crossed my mind” that she could ever be running for president against the businessman. | Clinton laughs, and grins when she says that it “never crossed my mind” that she could ever be running for president against the businessman. |
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| Hello and welcome to our rolling coverage of the 2016 primary election, the day after Barack Obama literally dropped the mic on Republicans, Democrats and the press, and only two days out from the crucial Indiana primary, which is likely the last realistic chance to block a former reality TV star from a clear path to his party’s nomination. | Hello and welcome to our rolling coverage of the 2016 primary election, the day after Barack Obama literally dropped the mic on Republicans, Democrats and the press, and only two days out from the crucial Indiana primary, which is likely the last realistic chance to block a former reality TV star from a clear path to his party’s nomination. |
| Donald Trump needs 1,237 delegates to clinch the Republican nomination at the party’s convention in July, and party leaders in New Hampshire and elsewhere are trying to pack their contingents with anti-Trump Republicans. Trump’s main rival, Texas senator Ted Cruz, has meanwhile invested huge efforts into Indiana, a state with politics so conservative that its voters may yet choose the widely loathed senator over the nationally disliked businessman. Trump did not attend the White House correspondents dinner on Saturday night, although he’s been a guest before. | Donald Trump needs 1,237 delegates to clinch the Republican nomination at the party’s convention in July, and party leaders in New Hampshire and elsewhere are trying to pack their contingents with anti-Trump Republicans. Trump’s main rival, Texas senator Ted Cruz, has meanwhile invested huge efforts into Indiana, a state with politics so conservative that its voters may yet choose the widely loathed senator over the nationally disliked businessman. Trump did not attend the White House correspondents dinner on Saturday night, although he’s been a guest before. |
| “Is this dinner too tacky for the Donald?” Obama asked the crowd. “What could he possibly be doing instead? Is he at home eating a Trump steak, tweeting out insults to Angela Merkel? What’s he doing?” | “Is this dinner too tacky for the Donald?” Obama asked the crowd. “What could he possibly be doing instead? Is he at home eating a Trump steak, tweeting out insults to Angela Merkel? What’s he doing?” |
| Polls suggest the race is close: Cruz’s well-organized team has tended to over-perform in states such as Indiana, and the state’s rules mean whoever wins takes most of the delegates. Cruz himself will appear on nearly every Sunday talk show this morning to press his case that somehow he can be both America’s most conservative leader and a unifying, definitely-not-despised-by-colleagues force in American politics. | Polls suggest the race is close: Cruz’s well-organized team has tended to over-perform in states such as Indiana, and the state’s rules mean whoever wins takes most of the delegates. Cruz himself will appear on nearly every Sunday talk show this morning to press his case that somehow he can be both America’s most conservative leader and a unifying, definitely-not-despised-by-colleagues force in American politics. |
| The Texas senator was not spared Obama’s mockery, especially for his talk of a “basketball ring” earlier this week. “What else is in his lexicon? Baseball sticks? Football hats? But, sure, I’m the foreign one.” | The Texas senator was not spared Obama’s mockery, especially for his talk of a “basketball ring” earlier this week. “What else is in his lexicon? Baseball sticks? Football hats? But, sure, I’m the foreign one.” |
| Cruz is also hampered by John Kasich, a third Republican candidate who trails by a huge margin in the race and who has lured more moderate conservatives to his comparatively more moderate cause. Without any realistic chance at the nomination, Kasich has largely been ignored by party leaders such as former House Speaker John Boehner and Senator Lindsey Graham. This week Boehner called Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh”. | Cruz is also hampered by John Kasich, a third Republican candidate who trails by a huge margin in the race and who has lured more moderate conservatives to his comparatively more moderate cause. Without any realistic chance at the nomination, Kasich has largely been ignored by party leaders such as former House Speaker John Boehner and Senator Lindsey Graham. This week Boehner called Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh”. |
| On the Democratic side of the race, underdog Bernie Sanders has lost nearly any mathematical chance at the nomination in terms of pledged and unpledged delegates. He has vowed to continue the race through its final stages, however, and already turned toward converting his remarkable success – he often notes that he started a year ago at 3% in the polls – into a progressive agenda for the Democratic party at large. | On the Democratic side of the race, underdog Bernie Sanders has lost nearly any mathematical chance at the nomination in terms of pledged and unpledged delegates. He has vowed to continue the race through its final stages, however, and already turned toward converting his remarkable success – he often notes that he started a year ago at 3% in the polls – into a progressive agenda for the Democratic party at large. |
| Obama joked that the 74-year-old Sanders is “the bright new face of the Democratic party”. “I am hurt, though, Bernie, that you’ve been distancing yourself a little from me. I mean, that’s just not something that you do to your comrade.” | Obama joked that the 74-year-old Sanders is “the bright new face of the Democratic party”. “I am hurt, though, Bernie, that you’ve been distancing yourself a little from me. I mean, that’s just not something that you do to your comrade.” |
| The democratic socialist senator from Vermont began his campaign exactly one year ago today (May Day), and his mission may yet prove a defining factor even should the frontrunner secure the nomination, as seems likely. | The democratic socialist senator from Vermont began his campaign exactly one year ago today (May Day), and his mission may yet prove a defining factor even should the frontrunner secure the nomination, as seems likely. |
| That frontrunner, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, has already turned her attention away from Sanders and toward Trump and the general election. Clinton has given a rare exclusive interview to CNN this morning, and will likely have to field questions about her thoughts on a potential running mate, even though the party remains months from the convention. | That frontrunner, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, has already turned her attention away from Sanders and toward Trump and the general election. Clinton has given a rare exclusive interview to CNN this morning, and will likely have to field questions about her thoughts on a potential running mate, even though the party remains months from the convention. |
| Obama didn’t spare his erstwhile cabinet member from a little teasing, and alluded to her hard road ahead uniting Sanders’ passionate base of young people. “You’ve got to admit it though, Hillary trying to appeal to young voters is a little bit like your relative who just signed up for Facebook. | Obama didn’t spare his erstwhile cabinet member from a little teasing, and alluded to her hard road ahead uniting Sanders’ passionate base of young people. “You’ve got to admit it though, Hillary trying to appeal to young voters is a little bit like your relative who just signed up for Facebook. |
| “Obama out”, the president declared on Saturday night, at ease with his nearing departure from the White House. We’re in it for the long haul, so follow along to see how Trump, Cruz, Sanders and Clinton try to edge each other, redefine politics – and react to the presidential gibes at their expense. | “Obama out”, the president declared on Saturday night, at ease with his nearing departure from the White House. We’re in it for the long haul, so follow along to see how Trump, Cruz, Sanders and Clinton try to edge each other, redefine politics – and react to the presidential gibes at their expense. |
| Related: Barack Obama in surprise swipe at Hillary at final correspondents' dinner | Related: Barack Obama in surprise swipe at Hillary at final correspondents' dinner |
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