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| Bernie Sanders addresses supporters in live stream – campaign live | Bernie Sanders addresses supporters in live stream – campaign live |
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| The Guardian’s Dan Roberts has more on Bernie Sanders’ late-night announcement, in which he did not suspend his campaign but pledged to work with Hillary Clinton’s campaign to defeat Donald Trump. | |
| Bernie Sanders has urged his supporters to look beyond the Democratic presidential nomination in a speech that stopped short of fully endorsing Hillary Clinton but made clear he was no longer actively challenging her candidacy.In an anti-climatic speech that signaled the effective end of a 14-month campaign odyssey, the Vermont senator insisted his “political revolution continues” despite Clinton’s effective victory in the delegate race. | |
| But crucially, he implied he would soon be working with her campaign to help defeat Donald Trump. | |
| “The major political task that we face in the next five months is to make certain that Donald Trump is defeated and defeated badly,” Sanders told supporters in a live stream video. “And I personally intend to begin my role in that process in a very short period of time.” | |
| The Vermont senator also thanked his supporters and volunteers, suggesting other ways they could continue to press for the issues that drew them toward his campaign. “Election days come and go but political and social revolutions that attempt to transform our society never end,” he said. | |
| “Let me conclude by once again thanking everyone who has helped in this campaign in one way or another,” he added. “We have begun the long and arduous process of transforming America, a fight that will continue tomorrow, next week, next year and into the future.” | |
| The somewhat mixed messages of the speech may frustrate some Democrats who had hoped Sanders would swiftly encourage his supporters to back Clinton before the party’s national convention. But the cryptic language may also reflect ongoing negotiations between the two campaigns over which of several demands made by Sanders at a meeting on Tuesday the Clinton team would be willing to accept. | |
| “I look forward, in the coming weeks, to continued discussions between the two campaigns to make certain that your voices are heard and that the Democratic party passes the most progressive platform in its history and that Democrats actually fight for that agenda,” said Sanders in his speech. | |
| Related: Bernie Sanders says he will work with Hillary Clinton, pivoting his campaign | |
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| Donald Trump, on Saudi Arabia: | |
| Saudi Arabia! They were making a billion dollars a day back when the oil was high! Now they’re only making... massive amounts of money! | |
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| Donald Trump, speaking in Dallas, says that he doesn’t advocate Japan arming itself with nuclear weapons, but is also okay with Japan doing so if it wants. | |
| “We protect Japan and Germany and South Korea, we protect Saudi Arabia and others, okay?” Donald Trump says. “We’re subsidizing greatly.” | |
| “So we defend Japan, we defend Germany, we defend lots of different places,” Trump says after a long digression about Russian president Vladimir Putin calling him a “genius” (which he didn’t), but “this isn’t 40 years ago, 30 years ago!” | |
| “We may have t pull back, we may have to do something, but you cannot say we will defend - we can’t afford to defend all these countries and lose a bunch of money!” Trump says. “And if we don’t, they’re gonna have to defend themselves against this maniac in North Korea! We gotta say that!” | |
| “It may be that Japan will have to defend themselves, and that’s true! And that’s true!” Trump says. “But here’s the problem, here’s the problem, with politicians - especially with Hillary, ’cause she doesn’t have a clue.” | |
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| Now we go back to Donald Trump, who is holding a campaign rally in Dallas, Texas. | |
| “Who’s better for the gay community and who’s better for women than Donald Trump?” Trump asks the audience rhetorically. | |
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| Bernie Sanders calls for 'new generation' of public servants | |
| “We need a new generation of people actively involved in public service who are prepared to provide the quality of life the American people deserve,” Sanders tells his followers in a livestream. | |
| “Let me conclude by once again thanking everyone who has helped in this campaign in one way or another,” Sanders says. “We have begun the long and arduous process of transforming America, a fight that will continue tomorrow, next week, next year and into the future.” | |
| “My hope is that when future historians look back and describe how our country moved forward into reversing the drift toward oligarchy, and created a government which represents all the people and not just the few, they will note that, to a significant degree, that effort began with the political revolution of 2016,” Sanders concludes. | |
| “Thank you very much. Good night.” | |
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| The political revolution he has ignited, Bernie Sanders says, “means that at every level, we continue the fight to make our society a nation of economic, social, racial an environmental justice. It means that we can no longer ignore the fact that, sadly, the current Democratic party leadership has turned its back on dozens of states.” | |
| “The Democratic Party needs a 50-state strategy,” Sanders urges. “We may not win in every state tomorrow, but we will never win unless we recruit good candidates.” | |
| “We must provide resources to those states which have so long been ignored. Most importantly, we need leadership that is prepared to open its doors... to young people,” Sanders says. | |
| “Here is a cold hard fact that must be addressed: Since 2009, some 900 legislative seats have been lost to Republicans in state after state in this country,” Sanders says. “That is unacceptable.” | |
| “We need to start engaging at the local and state level in an unprecedented way,” Sanders continues. “We can win significant number of local and state elections if people are prepared to become involved. I also hope that people will give serious thought to running for statewide offices and also in Congress.” | |
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| Bernie Sanders: I will 'continue discussion' with the Clinton campaign | |
| “This campaign is also about defeating Donald trump, the Republican candidate for president,” Sanders says. “After centuries of racism, sexism and discrimination of all forms in our country, we do not need a major-party candidate who makes bigotry the cornerstone of his campaign.” | |
| “We cannot have a president who, in the midst of so much income inequality, wants to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the very, very rich,” Sanders says. “The major political task that together we face is to make sure that Donald Trump is defeated, and defeated badly | |
| “And I personally plan to begin my role in that process in a very short time.” | |
| “We must continue our effort to become the America that we know we can become, and we must take that energy into the DNC in Philadelphia... where we will have more than 1,900 delegates,” Sanders says, “and discuss some of the very important issues facing our country and the Democratic party.” | |
| “I look forward in the coming weeks to continue discussion between the two campaigns to make sure your voices are heard, and to make sure the Democratic party passes the most progressive platform in its history,” Sanders says, “so that it becomes a party of working people and young people and not just wealthy campaign contributors - a party that has the guts to take on Wall Street... and the other powerful special interests that dominate so much of our political and economic life.” | |
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| Vermont senator Bernie Sanders’ address reiterates numerous points that those who have seen his stump speech will find familiar. | Vermont senator Bernie Sanders’ address reiterates numerous points that those who have seen his stump speech will find familiar. |
| “In an unprecedented way, we showed the world we could run a strong national campaign without being dependent on the big-money interests whose greed has done so much to damage this country,” Sanders says. | “In an unprecedented way, we showed the world we could run a strong national campaign without being dependent on the big-money interests whose greed has done so much to damage this country,” Sanders says. |
| “This campaign has never been about any single candidate. It has always been about transforming America. It is about ending a campaign finance system which is corrupt and allows billionaires to buy elections,” Sanders says. “It is about creating an economy that works for all of us, not just the one percent.” | “This campaign has never been about any single candidate. It has always been about transforming America. It is about ending a campaign finance system which is corrupt and allows billionaires to buy elections,” Sanders says. “It is about creating an economy that works for all of us, not just the one percent.” |
| “It is about ending the incredible despair that exists in many parts of this country, where, as a result of unemployment and low wages, suicide, and alcohol, millions of Americans are dying in a historic way - at a younger age than their parents,” Sanders says. “It is about ending the disgrace of having almost the highest level of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.” | “It is about ending the incredible despair that exists in many parts of this country, where, as a result of unemployment and low wages, suicide, and alcohol, millions of Americans are dying in a historic way - at a younger age than their parents,” Sanders says. “It is about ending the disgrace of having almost the highest level of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.” |
| “It is about ending the disgrace of tens of thousands of Americans dying every year from preventable deaths because... because they cannot afford the prescription drugs they need,” Sanders continues. “It is about ending the pain of a young single mother in Nevada, in t ears, telling me that she doesn’t know how she and her daughter can make it on the $10.75 she makes.” | “It is about ending the disgrace of tens of thousands of Americans dying every year from preventable deaths because... because they cannot afford the prescription drugs they need,” Sanders continues. “It is about ending the pain of a young single mother in Nevada, in t ears, telling me that she doesn’t know how she and her daughter can make it on the $10.75 she makes.” |
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| Bernie Sanders, addressing his campaign supporters, says that the fight for wealth equality continues “every day, every week, and every moth in the fight to create a nation and world of social and economic justice.” | Bernie Sanders, addressing his campaign supporters, says that the fight for wealth equality continues “every day, every week, and every moth in the fight to create a nation and world of social and economic justice.” |
| “When tens of millions of people say loudly and clearly, ‘enough is enough,’ and they become engaged in the fight for justice, that’s what the political revolution we helped start is all about.” | “When tens of millions of people say loudly and clearly, ‘enough is enough,’ and they become engaged in the fight for justice, that’s what the political revolution we helped start is all about.” |
| “It is mainstream - it is what millions of American believe in and want to see happen,” Sanders says of the “political revolution” his campaign helped ignite. “In virtually every state that we contested, we won the overwhelming majority of the votes of voters 45 years of age or younger - sometimes, I might say, by yuuuge numbers.” | “It is mainstream - it is what millions of American believe in and want to see happen,” Sanders says of the “political revolution” his campaign helped ignite. “In virtually every state that we contested, we won the overwhelming majority of the votes of voters 45 years of age or younger - sometimes, I might say, by yuuuge numbers.” |
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| Bernie Sanders addresses supporters in livestream | Bernie Sanders addresses supporters in livestream |
| Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is addressing his campaign’s supporters via a live video stream hosted by his campaign, in which he said on Tuesday he would be discussing “what’s next for our campaign.” | Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is addressing his campaign’s supporters via a live video stream hosted by his campaign, in which he said on Tuesday he would be discussing “what’s next for our campaign.” |
| Watch it live here: | Watch it live here: |