Tag: Sen. Sanders

Endorsing Biden, Obama Warns Of GOP’s ‘Major Propaganda Network’

Barack Obama has generally kept a low profile during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, but the former U.S. president broke his silence on Tuesday, April 14 and officially gave former Vice President, Joe Biden his endorsement.

Obama tweeted, “I’m proud to endorse my friend @JoeBiden for President of the United States. Let’s go.”

Obama’s endorsement comes only one day after Sen. Bernie Sanders officially endorsed Biden. Until last week, Biden and Sanders were the only two remaining candidates in the primary. But when Sanders dropped out — declaring that he believed Biden’s lead in the number of pledged delegates to be insurmountable — Biden’s nomination became inevitable. Continue reading.

Sanders and Klobuchar book CNN debate with Cassidy and Graham

The following article by David Weigel was posted on the Washington Post website September 21, 2017:

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) speaks as Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) listen. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The chief sponsors of the GOP’s 11th-hour effort to curtail the Affordable Care Act will debate two of their Senate opponents, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), on Monday night — an arrangement that surprised some of Sanders’s Democratic colleagues, who learned about the debate when host network CNN blasted out a news release.

According to Sanders spokesman Josh Miller-Lewis, CNN came to the senator with the idea earlier in the week, and Sanders signed on without hesitation. Continue reading “Sanders and Klobuchar book CNN debate with Cassidy and Graham”