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Bernie Sanders: Coronavirus Impact Makes Need for Medicare for All Clear

A somber Sen. Bernie Sanders confronted growing worries over the novel coronavirus Thursday on a stage that gave him another opportunity to champion his prized healthcare expansion policy goal. Speaking from a hotel meeting place in Burlington, Vermont, Sanders (I-VT) spoke for a little over 16 minutes, jumping from concerns about the impact of isolation as more people self-quarantineand the cost of healthcare, to plans for helping the less fortunate overcome the hardships the pandemic could cause. "Nobody knows what the number of fatalities may end up being or the…

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Bernie Backers Crave Warrens Support, but Her Fans Might Vote Biden Anyway

Less than two months ago, Brent Welder was tweeting #tweeted late on Super Tuesday when Biden re-solidified his frontrunner status. After largely avoiding confrontation in earlier debates, hard feelings between Warren and Sanders became more clear as the primary season took shape. Warren sparred with Sanders in January over whether the Vermont Independent had told Warren during a 2018 meeting that a woman couldnt beat Trump this cycle (something Sanders has denied). As her campaign began to struggle, Warren took further shots at her fellow progressive but it couldnt help…

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Cory Booker to Bernie Fans: Please Dont Cancel Biden

As voters began to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden. But he also used the appearance to send a message to supporters of Bernie Sanders who may be forced to choose between Biden and Donald Trump in November. I started this journey, not just because of the policy ideas but because I really felt like our country needed unity again. We needed to stop hating each other, Booker said. We're a nation that's so much stronger when we find common ground and common purpose. Booker went on to say by…

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Investors Rush to Scrub Ties to Firm Behind Iowa Clusterf*ck

Hours after a debacle that marred Mondays Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses, investors in a company hired to tabulate votes through a new mobile app worked to distance themselves from the company at the center of the chaos, scrubbing digital trails publicly connecting them to the firm. The chaos in Iowa on Monday evening put a microscope on one of Democratic Partys youngest and fastest-rising digital stars, Tara McGowan, prompting blog post announcing the groups investment. McGowan herself had said that ACRONYM had ACRONYMs website boasted that it had launched Shadow.…

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Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden Face Off in Democratic Battle for Iran Dove Cred

On the surface, the Democrats sounded more or less like one another when they denouncedDonald Trumps hit on Qassem Soleimani. But there were some subtle differences that they didnt get into on cable news. Theyre revealing, and they reflect the differences in the party on questions of war and peace and fighting terrorism, with Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders representing the two tent polesat a moment when Sanders has started to attack Biden for the first time more generally. The poles arent hawk and dove. Thats too simplistic. Hardly anyone…

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Warren and Biden Skirmish Over U.S. Troops in Middle East

Pull all U.S. combat troops from the Middle East, every last one of them. That was the positionVice President Joe Biden. For the first time in a series of debates for the 2020 presidential election moderators focused the first thirty minutes of Tuesday nights event on how candidates would fare as commander in chief specifically how theyd handle the growing threat of Iran in the Middle East and if they would choose to withdraw troops from the region. The debate comes just two weeks after President Donald Trump chose to…

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Bidens Plan to Take Down Warren: Have Mayor Pete Do It

Since white college-educated reporters question about whether he unintentionally set the mayor up for success by providing a blueprint for a moderate health-care plan, which features similar contours to his own, Biden key areas comes with Warrens decline. It would seem odd for the [former] vice president to be attacking Pete Buttigieg right now, Yang said. The South Bend mayors ascent in Iowa is more alarming for Team Biden when contrasted with Warrens numbers in the state, where she has been considered a frontrunner for months after investing vast resources…

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