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| Bernie Sanders: 'I lost states because poor people don't vote' – politics live | |
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| Sanders reframes goal as driving voter turnout | |
| Without wavering from his campaign’s insistence that he has a “path to victory” in the Democratic nominating race, Bernie Sanders reframed his role in the race on Sunday, saying that his goal was to increase voter participation in politics. | |
| “If there’s a thing that I’m trying to do in this campaign, that is precisely what I’m trying to do,” Sanders told CNN’s Jake Tapper. Greater participation in elections by low-income and working class voters, he said, would “revitalize American democracy.” | |
| “We have got to involve people, and it’s not easy – so many people have given up on the political process,” he said. “Our job is to bring them back.” | |
| As noted in the previous block, turnout in the Democratic nominating race was measured by Pew Research last month at 11.7% – the highest since 1992. Republican turnout was measured at 17.3% of eligible voters, the highest since 1980. | |
| Sanders began to retrain his focus on turnout in an interview at the weekend, in which he was asked to explain why he had lost primary contests in 16 states with unusually large income inequality. | |
| “Poor people don’t vote,” Sanders said. “I mean, that’s just a fact.” | |
| On Sunday, Sanders rejected calls for him to exit the race, including from former top Barack Obama adviser and current Hillary Clinton supporter David Plouffe, who tweeted this week that Sanders’ quixotic quest for the nomination was “fraud.” | |
| Sanders has run a stunningly strong campaign fueled by passionate supporters. But raising $$ stating you have path to nomination is fraud. | |
| “David Plouffe is working for Hillary Clinton,” Sanders said. “The idea that we should not vigorously contest this election when the largest state in the USA, California, has not voted... of course we’re going to give every person in this country the right to [decide] what kind of president they want.” | |
| California and five other states hold Democratic contests on 7 June, and the last voting is a week later in Washington, DC. | |
| “I think we do have a path to victory,” Sanders said. “We’re going to fight for every last vote until California and the DC primary.” | |
| Sanders declined an invitation from Tapper to engage in veepstakes speculation about who the Democratic running mate might turn out to be. | |
| “I think that Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump needs to start talking to the real issue facing the American people, and that is that we have a vast level of income inequality,” Sanders said. | |
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| Sanders: 'poor people don't vote' | Sanders: 'poor people don't vote' |
| Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders explained that he had lost primaries in 16 states with high income inequality “because poor people don’t vote.” | Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders explained that he had lost primaries in 16 states with high income inequality “because poor people don’t vote.” |
| “I mean, that’s just a fact,” Sanders said in an interview with NBC News, in response to a question about his losses in states with a large wealth gap. “That’s a sad reality of American society. And that’s what we have to transform.” | “I mean, that’s just a fact,” Sanders said in an interview with NBC News, in response to a question about his losses in states with a large wealth gap. “That’s a sad reality of American society. And that’s what we have to transform.” |
| Sanders has predicated his campaign on a promise to assuage growing wealth and income inequality in the United States, and he has received support from a record number of grassroots donors whose small contributions have consistently added up to monthly fundraising totals that dwarf those of his opponent, Hillary Clinton. | Sanders has predicated his campaign on a promise to assuage growing wealth and income inequality in the United States, and he has received support from a record number of grassroots donors whose small contributions have consistently added up to monthly fundraising totals that dwarf those of his opponent, Hillary Clinton. |
| Yet Clinton, owing in part to stalwart support from African Americans, has notched big victories in southern states with some of the lowest median incomes in the country. | Yet Clinton, owing in part to stalwart support from African Americans, has notched big victories in southern states with some of the lowest median incomes in the country. |
| “We have one – as you know, one of the lowest voter turnouts of any major country on Earth,” Sanders told NBC. “We have done a good job bringing young people in. I think we have done – had some success with lower income people. But in America today – the last election in 2014, 80% percent of poor people did not vote.” | “We have one – as you know, one of the lowest voter turnouts of any major country on Earth,” Sanders told NBC. “We have done a good job bringing young people in. I think we have done – had some success with lower income people. But in America today – the last election in 2014, 80% percent of poor people did not vote.” |
| Sanders may be overestimating turnout, in fact. Turnout in the Democratic nominating race was measured by Pew Research last month at 11.7% – the highest since 1992, not counting the outlying 2008 cycle, in which enthusiasm for a competitive race between Clinton and Barack Obama drove turnout to almost 20%. | Sanders may be overestimating turnout, in fact. Turnout in the Democratic nominating race was measured by Pew Research last month at 11.7% – the highest since 1992, not counting the outlying 2008 cycle, in which enthusiasm for a competitive race between Clinton and Barack Obama drove turnout to almost 20%. |
| Republican turnout was measured at 17.3% of eligible voters, the highest since 1980. | Republican turnout was measured at 17.3% of eligible voters, the highest since 1980. |
| “If we can significantly increase voter turnout so that low income people and working people and young people participated in the political process, if we got a voter turnout of 75 percent, this country would be radically transformed,” Sanders said. | “If we can significantly increase voter turnout so that low income people and working people and young people participated in the political process, if we got a voter turnout of 75 percent, this country would be radically transformed,” Sanders said. |
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| Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House, just two days out from elections in five eastern states that are expected, if you think polls are worth a penny, to further bolster the leads of frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. | Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House, just two days out from elections in five eastern states that are expected, if you think polls are worth a penny, to further bolster the leads of frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. |
| Trump’s campaign has undergone an Extreme Makeover worthy of reality TV, with the hiring of experienced political operatives, ad spending and actual speech rehearsal. Trump’s new majordomo, Paul Manafort, a former adviser to a Kremlin-backed Ukrainian president, will be making the gab-show rounds. | Trump’s campaign has undergone an Extreme Makeover worthy of reality TV, with the hiring of experienced political operatives, ad spending and actual speech rehearsal. Trump’s new majordomo, Paul Manafort, a former adviser to a Kremlin-backed Ukrainian president, will be making the gab-show rounds. |
| But we may be most eager to hear this morning from Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus, who said at a party meeting this week that the nomination would not be awarded to any candidate who does not hit 1,237 delegates, as stipulated in the rulebook. Trump is the only one who might get there before the convention, and yet he faces stubborn resistance from party holdouts who vow never to support him. Does it all keep Priebus awake at night? We’ll hear what he has to say. | But we may be most eager to hear this morning from Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus, who said at a party meeting this week that the nomination would not be awarded to any candidate who does not hit 1,237 delegates, as stipulated in the rulebook. Trump is the only one who might get there before the convention, and yet he faces stubborn resistance from party holdouts who vow never to support him. Does it all keep Priebus awake at night? We’ll hear what he has to say. |
| Between Republican insurgent Ted Cruz’s plots to force a contested convention and Trump’s success along the ladder of chaos, the race has (inevitably) drawn comparisons with the novel/show Game of Thrones, and even broken up a secretive clique of Hollywood conservatives. Here’s how the bar graphs look: | Between Republican insurgent Ted Cruz’s plots to force a contested convention and Trump’s success along the ladder of chaos, the race has (inevitably) drawn comparisons with the novel/show Game of Thrones, and even broken up a secretive clique of Hollywood conservatives. Here’s how the bar graphs look: |
| Nor is Bernie Sanders ready to concede defeat to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic nominating contest. The senator from Vermont is making appearances on four of the five Sunday talk shows as he tries to rebound from a difficult loss in New York. Sanders has spent the weekend trying to woo voters in Pennsylvania and Maryland, the two biggest states to vote this Tuesday. | Nor is Bernie Sanders ready to concede defeat to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic nominating contest. The senator from Vermont is making appearances on four of the five Sunday talk shows as he tries to rebound from a difficult loss in New York. Sanders has spent the weekend trying to woo voters in Pennsylvania and Maryland, the two biggest states to vote this Tuesday. |
| Related: Sanders' bid for black vote in Baltimore highlights struggles to broaden appeal | Related: Sanders' bid for black vote in Baltimore highlights struggles to broaden appeal |
| And Charles Koch, chief executive of Koch Industries and one of the biggest conservative donors in a generation, has granted an unusual interview to ABC. Koch and his brother David promised to spend nearly $1bn on the 2016 presidential election to get a conservative back in the White House, but have largely kept to the sidelines of the tumultuous Republican primary. | And Charles Koch, chief executive of Koch Industries and one of the biggest conservative donors in a generation, has granted an unusual interview to ABC. Koch and his brother David promised to spend nearly $1bn on the 2016 presidential election to get a conservative back in the White House, but have largely kept to the sidelines of the tumultuous Republican primary. |
| Related: Dark Money review: Nazi oil, the Koch brothers and a rightwing revolution | Related: Dark Money review: Nazi oil, the Koch brothers and a rightwing revolution |
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