Posted on 04/19/2016 7:02:46 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The left of the Democratic Party has long been uneasy about Clinton’s coziness with the corporate world. But the emphatic, persistent way in which Sanders is attacking her on the topic risks painting her as a cipher of Wall Street — and such a charge could drain liberal grassroots enthusiasm if she locks up the nomination.
“I am worried about the increasingly harsh tone and tenor of this campaign [that could] turn off Sanders supporters in the general [election],” said strategist Jim Manley, a former aide to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who has endorsed Clinton. “I’m afraid they’re going to stay home.”
The tensions escalated on Monday, when the Sanders campaign alleged there were “serious apparent violations” of campaign finance laws under what it termed “a joint fundraising deal between Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.”
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook shot back with a statement accusing the rival campaign of “false attacks.”
Mook added, “As Senator Sanders faces nearly insurmountable odds, he is resorting to baseless accusations of illegal actions and poisoning the well for Democratic candidates up and down the ticket.”
Clinton currently leads Sanders by 244 pledged delegates, according to The Associated Press’s delegate tracker, and has an even bigger advantage among the party’s unpledged superdelegates. She leads Sanders by 10 points in most polls of New York, where 247 pledged delegates are at stake.
Manley said that amplified rhetoric in the run-up to the New York primary has brought the party to the brink of serious problems.
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Those were the two vp prospects I’d been thinking of since 2012. Still think it is Julian Castro over Booker with the Hispanic vote now taking priority over the black vote. Part of the reason behind the memes that Cruz/Rubio and Cubans aren’t really Hispanic and that their Spanish is no good. Should be interesting to see how that already riled-up group reacts in the post-Obama years as the Dems push them aside and increasingly ignore them (what has Obama really done for them other than support BLM?) as they concentrate on building the new Hispanic plantation.
They got Alan Grayson from Florida. He's only 58.
They're also cultivating lots of out-of-the-box talent, like Lena Dunham and Sandra Fluke.
And don't forget Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who will soon be finished with that city and ready for something bigger.
There is one big difference. The DNC is trying to ensure Hillary gets elected. The RNC is trying to ensure that Trump doesn’t get elected.
Blocking Trump is just the first step of the RNC's agenda. The second stage will be thanking Cruz for his service, telling him to step aside along with by-law 40, and nominating their candidate of choice (Jeb Bush or someone similar). So it's a more meandering path than the DNC's coronation of Hillary (the GOP doesn't have as many unpledged delegates, so they need to get creative), but same principle.
The only guy I heard mentioned was Sherrod Brown. All of the VP candidates will check different physical boxes (black, female, gay, handicapped - whatever) but they’ll all be socialist on the inside. The packaging doesn’t matter.
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