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TexasTowelie

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Sun Nov 20, 2016, 06:34 AM Nov 2016

Sanders takes President-elect Trump to task during Miami Book Fair appearance

They came with posters of their hero, wearing “Join the Revolution” T-shirts and ready with questions. They were young and middle-aged and older (though significantly younger than an audience earlier in the week for political analyst James Carville). They clapped. They cheered. And at Miami Book Fair on Saturday night, they loved the idea of Bernie in 2020.

The Vermont senator and former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders appeared in a packed Chapman Conference Center at Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus. He came out on stage to the predictable chants of “Bernie! Bernie!”

But as he said: “This is not about Bernie — this is about you.”

Sanders, who was introduced by his literary agent Ronald Goldfarb, who said his client “does offer an individual ray of light,” was in town to talk about his new book “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In,” about his campaign and what comes next.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/books/miami-book-fair-international/article115978298.html

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Sanders takes President-elect Trump to task during Miami Book Fair appearance (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2016 OP
Ireally like Bernie, but I hope the Democrats have other canidates in play. Portland_Anni Nov 2016 #1

Portland_Anni

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1. Ireally like Bernie, but I hope the Democrats have other canidates in play.
Sun Nov 20, 2016, 06:55 AM
Nov 2016

I am a Pacific Green Party member but will still vote for the best canidate to defeat the toxic GOP Party. I will work for them like I did Hillary doing volunteer work. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. And I really loathe Pence and Humpty Trumpty.

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