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'Not just a protest candidate': Sanders draws thousands to Las Vegas rally
Several thousand Democrats stood in a line wrapped around a high school football stadium on Sunday, in hopes of seeing Bernie Sanders speak in west Las Vegas.
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Rohan Ramadas, 26, and his friend Pear Wilson, 30, had driven from Los Angeles to canvas for Sanders in pivotal Clark County, which is home to 2 million of Nevada’s 2.8 million residents. It was the first time either of the college graduates had donated time and money to a political campaign.
They decided to get involved this past summer, Ramadas said, when it became clear Sanders “wasn’t just a protest candidate”.
John Major, 57, who spent 23 years in the US coast guard, arrived by himself.
“I’m worried about the status of the country,” he said. “The infrastructure falling apart, the student debts that kids are building up because of the system now. It wasn’t like that when I grew up.”
A waiter on the Las Vegas Strip, Matthew Safran, 34, was supporting Sanders in part because he wanted a higher wage for service industry employees.
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Rohan Ramadas, 26, and his friend Pear Wilson, 30, had driven from Los Angeles to canvas for Sanders in pivotal Clark County, which is home to 2 million of Nevada’s 2.8 million residents. It was the first time either of the college graduates had donated time and money to a political campaign.
They decided to get involved this past summer, Ramadas said, when it became clear Sanders “wasn’t just a protest candidate”.
John Major, 57, who spent 23 years in the US coast guard, arrived by himself.
“I’m worried about the status of the country,” he said. “The infrastructure falling apart, the student debts that kids are building up because of the system now. It wasn’t like that when I grew up.”
A waiter on the Las Vegas Strip, Matthew Safran, 34, was supporting Sanders in part because he wanted a higher wage for service industry employees.
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“Clinton supporters seemed to be a lot more vocal eight months ago,” said Safran. “Now it seems that they’re almost embarrassed to be Hillary supporters since [Sanders] has shined a light on a lot of stuff … They say it’s 50-50 in Nevada, but it’s a lot more vocal from the Bernie side.”
Clinton tried to shore up support in Las Vegas’s minority community at a rally on Saturday.
“Not everything is about an economic theory,” she said, echoing a new attack ad portraying Sanders as a one-issue candidate. “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow … will that end racism? Will that end sexism? Will that end discrimination against the LGBT community?
“Will that make people feel more welcoming to immigrants overnight?”
“Not everything is about an economic theory,” she said, echoing a new attack ad portraying Sanders as a one-issue candidate. “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow … will that end racism? Will that end sexism? Will that end discrimination against the LGBT community?
“Will that make people feel more welcoming to immigrants overnight?”
Read whole article here: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/14/bernie-sanders-las-vegas-rally-hillary-clinton-nevada
Saw this tweet the other day that kind of sums up Hillary's new mantra:
hillary: we could end child poverty tomorrow but would that defeat ISIS?
voters: what
hillary: here's a dance I learned on the ellen show
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