Sanders, O'Malley make central Iowa campaign stops.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told a Jewish group Sunday he believes a regional Mideast coalition is the best hope to defeat radical Islamic extremists and eventually a two-state solution that includes a Palestinian state will be needed to enhance security for Israel.
About 10 miles away, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley told a Latino festival in downtown Des Moines that America must assert its “moral leadership” by taking in Syrian refugees and adopting comprehensive immigration reform that will give 11 million in “the shadows” at path of U.S. citizenship.
“We need to stand up like the generous, passionate and courageous people that we are and do our part in this humanitarian crisis,” O’Malley. another Democrat seeking the White House in 2016, said of the mass exodus fleeing war-torn Syria. . .
“There is a big difference between the saying and the doing,” O’Malley told Iowans attending the Iowa Latino Heritage Festival on Sunday afternoon. “I have not waited for polls or focus groups to tell me what are the true principles of our country.”
During a nearly hourlong meeting with the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines, Sanders sounded domestic themes similar to O’Malley in pushing for higher wages and more middle-class income to end a “rigged” economic model that has created a “grotesque” level of income inequality in recent times.
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