Bernie Sanders Says More Than 200,000 People Have Signed Up to Help His White House Bid

[Capt. Obvious]

On Tuesday, a bit after 5 p.m., Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders voted against the Republican budget. Shortly thereafter, he sat for an interview with MSNBC’s Hardball–his second interview on the channel in 24 hours. At 6:40 p.m., the independent who is running in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary bounded up the stairs of an anonymous suburban office park into an IBEW meeting hall, to report that his bid was succeeding more than he'd ever hoped it could.

"In the first five days, about 200,000 people have signed up to work on the campaign," said Sanders, as around 200 people from Maryland and Washington applauded. "How's that? Two hundred thousand! We're gonna be have to working overtime to figure out how we use those people."

The town hall meeting had been billed as a discussion on "How the Republican Budget will hurt working Americans," and Sanders's Senate staff drove him to and from the union hall. He was, after all, the ranking member on the Budget Committee. Most of the senator's 40-minute speech did focus on the budget, as a jumping-off point for everything his campaign would be about–a discussion that took place as Hillary Clinton, the other declared candidate for the nomination, was holding a tightly controlled event on immigration three time zones away.

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Sanders led a round of applause, and lit into the Republican-passed budget. “This is the story of tens of millions of Americans who are totally dependent on Medicaid,” Sanders said. “Those cuts will throw some 11 million Americans off of health insurance. On top of that, they ended the Affordable Care Act, which would throw 16 million Americans off of health insurance. I may not be a math expert, but 11 million plus 16 million is 27 million people without insurance if their vision, their idea, goes into law."

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When the conversation turned to 2016, Sanders insisted that he was only discussing the race because he was asked. "We won't have a super-PAC," he said, beaming about the 50,000-plus donors who'd given an average of $43 to him. Matter-of-factly, he agreed to every progressive position that the audience asked about. Prison reform? For it. Paper ballots? "In Canada, they do their votes with a paper ballot," he said, approvingly. Immigration? "People in this country want a path toward citizenship and I want to establish that path."

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[cali]

1. I don't know what the big deal with Bloomberg Politics is

no more right wing than the rest of the MSM.

I will say one thing though: It's clear to me that Bernie needs to be doing some aggressive outreach to blacks and latinos.

He's got a great record. He's often spoken up on issues important to minorities.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. You nailed this part:

>>>t's clear to me that Bernie needs to be doing some aggressive outreach to blacks and latinos. >>>>

Reminds me of Teachout vs. Cuomo in NYS GOV Dem Primary. They pretty much split the white primary vote but Cuomo *swamped*

the professor in non-white... specifically AA and latino communities.

Not sure if it's name rec, low turnout or the misperception ... in the NYS case .....that Cuomo's misrule is somehow better for POC than an unknown quantity; in the current instance, HRC over the relatively obscure Bernie Sanders for the same reason.

Go after 'em, Bernie.