Anonymous ID: 3cd1d4 June 18, 2019, 8:03 p.m. No.6786279   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6294 >>6316 >>6404 >>6419 >>6483

SOMEBODY SOUNDS SCARED AF! hahahahaha

Sanders tears into Trump in response to campaign kickoff rally

Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) leveled a forceful attack on President Trump on Tuesday, accusing the real estate mogul of seeking to secure his own reelection by playing to the country’s racial, economic and political divisions.

 

Sanders’s remarks came minutes after Trump formally launched his 2020 reelection bid at a campaign rally in Orlando, Fla. In a live-streamed response to that rally, Sanders cast himself as the antithesis of Trump, and pleaded with voters to deny the president a second term in the White House.

 

“We have a president who is a racist, who is a sexist, who is a homophone, who is a xenophobe and he is a religious bigot,” Sanders said. “His strategy to win reelection is to divide people up.”

 

Speaking to supporters in Orlando on Tuesday, Trump touched on a series of familiar talking points. He decried special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election as a “witch hunt,” railed against journalists covering the event and touted an economic boom under his tenure in office.

 

Sanders’s rebuttal, however, took aim at what the Vermont senator said Trump failed to address at the rally, including the threat posed by climate change and staggering economic inequality in spite of low unemployment rates and a soaring stock market.

 

“Listening to Trump made me feel very much that he is a man living in a parallel universe, a man out of touch with the various needs of people,” Sanders said.

 

For Sanders, it was a particularly pointed response, geared more towards building an electoral case against Trump than furthering the calls for political revolution that have defined much of the senator’s career. At no point, did he mention his democratic socialist ideology or criticize compromise-minded politics.

 

Instead, he made the argument that the country’s top priority, for the time being, should be to reject Trump at the ballot box in 2020.

 

That may prove to be a particularly effective message for Sanders in an election cycle in which Democratic primary voters are consumed with defeating Trump.

 

The Vermont senator has stagnated in polls in recent weeks, while other candidates, like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, have risen. Meanwhile, former Vice President Joe Biden, who has made beating Trump the central theme of his presidential campaign, remains the frontrunner.

 

Indeed, a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday showed six Democratic presidential hopefuls defeating Trump in Florida in hypothetical matchups. In that survey, Sanders led Trump by 6 points.

 

Sanders said on Tuesday that Trump’s political future was precarious, arguing that “poll after poll is showing the country that Trump is falling further behind in terms of his ability to get reelected.”

 

And while much of Sanders’s speech touched on familiar topics for the senator – stagnant wages, college affordability and the promise of universal health care – he urged voters to first reject Trump in 2020.

 

“We got a lot to do,” he said. “But our job most importantly is to defeat the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country. Our job is to keep our eyes on the prize.”

 

“Our job is to resist Trump’s effort to divide us up.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/449242-sanders-tears-into-trump-in-response-to-campaign-kickoff-rally

Anonymous ID: 3cd1d4 June 18, 2019, 8:04 p.m. No.6786294   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6347 >>6477 >>6482

>>6786279

>“We have a president who is a racist, who is a sexist, who is a homophone, who is a xenophobe and he is a religious bigot,” Sanders said. “His strategy to win reelection is to divide people up.”

 

WTF is a "homophone"? lmao

Anonymous ID: 3cd1d4 June 18, 2019, 8:10 p.m. No.6786362   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6407

House votes AGAINST curtailing warrantless collection of Americans' data

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/449234-house-votes-against-curtailing-warrantless-collection-of-americans-data

Anonymous ID: 3cd1d4 June 18, 2019, 8:20 p.m. No.6786462   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6507 >>6710

Rubio responds to journalist who called it 'strange' to see him at Trump rally

 

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) lashed out at a journalist over Twitter on Tuesday who called it “very strange” to see the senator smiling and chuckling at President Trump’s re-election campaign launch, alluding to the pair’s less-than-amicable history.

 

“Very strange, for those of who covered 2016 campaign, to see Sen Marco Rubio smiling and chuckling in this audience,” tweeted Michael Barbaro, host of the New York Times' podcast “The Daily.”

 

And in less than an hour, Rubio directed his own string of tweets at Barbaro in response.

 

“BREAKING,” he tweeted mockingly. “In an unprecedented move a Republican Senator attended a rally in his home state in support of the re-election of a Republican President.”

 

“As opposed to smiling & chuckling at a rally for a radical liberal candidate for President who will undo policies to confront China, reduce regulations & taxes, defend liberty in Venezuela & protect the unborn?” he continued.

 

“BTW, this is the same reporter who in 2015 after 3 weeks of meticulous investigative journalism uncovered that my wife had traffic tickets,” he added. “I had a fishing boat & my home has big windows. And in 2016 he broke the story that I had some boots with higher heel.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/449244-rubio-responds-to-journalist-who-called-it-strange-to-see-him-at-trump?rnd=1560913379