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3/23 BNR Afternoon + OT: Bernie Rally at Grand Central Park in LA Livestream

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Looks like the crowd is pouring in to the event:

Update from Heavy.com:

Today Bernie Sanders hosted what is likely his largest rally yet for his 2020 campaign. The rally took place in Los Angeles, California at the Grand Park downtown, across from City Hall. Exactly how many people attended isn’t yet known, but the numbers are significant since the park can hold from 25,000 to 50,000 people, depending on the setup. On top of that, 22,000 RSVP’d on Facebook for Sanders’ event in LA, and crowd size photos show a significant turnout. In fact, so many people showed up that an overflow crowd formed on the steps of City Hall across the street. An early report shared that 15,000 might have been there tonight, but it’s not yet clear if this is accurate or includes overflow crowds.

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3/22 BNR+ Afternoon OT: Dem Socialists of America Feel the Bern!

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Solidarity!

Open Thread too…

3/20 BNR Afternoon +OT: Bernie To Join UCLA Workers at Rally

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And, Bernie is at a rally for the UTPE-CWA 9119 union that is striking near the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center today.

Meantime, chat away in the comments!

Bernie News Roundup – Sanders Sits Down With Seth Meyers, Bernie’s Radicalism Is Tomorrow’s Common Sense & More

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Bernie Sanders to Seth Meyers: Yes, It’s ‘Awkward’ to Run Against Senate Colleagues

In a big new interview with The New York Times on the occasion of his show’s fifth anniversary, Seth Meyers admitted that he doesn’t love interviewing politicians. In his experience, “they’re just gonna answer the question they wish you’d asked and they’re going to say it the way they practiced it, and oftentimes it’s something they’ve said a bunch. So there’s the lack of the crackle you want during an interview.”

But not every politician is Bernie Sanders.

The Vermont senator made his seventh appearance on Late Night in less than four years on Thursday. He began by systematically laying out his platform for 2020 but loosened up a bit when Meyers asked him how he feels about his policies moving into the mainstream.

“A lot of those issues obviously distinguished you from the competition last time,” Meyers said. “One of the successes is you now have convinced a lot of the people that are running against you. Do you ever want to say—because a lot of them are friends or colleagues—do you ever want to say, ‘Hey, Medicare for All, that’s kind of my thing?’”

Laughing, Sanders replied, “No one person can do it alone. So, we need a lot of voices out there.”

With so many of his Senate colleagues currently running for the Democratic nomination, Meyers asked his guest, “Is it awkward that you all know that you’re all trying to be president?”

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The short answer is yes,” Sanders said eventually. “We all have lunch together every Tuesday, and you’ve got half the caucus running for president, you know? So it is kind of strange.”

“But on the other hand, you know, we have known each other—I’ve known Elizabeth Warren for like 20 years, I’ve known many of the other senators for a long time, and we’re friends,” Sanders added. “Obviously each and every one of us wants to win the nomination. I certainly do. But I think we all understand that no matter who wins, everybody is going to rally around that candidate and defeat Donald Trump. That is most important.”

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2/19 News Roundup & Open Thread – Bernie Sanders announces 2020 run: “We’re gonna win” & More

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Bernie Sanders announces 2020 run: “We’re gonna win”

Sen. Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, announced Tuesday he is launching a bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, hoping to reignite the ardent progressive support of his insurgent 2016 campaign.

“We’re gonna win,” Sanders told “CBS This Morning” co-host John Dickerson. In his second run, Sanders is vowing to launch a grassroots movement that will “lay the groundwork for transforming the economic and political life of this country.”

He stressed that the chief priority for Democrats is to thwart President Trump’s reelection bid next year. “It is absolutely imperative that Donald Trump be defeated, because I think it is unacceptable and un-American, to be frank with you, that we have a president who is a pathological liar,” Sanders said during a wide-ranging interview in his home in Vermont.

“We have a president who is a racist, who is a sexist, who is a xenophobe, who is doing what no president in our lifetimes has come close to do doing, and that is trying to divide us up,” he added.

By joining the most diverse Democratic primary field in U.S. history, the 77-year-old self-described democratic socialist will face more difficulty billing himself as the standard-bearer of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing this time around. In 2016, Sanders mounted a forceful but ultimately unsuccessful challenge against establishment candidate and eventual Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, prompting her to move to the left on several key issues.

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Sanders said he will again campaign on progressive policies like raising the minimum wage, universal healthcare and tuition-free public higher education, making them fundamental issues of his second White House bid. The Vermont lawmaker took credit for the support that these policies, once considered fringe proposals, have garnered among rank-and-file Democrats.

“All of those ideas people were saying, ‘Oh Bernie, they’re so radical. They are extreme. The American people just won’t accept those ideas.’ Well, you know what’s happened in over three years? All of those ideas and many more are now part of the political mainstream,” he said.

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Since Mr. Trump’s election, the Vermont senator has joined his Democratic colleagues in opposing most of the president’s Cabinet and Supreme Court nominees and his policies on immigration, climate change and the tax system. Sanders has called the president a “pathological liar” and vowed to defeat “Trumpism and the Republican right-wing ideology.”

In 2017, his “Medicare for All” legislation was backed by 16 Senate Democrats, including most of the ones who have launched White House bids. Sanders, who has been outspoken in his criticism of U.S. military interventions abroad and has advocated for defense cuts, spearheaded a resolution to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition waging a bloody war in Yemen that passed in the Senate in December.

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11/29 Kickoff of The Gathering at the Sanders Institute; Bernie to Deliver the Keynote

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More about The Gathering from WaPo:

Bernie’s army gathers in Vermont

For the next three days, some of the best-known supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential bid will come together in his city for the Sanders Institute Gathering. Academics, activists, and candidates for lower office will debate their agenda, discussing everything from housing policy to the fate of Puerto Rico. Sanders himself will gave a keynote speech.

And before you ask: No, this is not about whether the independent senator from Vermont will run for president.

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Yet the campaign is coming, with a crowded and unsettled Democratic field that looks nothing like the one Sanders competed in two years ago. No coronation is expected for Sanders — not that he wants one.

Sanders, who released a memoir this week of his “two years in the resistance,” has given every impression that he will run for president again. But after galvanizing voters by running against the party’s “establishment,” and given the peeption that Democrats teed up a nomination for Hillary Clinton, he has not locked up early endorsements or blocked the path for another candidate.

“It’s going to be wide open, with multiple lanes,” said James Zogby, a DNC member and Sanders ally who helped win changes to the party’s primary process. “There’s going to be billionaire lane, a moderate-centrist lane, an establishment lane, and then I think Bernie keeps one lane to himself. He has capacity to mobilize progressives as no one else does, and he’s a proven fundraiser.”

Bernie prefaced his remarks that the main purpose of the conference was to breakthrough the silos in the progressive movement. It’s to make connections, figure out strategies, and mobilize.

This also serves as an Open Thread this evening…discuss away!

11/14 Although There is A Recount Going On, Sick Rott Decides to Attend Freshman Orientation in DC Anyway; News Round-Up & OT

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Rick Scott is in DC for Senate Freshman Orientation as Florida Recount Rages On

Scott stood beside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for a photo op along with incoming Republican freshman senators including Tennessee’s Marsha Blackburn and Missouri’s Josh Hawley Wednesday morning.

The incoming senators will vote for party leadership as well as pose for endless photos and learn where the restrooms are located.

So the question is, did Sick Rott invite himself or did McConnell?

I was gobsmacked by the photo-op on C-SPAN this morning.

Feel free to post your news via excerpts, tweets, and videos. This also serves as an open thread.

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10/6 Weekend News and OT

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Bernie Sanders to campaign for Scholten in Sioux City Scholten, a Democrat from Sioux City, said Sanders would make stops on Oct. 20 in Sioux City and Oct. 21 in Fort Dodge and Ames. Scholten, who is challenging Republican Rep. Steve King, announced Sanders’ appearances during a dinner sponsored by the Woodbury County Democratic Party Friday night. In Sioux City, Sanders will join Scholten at a rally at Morningside College. Along with the visits to Fort Dodge and Ames the next day, Sanders will appear in three of the four largest cities in the heavily Republican 4th district, which covers … Continue reading →

9/24 More Questions Arise about Judge Kavanaugh for SCOTUS Appointment and Open Thread

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Sanders: Kavanaugh allegations deserve “very hard look” Very serious allegations have been made by Dr. Ford,” Sanders said. “Those allegations are going to have to be examined thoroughly. I regarded an outrageous statement by the President of the United States dismissing those allegations. I hope that the Senate takes a very hard look at what she has to say.” Dr. Ford has agreed to an open hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Meanwhile, the AP reports, a second allegation of sexual misconduct emerged against Kavanaugh on Sunday, a development that has forced the White House and Senate Republicans … Continue reading →

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