x Reverend Hart introduces @BernieSanders at a town hall mtg on race & inequality in Milwaukee, WI. #FeelTheBern pic.twitter.com/w4VQSyXlaX — People For Bernie (@People4Bernie) April 2, 2016

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"Thank you Eau Claire," said Sanders as he walked on stage. He started by talking of the campaign and how he's won six of seven recent contests against his opponent Hillary Clinton. "With your help....I believe we'll do just fine in Wisconsin." He then went on to talk about the "rigged economy" and how the middle class paying higher taxes are subsidizing the upper class. "...that has got to change". In his discussion on the economy, he cited one of the country's largest employers, Walmart, for its low pay and how some of their workers receive welfare. "Pay them a living wage." .. One issue that touched a nerve with the young crowd was education and student loan debt. Sanders said that if the country wanted the best trained workforce, "Why are we punishing people for getting an education." He then went on to talk about his tuition-free college plan. Sanders said the money to pay for it would come from the imposition of taxes on Wall Street speculation. "Congress can bail out Wall Street...we can help the middle class in our time of need. On student loan debt, he offered a plan that would allow people to refinance their loans at the lowest interest rates they can find. In speaking to WQOW's Emma Wheeler prior to his speech, Sanders said, "And when people have that education, what they will then do, is be able to start businesses and create jobs themselves, and you expand the economy, and you grow the economy. It's what we've got to do. Bottom line here is we do not succeed internationally unless we have the best educated workforce in the world."

x Could we see a second-half comeback from Bernie Sanders? https://t.co/f0yd3CuiTD pic.twitter.com/8qF5OPSqL9 — Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) April 3, 2016

x Bernie Sanders addresses a crowd estimated at 3,400 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin pic.twitter.com/ucbtTJ4RvN — John Wagner (@WPJohnWagner) April 2, 2016

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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders criticized Wisconsin’s voter ID law, vowed to end fracking and pledged to fight for the working class during a boisterous campaign stop Saturday afternoon at UW-Eau Claire. As supporters held aloft signs calling for people to “Feel the Bern” and stating “Wisconsin Needs a Political Revolution,” the Vermont senator delivered an enthusiastic, more than hourlong speech calling for voters to show their support for his vision of a future not controlled by the rich by setting a Wisconsin turnout record in the state’s presidential primary Tuesday. .. Supporter Japheth Onchonga, 33, of Altoona, who scored a prime spot on the risers behind the podium and was thrilled that his 9-year-old daughter Harmony Jones got to shake the senator’s hand, said Sanders’ comments about income inequality resonated with him. “We need someone who’s actually fighting for the people,” said Onchonga, who was still clutching his “A Future to Believe In” campaign sign after the event. Sanders reserved some of his harshest criticism for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and other Republican governors who have taken what he called “cowardly” steps to put obstacles between voters — particularly those who are young, old, minority and low-income — and the voting booth. In his many election campaigns, Sanders said, “Never did it occur to me that I have to make it harder for people to vote because they might vote against me.” In an interview with the Leader-Telegram just before his speech, the candidate said a Sanders presidency would move the country in the “exact opposite” direction that Walker has taken Wisconsin. Unlike Walker, Sanders said, if elected, he would make it easier, not harder for people to vote and join unions, and would ensure that corporations pay their fair share of taxes.

x Clinton, Sanders camps duke it out over New York debate scheduling https://t.co/pV657gDtsJ | AP Photo pic.twitter.com/OOm9WNabLo — POLITICO (@politico) April 3, 2016

x Doubts about what DNC is trying to pull off? Look at the dates they suggested for the NY debate. #FeelTheBern pic.twitter.com/G9D1vH44z8 — Bill Cimbrelo (@Bill_Cimbrelo) April 2, 2016

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The debate over debates continued Saturday, as the Hillary Clinton campaign accused the Bernie Sanders camp of rejecting three possible dates ahead of the New York primary. The Sanders campaign, however, responded that they have proposed other dates the Clinton campaign has rejected. "Over the course of the last week, we have offered three specific dates for a debate in New York, all of which the Sanders campaign rejected," Clinton's national press secretary, Brian Fallon, said in a statement today. "The Sanders campaign needs to stop with the games." The Clinton campaign offered to debate Sanders on Monday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m., as well as on Thursday, April 14, and on ABC News' "Good Morning America" on Friday, April 15 -- a date and time the Sanders campaign had originally signed off on, Fallon said. "Senator Sanders and his team should stop the delays and accept a debate on April 14 on the morning of April 15th," Fallon added in the statement. The Sanders campaign quickly fired back at the Clinton campaign. "We are very pleased that Secretary Clinton finally has accepted our request for a debate about the needs of New York and America. Unfortunately, the dates and venues she has proposed don't make a whole lot of sense," Sanders communications director, Michael Briggs, said in a statement. "The idea that they want a debate in New York on a night of the NCAA finals -- with Syracuse in the tournament no less -- is ludicrous. We have proposed other dates which they have rejected. We hope we can reach agreement in the near future."

x "Let the world know that Wisconsin is prepared to go forward with a political revolution." https://t.co/E0TBeYLJSE #FeelTheBern — Bill Cimbrelo (@Bill_Cimbrelo) April 3, 2016

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Hillary Clinton snapped at a Greenpeace protester. She linked Bernie Sanders and tea party Republicans. And she bristled with anger when nearly two dozen Sanders supporters marched out of an event near her home outside New York City, shouting "if she wins, we lose." "They don't want to listen to anyone else," she shot back. "We actually have to do something. Not just complain about what is happening." After a year of campaigning, months of debates and 35 primary elections, Sanders is finally getting under Clinton's skin in the Democratic presidential race. Clinton has spent weeks largely ignoring Sanders and trying to focus on Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Now, after several primary losses and with a tough fight in New York on the horizon, Clinton is showing flashes of frustration with the Vermont senator — irritation that could undermine her efforts to unite the party around her candidacy. According to Democrats close to Hillary and former President Bill Clinton, both are frustrated by Sanders' ability to cast himself as above politics-as-usual even while firing off what they consider to be misleading attacks. The Clintons are even more annoyed that Sanders' approach seems to be rallying — and keeping — young voters by his side. .. Sanders adviser Tad Devine said the senator was not encouraging his supporters to disrupt Clinton's events and was focused on his own message. But he also said the campaign would respond when Clinton mischaracterizes Sanders' records and positions. Her attacks, he said, only help Sanders. "When your attacks against your opponent feed the biggest weakness that you have, you are undermining yourself," said Devine.

x Campaign manager Jeff Weaver on Clark County, Nevada Democratic Convention: pic.twitter.com/XPDR4dRSAs — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 2, 2016

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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders scored a surprise victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday at the Clark County Democratic Convention, where Sanders won the largest number of delegates a month after losing the Nevada caucuses. Long lines, a packed convention center and the controversial suspension of the county party’s credentials chair threatened to disrupt the operation of the convention throughout the day. But after five hours of registration and check-in, thousands of people had packed into the Cashman Center, and by early evening, the delegates had been counted and Sanders announced as the winner. The county convention was the second in a three-step process for Nevada to choose its delegates to send to the Democratic National Convention this summer. The first was the February caucuses, the results of which are used to apportion 23 of the delegates Nevada will send to the national convention. The second step, the county convention, is when delegates are selected to the state convention in May. The third step is the state convention, when 12 more delegates are apportioned based on attendees’ preferences. Nearly 9,000 delegates were elected on caucus day in late February, but only 3,825 showed up to Saturday’s convention. An additional 915 elected alternates and 604 unelected alternates also turned out to support their favored candidate. The final delegate count was 2,964 for Sanders and 2,386 for Clinton. That means the Sanders campaign will send 1,613 delegates to the state convention, while the Clinton campaign will send 1,298. “We pretty much won Nevada,” said Sanders’ state director, Joan Kato, smiling as the results were announced.

x Did Bernie Sanders Win Nevada? 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know https://t.co/TM0oSFRvh6 #NVCaucus #StillSanders pic.twitter.com/U6gVXmPwef — Women For Bernie (@Women4Bernie) April 3, 2016

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Stroll among the warehouses in the Gowanus neighborhood and you’ll find gritty industrial parts of Brooklyn giving way to hipster chic. A coffee shop decorated with taxidermied animals. Men who favor fashionably chunky glasses, women who wear high-waisted jeans. A local hot spot that serves salted honey pie along with “wild foraged edibles.” And judging from conversations with store owners, pubgoers, and signs in the windows, the boss of this cool realm, at least for the next week or so, is Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. The Democratic presidential candidate, who was born in Brooklyn, opened a New York office in this eclectic neighborhood late last month, laying the groundwork for a campaign to take on Hillary Clinton in her adopted home state. In a race that continually tests Clinton’s aura of inevitability and reveals her vulnerabilities as a candidate, the state’s former US senator has to win the April 19 primary in New York to avoid a walloping psychological blow. Sanders’ move — opening an office just a healthy walk from Clinton’s national headquarters in an office high-rise in Brooklyn Heights — made the borough the symbolic center of a contest that underscores the competing forces in their tense rivalry. Battle lines are drawn through neighborhoods brimming with traditional party loyalists backing Clinton and younger Sanders supporters clamoring for revolutionary change.

x Sydney Australia is Feeling the Bern! We've been phone banking fr @BernieSanders for a few hours! #FeelTheBern https://t.co/2hi8qIvsXJ — YoungPPL4Bernie (@YoungPPL4Bernie) April 3, 2016

x Young People of Color in the S. Bronx On Why They’re Backing @BernieSanders https://t.co/aHzUSTIWgF #FeelTheBern pic.twitter.com/ew0inN10yq — Millennials 4 Bernie (@Bernlennials) April 2, 2016

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With Wisconsin citizens casting their votes in the Democratic primary this week, Bernie Sanders held a rally in Eau Claire Saturday where Bon Iver frontman and Wisconsin native Justin Vernon introduced the Vermont senator to the crowd of supporters. The singer's remarks begin at the 5:30 mark of the above video. "With the vacancy in the office of the President of the United States, there lies an opportunity. For some of the candidates, I feel the personal and political nature of this opportunity has eclipsed their obligation to the people, and some have lost sight to the idea that every person is created equal," Vernon said. "That every person has the right to have their life protected within the integrity of justice, their liberties celebrated and their pursuit of happiness fully allowed. I feel that Senator Sanders looks at this as not a personal opportunity but as a charge with which only he has the courage and ability to fulfill." Vernon joins the long list of musicians lining up to lend their support to the Vermont senator's campaign: Run the Jewels' Killer Mike has frequently stumped for Sanders, while Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig and Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth performed with the candidate at an Iowa City rally. The Red Hot Chili Peppers staged their own Sanders fundraiser, Phish's Jon Fishman - a longtime Bernie supporter - campaigned on the senator's behalf and Michael Stipe explained in a video to Rolling Stone why he's supporting Sanders' Democratic run.

x Julien voted early for Bernie in Wisconsin! He can #FeelTheBern b/c Bernie fights for economic equality! #WIPrimary pic.twitter.com/K3pUXBZ4jG — People For Bernie (@People4Bernie) April 2, 2016

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"If everybody shows up to vote, Bernie Sanders will be the next President of the United States," predicts Michael Moore, the provocative filmmaker whose Fahrenheit 9/11 remains the highest-grossing documentary of all time. "But first," he adds, "he has to get through the hurdles of the Democratic Party, which does not want him as their nominee." Moore is firmly in the camp of Sanders, the most left-wing Democratic candidate in decades, so he hardly qualifies as a dispassionate observer. But he pays far more attention to the politics of the US than most, and is convinced the only way Donald Trump could become the next president – assuming the Republican establishment doesn't find some way to block his seemingly inevitable nomination – is if he squares off against Hillary Clinton rather than Sanders. But given the Democratic establishment feels much the same way about Sanders as the Republicans do about their frontrunner, surely the prospect of a Trump presidency must loom large in his nightmares. "I would say don't worry too much right now," says Moore. "Keep this statistic in mind: 81 per cent of this country is either women, people of colour or young adults under the age of 35. That's who's voting this year, and Mr Trump has done marvellously offending all three of those groups of people. The chance of him winning is only possible if people stay home on election day."

x Grassroots campaigning at its best in Milwaukee's Lower East Side. The revolution is people-powered! #FeelTheBern pic.twitter.com/Snqg0iroLj — People For Bernie (@People4Bernie) April 2, 2016

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American elections are peculiar instruments of democracy, because they are so consistent in whom they leave out. In the past three Presidential elections, about forty-five per cent of those eligible to vote chose not to. And although this fact has been the subject of some public-spirited anxiety, it has generally not troubled political scientists too much, because it seemed as if non-voters had more or less the same view of the parties as voters did. Stretch the electorate to two-thirds of those eligible, or three-quarters, or make voting mandatory, and it has long seemed that the votes would be distributed in roughly equivalent proportions: about half the vote for Democrats, half for Republicans, with some variability reserved for the shape of current events. ... In 2013, the political scientists Jan Leighley, of American University, and Jonathan Nagler, of New York University, published the results of a study that compared, among other things, the political views of voters and non-voters, dating back to 1972. On most social issues (abortion, L.G.B.T. rights), there was no measurable difference between them. Non-voters were more inclined toward isolationism. (Leighley and Nagler thought this might be because non-voters knew more soldiers than voters, and were more reluctant to see them sent into conflict.) The difference on economic matters was much more dramatic. Non-voters, Leighley and Nagler found, favored much more progressive economic policies than voters did. They preferred higher taxes, and more spending on schools and health care, by margins that hovered around fifteen per cent. “The voters may be representative of the electorate on some issues,” Leighley and Nagler wrote, “but they are not representative of the electorate on issues that go to the core of the role of government in modern democracies.” That non-voters had the same partisan preferences as voters only seemed to strengthen the finding—they wanted more redistribution regardless of whether they were Democrats or Republicans. As unpredictable as this Presidential campaign has been, its two most successful outsider candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, have in this sense followed established patterns: they have run campaigns that seemed perfectly matched to the preferences of people who do not normally vote. Both Sanders and Trump have done little to distinguish themselves from their parties on social issues, but they have moved to their parties’ left on economic matters and suggested that they would be more skeptical of international entanglements. If you were targeting non-voters on the right, you would design a campaign that looked very much like Donald Trump’s. If you were targeting non-voters on the left, you would emphasize almost exactly the same issues as Bernie Sanders. .. One story that you could tell about the second half of the Obama Presidency is that the politics of the country have been pushed along by movements—Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Tea Party—that are not basically about the contest between Democrats and Republicans but, rather, emanate from outside them. The scope of what counts in politics, of whose voices matter, has been broadened beyond those who normally vote. No one knows whether these populist tendencies will abate or change each of the parties, but this year it is clear that the traditional biases of electoral politics have given way to the more various terrain beneath them. The influence advantage that voters have over non-voters is more tenuous; the distance between the concerns of the campaigns and the experience of the country has narrowed. This election season has been strange and often alarming, but that is in part because it has been aimed at a broader audience—because it has been, in some crude ways, more democratic than what came before.

Bozeman was feeling the Bern on Saturday as more than 100 supporters from across the state rallied and marched for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The crowd, led by Bozeman for Bernie organizer Andy Boyd, gathered outside the Gallatin County Courthouse before marching down Main Street to Soroptimist Park. “I’ve never really been involved in politics ever,” Boyd told the crowd of energetic onlookers. “Bernie brought me out because he wants to get big money out of politics.” Campaign finance reform was on the minds of many supporters, who sported Sanders shirts and hoisted homemade signs with slogans like “Bernie is not for sale,” “Sanders vs. the establishment” and “Deeds not words.” “He represents a path to the government we should have. He represents the common people, not corporate interests,” said 51-year-old Stewart Mitchell. Sanders, an independent U.S. Senator from Vermont, made it onto the ballot for Montana’s June 7 primary after supporters submitted more than twice the required number of signatures in February. Supporters said they are optimistic about Sanders’s chances in the June primary and plan to host more gatherings in the coming months, including marches and events where campaigners make calls to out-of-state voters.

x Hello Fresno. Looking ahead to #CAPrimary these boards are now up to urge support for @BernieSanders #FeelTheBern pic.twitter.com/JfZiM6HLOw — NationalNursesUnited (@NationalNurses) April 2, 2016

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Dozens of Lompoc-area residents marched down one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares Saturday afternoon with the dual purpose of promoting presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and encouraging locals to get involved in the political process. The Sanders supporters held signs and waved at passing motorists as they marched south down H Street from the Mission Plaza shopping center near the Central Avenue intersection. The gathering was organized by local resident William Jacobs, whose initial inspiration was to increase the Democratic candidate’s name recognition among local voters. “I’ve been campaigning for (Sanders) here since October and I got really tired of people saying, ‘Bernie who?’ and ‘What are you talking about?’” Jacobs said. “Obviously that’s changed a little bit somewhat now as he’s getting known, but I thought it was important that the people of Lompoc get out and show that we care about Bernie and that there is another candidate and another choice.” .. Along with promoting Sanders, Jacobs said he also was hopeful that Saturday’s event would energize local residents about the upcoming election and cut into some of the area’s voter apathy — even if people don't necessarily support Sanders. “I’d really like to see more people be involved in the electoral process,” he said. “I think it’s important as an American that you go out and vote.”

x Hey Madison- I am beyond excited to say we're performing at a rally for @BernieSanders tomorrow!!!!! #FeelTheBern pic.twitter.com/epk8lnPFZb — Best Coast (@BestCoast) April 2, 2016

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