Though democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) interrupted Little Village correspondent Stacey Walker to deny ever having been afforded high marks from any entity in the gun lobby, the NRA grants the Democratic Socialist a C- rating — a grade as substantially lower than any GOP candidates’ as it is higher than any current […]
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Watch: Bernie Sanders on a woman in the White House and the campaign questions that matter more
When asked about the potential watershed moment of a female president in a recent interview with Little Village, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says, “I would hope that all of us want to break down every sexist barrier that exists. We wound like to see a woman in the White House, we would like to […]
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Watch: Bernie Sanders names Obama’s biggest mistake
In a recent interview with Little Village, Bernie Sanders expressed his admiration and fondness for President Barack Obama, but highlighted their “major political disagreement,” which he says came after Obama “ran his brilliant campaign in 2008.” “Young people all across the political spectrum, [he] brought ‘em together!” he says of the sitting president, but after […]
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Watch: Bernie Sanders on Black Lives Matter, militarized police and the insidious prison industrial complex
Shortly after his campaign stop in Seattle, Washington was interrupted by two Black Lives Matter activists, Bernie Sanders enlisted Symone Sanders as his national press secretary to augment his campaign’s racial justice awareness and shape related public policy. “Clearly we have a failed criminal justice system,” he said in this interview with Little Village‘s Stacey […]
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Watch: Bernie Sanders calls for political revolution, says no president can enact student loan reform without the U.S. populous
When asked about student loan reform and the inaccessibility of higher education for millions of young Americans in a recent interview with Little Village, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says, “We need a political revolution that brings tens of millions of people together in a way that we are not right now so that we can […]
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Watch: Bernie Sanders talks support for medicinal marijuana, decriminalization
In addition to being a Vermont state Senator, Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is both the former governor of Vermont and the former mayor of Burlington, where marijuana possession is decriminalized — a state-wide measure Sanders says he supports. “If you are possessing a small amount of marijuana it should not be a criminal offense, it should […]
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Watch: Bernie Sanders says there should be accountability for Iraq war crimes
When asked about the possibility of prosecuting members of the Bush Administration for war crimes commited in Iraq and Afghanistan, democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told Little Village, “Torture is not what the United States of America should be about.” Those who made the decision to transgress on what the United Nations calls […]
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Watch: Bernie Sanders says Hillary Clinton is his toughest competition, but believes he can win the race
In a recent interview with Little Village, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said he was all too aware of his competition in the 2016 presidential race. “Obviously I am running against a woman who is well known, who’s husband was president, who ran for president,” he said of Hillary Clinton. “We,” he said of his own […]
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Bernie Sanders to make stops in Iowa City and Marion this weekend
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is hitting Iowa hard this weekend. The Vermont Senator will make at least eight campaign stops…
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Bernie Sanders schedules late-May trip to Iowa City
Bernie Sanders will return to Iowa later this month as part of a four-day campaign swing across New Hampshire and the Hawkeye State. The Vermont senator will visit his hometown of Burlington, Vermont on Wednesday, May 26 for a campaign kickoff celebration before spending the next four days in New Hampshire and Iowa, including a […]
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Independent or Democrat: How might Sen. Bernie Sanders run?
Since 2013, Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has spent more days in Iowa than any other likely Democratic candidate for president…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders Campaigns in Waterloo and Dubuque
On the same weekend that a coy Hillary Clinton was eating fried steak in Indianola, across the state, in an under-the-radar red-meat stump speech that was literally a call for a “political revolution,” Senator Bernie Sanders made clear his intentions to crowds in Dubuque and Waterloo that he would run for the nation’s highest office.
