Bernie Sanders and Beto O'Rourke face off in Iowa, with both Democratic hopefuls reintroducing themselves as the man with a plan to deny President Donald Trump a second term.
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during the National Action Network Convention in New York, Friday, April 5, 2019.
Other hopefuls fanned out to political hot spots elsewhere, with much the same mission: Gauging early strength in a crowded field and raising enough money to secure a coveted spot in the presidential debates that begin in June.“I’d be happy with any of ’em, to be honest,” the president said of the Democratic derby.Iowa Democrats know Sanders, the Vermont senator who lost the state — and the Democratic presidential nomination — to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
To solve the problem, he offered a number of proposals to help students “stop digging the hole” and stop taking on debt when they go for a college degree: Making community college free, allowing students to earn an associate degree while they’re in high school so they’re “ready to earn a living wage on day one,” increase access to union apprenticeships.
Hickenlooper sat down on Saturday with Anthony Thompson and Polly Sheppard during a visit to Mother Emanuel AME Church in downtown Charleston. Both Thompson and Sheppard told Hickenlooper they want those kinds of reforms in South Carolina and elsewhere.Sen. Michael Bennet told reporters in Nashua, New Hampshire, that he hopes to be on the move again a few weeks after surgery for prostate cancer.
“If your message is ‘not-Trump,’ it’s not going to work,” the Democratic presidential hopeful told about 500 supporters who packed a high school gymnasium in Reno, Nevada. “Our job is to talk about our vision.”
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