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6 Ways Bernie Sanders Will Challenge Hillary Clinton
6 Ways Bernie Sanders Will Challenge Hillary Clinton
BY KIRA LERNER
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Income Inequality
One of the central components of self-described “socialist” Sanders’ campaign will be addressing the same economic problems that Clinton has recently vowed to prioritize. According to Vermont Public Radio, his message will be that the middle class has been decimated in the past two decades. “This country faces enormous problems,” he said on MSNBC. “Our middle class is disappearing. We have more people living in poverty than almost any time in the history of America.”
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Trade
Sanders is opposed to all trade deals including the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the Obama administration plans to complete by the end of the year. He has called it “disastrous” and that it is “designed to protect the interests of the largest multi-national corporations at the expense of workers, consumers, the environment and the foundations of American democracy.”
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Keystone XL
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Health Care
Sander stands further to the left than Clinton on health care and has criticized the United States’ lack of a national health system. “In every major country on Earth, health care is a right of all people,” he said during a Senate hearing. He has introduced legislation to provide health care through a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system, and while he supports the Affordable Care Act, he said in 2010 that it’s “only a modest step forward toward dealing with the dysfunction of the American health-care system.”
Social Security
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Wall Street
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) insists she does not plan on running for president, so Sanders will likely be the most prominent Democratic challenger to take on Clinton’s ties to Wall Street. Some of Clinton’s longtime supporters work on Wall Street and would pull their contributions if she were to speak out against them.
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http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/04/30/3652790/bernie-sanders-announcement/
BY KIRA LERNER
<...>
Income Inequality
One of the central components of self-described “socialist” Sanders’ campaign will be addressing the same economic problems that Clinton has recently vowed to prioritize. According to Vermont Public Radio, his message will be that the middle class has been decimated in the past two decades. “This country faces enormous problems,” he said on MSNBC. “Our middle class is disappearing. We have more people living in poverty than almost any time in the history of America.”
<...>
Trade
Sanders is opposed to all trade deals including the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the Obama administration plans to complete by the end of the year. He has called it “disastrous” and that it is “designed to protect the interests of the largest multi-national corporations at the expense of workers, consumers, the environment and the foundations of American democracy.”
<...>
Keystone XL
<...>
Health Care
Sander stands further to the left than Clinton on health care and has criticized the United States’ lack of a national health system. “In every major country on Earth, health care is a right of all people,” he said during a Senate hearing. He has introduced legislation to provide health care through a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system, and while he supports the Affordable Care Act, he said in 2010 that it’s “only a modest step forward toward dealing with the dysfunction of the American health-care system.”
Social Security
<...>
Wall Street
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) insists she does not plan on running for president, so Sanders will likely be the most prominent Democratic challenger to take on Clinton’s ties to Wall Street. Some of Clinton’s longtime supporters work on Wall Street and would pull their contributions if she were to speak out against them.
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http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/04/30/3652790/bernie-sanders-announcement/
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