Michael Bloomberg would win only 16% of the vote in a three-way presidential race among the former New York mayor, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. In the hypothetical match-up, Mr. Sanders, a Vermont senator running as a Democrat, would win 43%, while Mr. Trump, a Republican, would win 33%.

Mr. Bloomberg, a former three-term mayor of New York City, has said he is considering a run for the White House this year, attracted by Mr. Trump’s success among the Republican field and what he perceives as the weakness of Hillary Clinton, the front-runner in national polling in the Democratic race.

Mr. Bloomberg said earlier this month he was “looking at all the options” and called the current presidential campaign “distressingly banal” and “an outrage and an insult to the voters.”

In recent years, Mr. Bloomberg has been best known for positions anathema to the Republican base. He has expended considerable energy and money in a national push for new gun control laws, and has been widely mocked for his campaign toward the end of his mayoral tenure to limit the size of soft drinks sold in restaurants, movie theaters and sports venues.


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Below is a rush transcript of MSNBC and Telemundo's Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Town Hall moderated by José Díaz-Balart and Chuck Todd live from Las Vegas on Thursday, Feb. 18 from 9-11 p.m. ET / 6-8 p.m. PT.


http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/transcript-msnbc-telemundo-clinton-sanders-town-hall-n520781

PRESS RELEASE


Sanders’ Odds in Nevada Looking Up



FEBRUARY 18TH, 2016






LAS VEGAS – Liking his chances here, Bernie Sanders returned to Nevada on Thursday saying that he thinks the outcome of Saturday’s caucuses will be “very close.”

Said Sanders: “We’re working very hard to get a large voter turnout and if we do I feel confident we can win.”

The first western state contest in the Democratic presidential nominating process comes after Sanders’ victory over Hillary Clinton on Feb. 9 in New Hampshire and a come-from-behind virtual tie with the one-time Democratic Party front-runner on Feb. 1 in Iowa.

“Our campaign has the momentum,” Sanders told reporters during a cross-country flight to Las Vegas. “The American people are catching on,” that the “real issues facing this country” are a corrupt campaign finance system, a broken criminal justice system and a rigged economy.

“No state more than Nevada understands the impact of Wall Street’s greed and illegal behavior. Thousands of Nevadans lost their jobs, their homes and their life savings,” the U.S. senator said

Sanders, who helped lead the effort against the deregulation of Wall Street before the recession, wants to reinstate the 1933 Glass–Steagall Act, which separated commercial and investment banks. He also has called for breaking up the biggest banks on Wall Street that hold a grip on credit cards and home mortgage lending.

Unlike Clinton, whose super PAC has collected millions of dollars from Wall Street, Sanders does not have a super PAC and his campaign has been funded by more than 3.7 million individual contributions recently averaging about $27 apiece.

Sanders enjoys especially strong support in Nevada and elsewhere among working families and young people, including growing numbers of Latinos and African-Americans. “This is the future of the Democratic Party,” he said.

Earlier Thursday, Sanders met in Washington, D.C., with leaders of nine of the nation’s major civil rights organizations. His campaign dismissed attacks by Clinton campaign surrogates on his record. “Clearly, the Clinton campaign, once anointed by the establishment as the inevitable winner of the Democratic nomination, is now getting very nervous and is making increasingly reckless attacks,” said spokesman Michael Briggs.




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PRESS RELEASE


Are Wall Street Donors Managing Clinton’s Campaign?



FEBRUARY 18TH, 2016


LAS VEGAS – The New York Times reported yesterday that in a meeting held in a large Wall Street investor’s office, big-money donors instructed Secretary Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook to go after Sen. Bernie Sanders for offering so-called “unrealistic proposals” and by claiming that all his solutions are related back to “millionaires and billionaires.”

Not surprisingly those are exactly the attacks that the Clinton campaign is now dutifully lobbing.

“One of the biggest differences between our campaigns is that Bernie’s campaign does not take its marching orders from Wall Street and big-money donors,” Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, said. “It’s shameful that the Clinton campaign is parroting attacks at Sen. Sanders that The New York Times has documented come right from her big-money backers. Now we are beginning to get a glimpse into what goes on in all those closed door meetings with Wall Street interests.”

The mega-donors also asked Mook to highlight the Clinton campaign’s support from small donors. But just 17 percent of her individual contributions last year came from small-dollar donors, compared to 74 percent for Sanders. Nearly 60 percent of her campaign committee’s money came from donors who gave the legal limit to her campaign.




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