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Source: Bloomberg
June 14, 2016 2:55 PM EDT Updated on June 14, 2016 4:37 PM EDT
Bernie Sanders has no plans to concede defeat in the Democratic presidential race to Hillary Clinton when Tuesdays final primary is done, rebuffing pressure from his colleagues in the Senate and from party officials.
In six weeks remaining until the Democratic convention, Sanders said he intends to keep promoting the tenets of his platform: curbing big money in politics, reducing income inequality and raising taxes to make health care a universal entitlement.
Sanders made clear hes running less a campaign for the Democratic nomination than an effort to overhaul the Democratic National Committee leadership and its rules, which hes repeatedly said have favored Clinton.
The time is long overdue for a fundamental transformation of the Democratic Party, Sanders said at a news conference in Washington. That includes replacing the Democratic National Committee leadership, requiring all primaries to be open to independents and Republicans and doing away with the superdelegates that were a crucial base of support for Clinton.
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