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In reply to the discussion: Sanders stumps for Mello in Omaha, stirs national debate about definition of a progressive [View all]delisen
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and misrepresents Clinton's statement in primary. Democratic Party and Clinton on Sanders "enemies list?'
Am I a Liberal elite because I believe women's rights are human rights?
Nebraska is a caucus state; the Omaha caucus voted for Sanders. I think the caucuses are elitist.
The new office of Head of outreach is also elitist.
(CNN)Bernie Sanders criticized Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign in Boston Friday night at a progressive rally alongside Sen. Elizabeth Warren, saying the Democratic nominee's loss revealed the need for the "fundamental restructuring of the Democratic Party."
The Vermont senator also said some Democrats believe the voters who backed President Donald Trump are racists, xenophobes and "deplorables," a word Clinton famously used.
"I do not agree," he said.
"It wasn't that Donald Trump won the election, it was that the Democratic Party lost the election," Sanders added.
He ran through Democratic losses in recent years -- checking off the Republican-controlled House, Senate, governor's offices and state legislatures -- before saying that Republicans are "a right-wing extremist party who has an agenda that most Americans soundly and roundly disagree with."
"How in God's name do they win elections?" Sanders said. "And the reason is, in my view, that the time is long overdue for fundamental restructuring of the Democratic Party. We need a Democratic Party which is not the party of the liberal elite but a party of the working class of this country.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/31/politics/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-boston-rally/