Liberal group MoveOn.Org ready to kick-off $1 million campaign
In the last few months, the liberal activists inside the Democratic Party have been organizing around the possibility of a long-shot presidential run by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, not Sanders’ seemingly more likely run.
Liberal groups have been pining for a Warren run for months and on Tuesday, a coalition of groups announced they would kick off their efforts in New Hampshire with a rally and plans to open local offices. This comes despite the fact Warren bluntly said “no” when asked if she was running in 2016.
Sanders’ hope, although he is somewhat loathe to admit it, is that he will someday get that same support.
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Sanders would rather have voters know his policies, than his favorite vacation destination or his childhood icons.
- On college affordability, Sanders wants to pull money from defense and other government priorities to help fund public universities and bring down the cost of education.
- On campaign finance, the senator reiterated his disdain with Citizens’ United — a 2010 Supreme Court decision that opened the flood gates to outside campaign spending — but said he would not “commit unilateral disarmament” and disavow all super PAC activity.
- And on healthcare, Sanders said he would push for a “Medicare for all” plan that would likely dismantle much of the Affordable Care Act.
In Sander’s view, it was personality — not policy — that elected former President George W. Bush, someone the independent says was a “very nice guy … but the worst president this country has had.”
“I think the media, and I have to throw this back at you guys, makes it too easy to cover my grandchildren,” he said. “Or Mitt Romney’s dog riding on the top of his car. Very interesting, but it is not important.”
