Post by Logan on May 4, 2016 21:48:10 GMT -6
Bernie Sanders asks Lexington to join his ‘political revolution’
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders asked a Lexington crowd of nearly 5,500 people Tuesday night to join his “political revolution” aimed at taking America back from the billionaires.
Sanders, who is trailing Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, won thunderous cheers by promising to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for free college education, expanded daycare and repairs to the nation’s failing infrastructure. But he reminded his crowd — many of them in their late teens or 20s — that if they want this future, they must show up at the polls on May 17 when Kentucky holds its Democratic primary.
“We win elections — we win primaries and caucuses — when voter turnout is high, and we don’t do well when voter turnout is low,” Sanders said. “Let’s see Kentucky have the biggest voter turnout in its history!”
More than 43 percent of registered voters turned out for Kentucky’s last contested Democratic presidential primary, pitting Barack Obama against Clinton in 2008. Clinton won Kentucky by 35 points but ultimately lost to Obama nationally.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article75722322.html
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders asked a Lexington crowd of nearly 5,500 people Tuesday night to join his “political revolution” aimed at taking America back from the billionaires.
Sanders, who is trailing Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, won thunderous cheers by promising to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for free college education, expanded daycare and repairs to the nation’s failing infrastructure. But he reminded his crowd — many of them in their late teens or 20s — that if they want this future, they must show up at the polls on May 17 when Kentucky holds its Democratic primary.
“We win elections — we win primaries and caucuses — when voter turnout is high, and we don’t do well when voter turnout is low,” Sanders said. “Let’s see Kentucky have the biggest voter turnout in its history!”
More than 43 percent of registered voters turned out for Kentucky’s last contested Democratic presidential primary, pitting Barack Obama against Clinton in 2008. Clinton won Kentucky by 35 points but ultimately lost to Obama nationally.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article75722322.html