Posted on 02/02/2016 5:27:33 PM PST by Kaslin
Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has threatened to skip this Thursday's planned primary debate unless his opponent, Hillary Clinton, agrees to partake in additional debates. According to Sanders' campaign, Clinton is refusing to debate the candidate in New York.
"We are continuing to negotiate with them not just about the debate Thursday night, but about the other debates that we have said need to be agreed to in order to put the whole package of debates together," Tad Devine, a top Sanders campaign official, told The Hill.
"They have not agreed to at least one aspect of it, which is we've asked for a debate in New York, and they do not want to have a debate in New York."
Clinton is urging Sanders to debate her in New Hampshire this week, saying the campaign has met the conditions.
Clinton and Sanders are the only two remaining Democratic candidates after former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley suspended his campaign on Monday evening following the Iowa caucus.
The debate schedule has been a thorn in the Sanders' campaign's side for quite a while. Despite DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schulz's claim that the schedule was meant to maximize exposure to the candidates, ratings have been very low.
Spunky little socialist, isn’t he.
You go Bernie!
No way Hillary agrees to more exposure.
They could do a coin flip about it.
Wait a minute....
She gotcha, Bernie. Whatcha goin’ do about it??
He needs to play up the Clinton cheats and lies bit. It will hit home.
Maybe Bernie shouldn’t have wasted the first debate by taking the email scandal off the table.
He’s gonna have his own little event...... raise money, and give a million dollars of his own money to planned parenthood.
Amon the many dangers of electing Trump, every pol after him will copy his usual antics. He will change the face of politics, and not in a good way.
Such an incredible amount of diversity on display in the
Democratic (Socialist/Communist) Diversity Party of America.
I disagree.
Trump is removing the “kingmaker” role of the media.
That is a very good thing.
i’d pay to watch that if they were good questions :)
whatever happens with the guy, i think he’s changed politics in the US for the foreseeable future.
How so?
May be Trump and Bernie can hold a debate together. National Populist vs International Socialist.
That’s not a threat Comrade Bernie.
That’s exactly what Her Thighness WANTS.
You are Trotsky to her Stalin in her mind.
Your only hope is the FBI and DoJ, Bern, but I applaud you
for trying to whip her ginormous butt and for appearing
to be having success at it.
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