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Bernie Sanders Throws Supporters Under the Bus — Again

by Joel B. Pollak Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that his supporters were, in fact, “living in their parents’ basements,” as his former rival, Hillary Clinton, had said at a secretly-recorded fundraiser in February. It was the latest betrayal in Sanders’ continuing capitulation to the Clinton machine, which began with the first Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas last October, and became impossible to ignore at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July. The first days of the convention were marked by spirited protests by Sanders supporters from the floor of the Wells Fargo… View Article