Sanders’ rise and the “Russian connection”

Anyone but Bernie, cries the Establishment

BERNIE Sanders has won the Nevada primary and won it well. He scored heavily among young voters and among Latinos. More importantly his appeal was right across the Democratic electorate in this rather distinctive state.
Las Vegas, pictured as the gambling and gangster centre of the desert state is, in fact, a union stronghold with some 57,000 members of the Culinary Workers Union alone.
Union membership is a bit above the national average and union organising in a state like Nevada is a tough call. The distinctive feature of this state poll was that union members did not follow the lead of their union, which advised against a vote for Sanders on rather spurious grounds that his universal health care scheme would undermine their existing contracts, and the dissident senator finished well in front.
Read more at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/anyone-bernie-cries-establishment

Intelligence Officials Sow Discord By Stoking Fear of Russian Election Meddling

February 24, 2020
Another presidential election year is upon us, and the intelligence agencies are hard at work stoking fears of Russian meddling. This time it looks like the Russians do not only like the incumbent president but also favor who appears to be the Democratic front-runner, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
On Thursday, The New York Times ran a story titled, “Lawmakers Are Warned That Russia Is Meddling to Re-elect Trump.” The story says that on February 13th US lawmakers from the House were briefed by intelligence officials who warned them, “Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected.”
The story provides little detail into the briefing and gives no evidence to back up the intelligence officials’ claims. It mostly rehashes old claims from the 2016 election, such as Russians are trying to “stir controversy” and “stoke division.” The intelligence officials also said the Russians are looking to interfere with the 2020 Democratic primaries.
Read more at https://original.antiwar.com/Dave_DeCamp/2020/02/23/intelligence-officials-sow-discord-by-stoking-fear-of-russian-election-meddling/

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‘2016 all over again for Bernie’: Trump blames Adam Schiff for ‘Russiagate’ Sanders leaks

23 Feb, 2020
President Donald Trump has blamed House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for leaking a report on a supposed Russian effort to support Bernie Sanders’s campaign. “It sounds like it’s ‘16 all over again,” Trump said.
As Sanders surged in the polls, the Washington Post ran an article on Friday describing a covert Russian effort to help the Vermont senator win the Democratic nomination. The article did not specify “what form that Russian assistance has taken,” and provided no evidence, only assertions from anonymous intelligence officials.
Sanders’s campaign was briefed on the supposed Russian plot, but President Trump stated on Sunday that his administration received no such warning, despite the article’s claim that he had.
“Nobody said it to me at all, nobody briefed me about that at all,” Trump told reporters outside the White House.
Read more at https://www.rt.com/usa/481520-trump-schiff-sanders-russia/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Email