Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign raised $1.4 million in one day, following attacks on his healthcare plan by Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea.<\/p>\n
While Democrats have managed to (mostly) avoid mud-slinging, particularly in contrast to their Republican counterparts, the campaign took a dirty turn when the Clintons falsely suggested that Sanders\u2019 single-payer health care plan would leave millions of Americans unprotected.<\/p>\n
\n29 million Americans still have no health insurance. We must resolve that health care is a right, not a privilege of those who can afford it<\/p>\n
\u2013 Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\nThe fact-checking website PolitiFact confirmed the average household would save between $505 and $1,823 per year under Sanders\u2019 Medicare-for-all proposal, thus debunking assertions made by the Clintons this week.<\/p>\n
Sanders is enjoying a bump in popularity with rising poll numbers, donations, and a key endorsement from the powerful political group MoveOn.<\/p>\n
He also received praise from Vice President Joe Biden for his gun record and the historic campaign he is running.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real. And he has credibility on it,\u201d<\/em> Biden said in an interview with CNN.<\/p>\nWith the first contest just weeks away, the Vermont senator is leading the former secretary of state by five points in Iowa and 14 in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n
Clinton\u2019s 20-point national lead has shrunk to seven points, according to a New York Times and CBS poll on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Sanders\u2019 campaign spokesperson Michael Briggs thanked the Clinton campaign on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs of now, we are at about $1.4 million raised since yesterday when the panic attacks by the Clinton campaign began,\u201d<\/em> he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve gotten 47,000 contributions. We\u2019re projecting 60,000 donations. Even for our people-powered campaign, this is pretty darn impressive.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nClinton denied feeling nervous about the direction of her campaign on the NBC morning show Today, instead saying she was \u201cexcited about where we are.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nWhile Sanders has relied on an unprecedented level of grassroots support, his team might expand its TV ad campaign with the new infusion of cash.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Via RT<\/a>.\u00a0This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign raised $1.4 million in one day, following attacks on his healthcare plan by Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea. While Democrats have managed to (mostly) avoid mud-slinging, particularly in contrast to their Republican counterparts, the campaign took a dirty turn when the Clintons falsely suggested that Sanders\u2019 single-payer health […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-216228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}