{"id":279671,"date":"2016-11-17T10:38:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T09:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-would-have-been-elected-us-president-bernie-sanders\/"},"modified":"2016-11-17T18:40:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:40:16","slug":"i-would-have-been-elected-us-president-bernie-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/i-would-have-been-elected-us-president-bernie-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"I would have been elected US president: Bernie Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Former US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has said that\u00a0he could have defeated Republican nominee Donald Trump in a general election, rejecting the notion that his campaign undermined Hillary Clinton&#8217;s chances of winning the White House. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Independent senator, who was seeking the Democratic Party\u2019s presidential nomination, made the remarks at an event at the George Washington University on Wednesday night when a Washington Post reporter asked whether he hurt Clinton&#8217;s chances at the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can argue the exact reverse \u2014 that maybe I would have been elected president of the United States,&#8221; Sanders said to cheers from the crowd. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The presumption behind that question is that we should anoint candidates for president, that a serious debate or candidates competing against each other is a bad thing for democracy,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Vermont senator said that he brought &#8220;millions of people into the process&#8221; and that the vast&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/11\/17\/493977\/US-president-Sanders-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has said that\u00a0he could have defeated Republican nominee Donald Trump in a general election, rejecting the notion that his campaign undermined Hillary Clinton&#8217;s chances of winning the White House. The Independent senator, who was seeking the Democratic Party\u2019s presidential nomination, made the remarks at an event at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-279671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279671","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=279671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}