Bernie Sanders’ New Ads: 2 Ads Make Powerful Case For Bernie Sanders As New York Primaries Approach
Bernie Sanders is releasing new ads as the New York primaries approach. One was released on Saturday, and another was released Sunday night.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Sanders’ campaign released a new television ad produced by film director Spike Lee. It features singer and activist Harry Belafonte, along with other civil-rights activists, rallying for Sanders as someone who is cognizant of the plights that racial and religious minorities face. The ad is set to air before the April 19 primary in New York. Sanders is “is seizing on a dust-up last week between the husband of his rival, Hillary Clinton, and a pair of protesters over crime and social-welfare policies dating back to the 1990s.”
CNN had more information on the Bernie Sanders’ ad that features various surrogates for his campaign speaking directly at the camera.
“People of color have a deeply vested interest in what Bernie Sanders brings to us in this election,” Belafonte says.
Activists Erica Garner and Shaun King heap praise on the Vermont senator.
Muslim-American activist Linda Sarsour ends the ad with: “Bernie Sanders sees all of me. He sees all of you. He sees us as a whole people, as a whole country. That’s why I’m voting for Bernie Sanders.”
ABC News reports that another 30-second ad that was released Sunday night that extols Sanders’ “New York values.”
With photos of construction workers, children playing, subways, and bridges, a narrator begins: “New York what makes it think bigger? Go bolder? Push for a living wage that’s higher?”
It continues: “Tuition-free public college. Justice that works for all. For a middle class that must be saved.”
The ad then moves to scenes of young people in Sanders’ crowds while he’s at the podium.
“New York values, forged in New York. Brooklyn born. Native son… Who knows what we know: we’re all in this together,” the narration concludes.
Sanders’ new TV ad is out to show he’s still Bernie from the block (in Brooklyn) https://t.co/pZhx8HKXCW pic.twitter.com/l6kx7vnL8F
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 11, 2016
The ad labels Sanders as a true New Yorker, one who stands for its values and fights for the middle class.
In other news, Sanders is advancing his rhetoric against Hillary Clinton’s husband, Former President Bill Clinton. The Democratic presidential candidate is making the case that during Mr. Clinton’s time in office, he did little to help African-Americans. This segment of the population is also among some of Hillary Clinton’s most loyal supporters.
Former President Bill Clinton yelled at Black Lives Matter protestors who were incensed that his wife used the term “super predators” when describing violent criminals who had no conscience of their crimes back in the 1990s when her husband signed a tough crime bill as murder rates were soaring.
“I don’t know how you would characterize gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out on the street to murder other African-American children,” Mr. Clinton said on Thursday while campaigning for his wife in Philadelphia. “Maybe you thought they were good citizens. She didn’t.”
Sanders immediately spoke out against Clinton’s term of “super predators”… spelling out that it was code for “young blacks.”
In spite of Mr. Clinton’s clash with BLM, he’s still very popular among Democrats and his wife is leading the way with support from African-Americans.
Sanders Believes Clinton Campaign Is Done Playing Nice – @ABC News. GO BERNIE!!!!!!! https://t.co/9NESWIjUUC
— Wally Callahan (@Wally_Callahan) April 11, 2016
Bernie Sanders predicts a huge upset in the New York primaires. The New Yorker reports that Sanders’s supporters believe he can win New York’s election if he gets between 35 and 45 percent of the black vote, but that calculation also depends on him doing well outside of New York City. Clinton is predicted to win a lot of votes in Long Island — and Westchester, where she has a home. Sanders has hopes of doing well in the Hudson Valley, where a major environmental movement exists — as well as fracking, which Sanders wants to ban.
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