Bernie Sanders stumps for ex-rival, as she stumbles with younger voters

“The cornerstone of Donald Trump’s campaign is bigotry, is dividing us up”, he thundered.

His pitch for Clinton, at least among millennial voters, comes as polls show Trump closing the gap Clinton enjoyed after the conventions and young voters, who have the numbers to decide the election, are not enthralled by their choices.

However, Trump has opened up leads in key swing states like Florida, Iowa and oh – and is closing fast in Colorado, Nevada and North Carolina. Sanders is stumping in two of them: Pennsylvania and Ohio. “Fine”, Sanders said, as if speaking to those supporters veering off to a third party. In a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, Clinton earned support from just 31 percent of voters under the age of 35 in a four-way race.

Now, the Clinton campaign hopes to use Sanders’ star power among Millennials to get younger voters – who are historically underrepresented at the polls – to turn out in swing states. Look, what media does is focus on Trump’s personality and Clinton’s personality and my personality.

“To be frank with you, I don’t think the Democratic Party has been anywhere as strong as it should be”, Sanders said.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Friday urged Americans considering voting for third-party presidential candidates to instead vote for Hillary Clinton, painting Donald Trump as a risk that the country can not afford.

Sanders was to speak on Clinton’s “New College Compact” plan, which would allow 150,000 OH students to attend a four-year college and pay no tuition, according to a report from the campaign. “If you go through the issues – raising the minimum wage, pay equity, family leave, making public colleges and universities tuition free, climate change – on all of those issues and many, many others, clearly Hillary Clinton is far and away the superior candidate“, he told USA Today in an interview. Younger Republicans like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz fell short in their bids this year, and Clinton passed over younger Democrats like Cory Booker and Julián Castro in favor of Tim Kaine, who is 58.

That was exactly what Bernie Sanders, another Democratic contender to the presidency, said nearly a year ago. At one of the final rallies of the Sanders campaign, in California, Kate Tanaka said she’d always voted Green and would do so again if Sanders wasn’t on the ballot.

Sanders couched his support in personal terms, citing a meeting he and Teachout had attended years ago opposing the North American Free Trade Agreement and calling Teachout’s House race the clearest battle on the map between the “oligarchy” and the progressive left.

Sanders also said in the same news conference that the two major parties would never create the kind of real change that was needed.

“You go issue by issue and I think you expose him for the fraud that he is”, Sanders said.

The strategist, who worked on Al Gore’s 2000 campaign, recalled that “an very bad lot” of young voters in states like Washington, Oregon and Wisconsin told pollsters they supported independent candidate Ralph Nader.

Yet some also said they’re thinking strategically. He said voters in OH need to stop Trump.

But other Clinton supporters believe the best advocate may be Michelle Obama, whom they want in battleground states as much as possible between now and Election Day.