As Sanders barnstormed across the country to defend Obamacare, his rallies looked like a new fusion in the party — partly the Sanders faithful, but they were complemented by organizations and voters who had been faithful to Hillary Clinton too.

About 10 minutes after Sanders concluded one speech in downtown Pittsburgh in late June, Jared McCray and his sister remained behind the crowd. They looked out at the empty stage where Sanders had just stood.

“This is about people’s lives,” said McCray, echoing a line from Sanders’s speech.

Both had refused to support Clinton in the general election. “We have no regrets” about sitting out the election, said McCray, 24, a touch defensively.

Though they wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton, they had showed up to a rally to defend Obamacare, in part because they feared the impacts of the Republican bill’s Medicaid cuts. The “Bernie or Bust” voters who wouldn’t defend President Barack Obama’s legacy against Trump last November now, suddenly, were.

“I’ve been trying to persuade my mom that she was misled by Trump and that Bernie wouldn’t betray her like this,” Hill said.

The work behind the scenes also reflected how Sanders’s tour for Obamacare patched up the old party divisions, at least temporarily.

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:Attacking the media yet again today via twitter

Sad!

thephan wrote:

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:Attacking the media yet again today via twitter

Sad!

We clearly know 2 things:

1) what DJT's definition of working hard is (tweet-tweet-tweet)

and

2) he found his phone

pacino wrote:time to get past 2016 and wake up to the new normal.

thephan wrote:Trump News Network shaping up. A direct line to propaganda. First his daughter-in-law and now Kayleigh McEnany show up on his Facebook page from Trump Tower. The though that the sitting president's chess move is to start and finance a "news channel" to communicate his message is extremely unsettling.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/polit ... 70806.html

06hawkalum wrote:

thephan wrote:Trump News Network shaping up. A direct line to propaganda. First his daughter-in-law and now Kayleigh McEnany show up on his Facebook page from Trump Tower. The though that the sitting president's chess move is to start and finance a "news channel" to communicate his message is extremely unsettling.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/polit ... 70806.html

The only people that will be influenced by that propoganda machine are committed Trumpies.

thephan wrote:
In case you are wondering, the surrogate are out n force as I heard two different sources reminding us about the massive success Trump has had turning the economy around, and making it scream (how is that playing out in Youngstown, Huntington, etc.).

06hawkalum wrote:

thephan wrote:Trump News Network shaping up. A direct line to propaganda. First his daughter-in-law and now Kayleigh McEnany show up on his Facebook page from Trump Tower. The though that the sitting president's chess move is to start and finance a "news channel" to communicate his message is extremely unsettling.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/polit ... 70806.html

The only people that will be influenced by that propoganda machine are committed Trumpies.

pacino wrote:

06hawkalum wrote:

thephan wrote:Trump News Network shaping up. A direct line to propaganda. First his daughter-in-law and now Kayleigh McEnany show up on his Facebook page from Trump Tower. The though that the sitting president's chess move is to start and finance a "news channel" to communicate his message is extremely unsettling.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/polit ... 70806.html

The only people that will be influenced by that propoganda machine are committed Trumpies.

she's the official GOP spokesperson now

pacino wrote:

06hawkalum wrote:

thephan wrote:Trump News Network shaping up. A direct line to propaganda. First his daughter-in-law and now Kayleigh McEnany show up on his Facebook page from Trump Tower. The though that the sitting president's chess move is to start and finance a "news channel" to communicate his message is extremely unsettling.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/polit ... 70806.html

The only people that will be influenced by that propoganda machine are committed Trumpies.

she's the official GOP spokesperson now

JUburton wrote:

pacino wrote:

06hawkalum wrote:

thephan wrote:Trump News Network shaping up. A direct line to propaganda. First his daughter-in-law and now Kayleigh McEnany show up on his Facebook page from Trump Tower. The though that the sitting president's chess move is to start and finance a "news channel" to communicate his message is extremely unsettling.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/polit ... 70806.html

The only people that will be influenced by that propoganda machine are committed Trumpies.

she's the official GOP spokesperson now

must be nice to be young, white, pretty, and have absolutely zero morals or regard for the truth

Duterte has faced intense international criticism for a brutal drugs crackdown since coming to power last year.

Some 7,000 people were killed in between June 30, 2016, and Janurary 2017, according to Human Rights Watch, with many deaths attributed to the Philippines National Police.

However, Tillerson said that there was “no big contradiction” in providing assistance to the Philippines in spite of human rights concerns.

“We see no conflict at all in our helping them with that situation and our views of the human rights concerns we have with respect to how they carry out their counter narcotics activities.”

When asked by reporters later what had been he discussed during his meeting with Tillerson, Duterte refused to answer.

"Human rights, son of a bitch," Duterte said, arguing he shouldn't be questioned about alleged violations given the challenges he's facing. "Policemen and soldiers have died on me. The war now in Marawi, what caused it but drugs? So human rights, don't go there."