![]() ![]() Questions of when and how to weigh in on matters of national security has plagued the Sanders campaign for weeks. Obviously ISIS is a huge national issue, which we have got to address, but so is unemployment, so is education, so is health care,” he added. You want to ask me about ISIS? We will talk about ISIS. We’re talking about a community in which kids are unable to go to schools which are decent. “We’re talking about a community in which there are hundreds of buildings which are uninhabitable. “Of course I’ll talk about ISIS, but today what we’re talking about is a community in which half of the people don’t have jobs.” “What about ISIS?” he replied, coming back to the podium microphone defensive and agitated. In the end, the Vermont senator was asked, though, if he specifically did not want to talk about the terror organization. Prior to the news conference, Sanders’ campaign reminded the media of the purpose of the event and asked only for questions “on topic,” in particular, not about ISIS. Sanders commented that the neighborhood, with dilapidated homes and boarded up windows, looked like “a third world country,” and after the walk he stood alongside pastors for a news conference they hoped would focus on economic issues such as unemployment and education. — - In an effort to continue to focus the national spotlight on income and racial inequality, Bernie Sanders visited West Baltimore today and toured the neighborhood of Freddie Gray, the young African-American man whose death while in police custody sparked riots in the city last spring. ![]()
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