April 25, 2016
Bernie Sanders is facing long odds heading into Tuesday's primary in Pennsylvania and four other states, but he's reminding voters that he began his campaign nearly a year ago with little support for or belief in his candidacy.
The Vermont senator said at a Monday rally at Drexel University that while "no one dreamed we could go anywhere," he has won 16 states by "telling the truth."
Actors Susan Sarandon and Kendrick Sampson also spoke at the rally, attended by hundreds inside the college's athletic center and thousands more outside the building in University City.
Sanders reiterated what he sees as his major differences with Clinton, including campaign finance, trade and support for a carbon tax. He told the audience that his candidacy is asking people to "think outside of the status quo."
His opponent, Hillary Clinton, said she will aim to have a Cabinet that is half women if she is elected president.
During an MSNBC town hall Monday evening at the National Constitution Center in Old City, host Rachel Maddow asked Clinton if she would match a pledge that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made — and kept — to appoint women to half of his Cabinet positions.
"I am going to have a Cabinet that looks like America, and 50 percent of America is women," she said.
She also said she didn't set any conditions for supporting Barack Obama when she exited the primary race in 2008 and says she hopes "we will see the same this year."
Maddow asked Clinton if she would consider adopting any of Bernie Sanders' platform to win over his supporters should she become the nominee.
The candidate said she is "winning because of what I stand for and what I've done and what our ideas are."
Clinton said that when she lost the nomination to Obama in 2008, "I didn't say, you know what, if Senator Obama does X, Y and Z, maybe I will support him."
In addition to Pennsylvania, Democratic and Republican primaries will be held in Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
