Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders gave impassioned interviews Sunday, following disagreements the two had in Thursday night’s Brooklyn debate.
Clinton and Sanders sparred over campaign fundraising, and over the implementation of a 15 dollar minimum wage.
On the Republican side, fallout from Trump campaign manager’s Corey Lewandowski’s alleged battery on former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields feud continued. Fields stuck to her guns. Lewandowski refused to apologize for pulling her away from Trump by the arm after an event in Florida.
Donald Trump called John Kasich “a nobody” and Clinton said she didn’t care that Trump is now calling her “Crooked Hillary.”
This, and more:
Trump convention chief: ‘There’s not going to be a second ballot’: A top aide to Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Sunday that there will only be one ballot at the Republican convention this summer, with Trump winning.
“The dialogue and the narrative of this campaign isn’t focusing on the real issue,” Trump convention manager Paul Manafort said on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday. “The real issue is there’s not going to be a second ballot.”
Michelle Fields: ‘Corey lied, Donald Trump lied’: Former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields stuck to her guns Sunday in her first televised appearance since battery charges were dropped against Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
“Corey lied. Donald Trump lied. They defamed me,” Fields said on “Reliable Sources.” The Trump campaign “went on this huge smear campaign against me, and I think it sheds light on the character of campaign,” Fields said.
Trump: Kasich is a nobody: Donald Trump slammed Republican rival John Kasich as someone nobody knows two days before New York’s primary. Speaking in Staten Island on Sunday, Trump said the Ohio governor is “interesting” because he’s never faced a negative commercial. “Nobody’s ever hit him. Nobody knows he’s there, and so he does well. He does okay,” Trump said. “Because nobody talks about him.”
Clinton brushes off Trump nickname: Hillary Clinton said Sunday that she is not worried about Donald Trump’s new nickname for her — “Crooked Hillary.” “I don’t respond to Donald Trump and his string of insults,” Clinton said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Clooney agrees with Bernie backers: Fundraisers are ‘obscene’ and he ‘sucked’ as Batman: George Clooney said Sunday that he could not quibble with a Bernie Sanders supporter who told him during a protest: “You sucked as Batman.” “I said, ‘Well, you sort of got me on that one,'” the actor said in an interview aired Sunday on “Meet the Press.”
Trump: Colorado took voters out of election because of me: “They keep saying ‘we didn’t change the rules’ … they totally did,” Trump said Sunday. “I came out in June, they saw I was going to win Colorado easily with the voters, which is most important, so they changed the rules and they took the voters out of it and they had the party bosses make the selection.”
Trump manager slams RNC for elitist rules: “Ted Cruz does well in places where party bosses set the rules and people don’t get to go and vote,” Lewandowski said. Lewandowski charged that the Republican Party’s system for choosing delegates favors donors and not ordinary people. His attack, during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” comes as Ted Cruz is winning extra delegates in states where Trump won the popular vote.
Priebus: Rules changes before convention ‘too complicated’: In an interview Sunday morning on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Priebus conceded there are flaws in the GOP nominating process, but said he doesn’t think it’s a good idea for “serious” rules changes before the convention. He even admitted to calling committee members to urge them to balk on any changes for now.
RNC chairman to Trump: ‘There’s no room for threatening the delegates’: “There’s no room for threatening the delegates or the convention or anybody that would be going to our national convention,” Priebus said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” referring to Trump’s threat the GOP would face a “rough July,” if they try to deny him the presidential nomination. “If he was winning the majority of the votes, he’d have a majority of the delegates. But that is not actually what’s happening,” Priebus said, noting that Trump has won only a plurality of votes.
Trump manager refuses to apologize to Fields: Donald Trump’s controversial campaign manager refused to apologize to a former Brietbart reporter who has alleged he manhandled her. Corey Lewandowski said on “Fox News Sunday” that he has never met Fields. He called an apology “unrealistic.” “To apologize for someone I have never spoken to is a little unrealistic right now,” Lewandowski said, noting that he would have a conversation with Fields.
Kasich tells supporters of religious freedom laws: ‘Get over it’: John Kasich said Sunday that people who favor laws allowing businesses not to serve gay couples need to “calm down” and “get over” their opposition to lifestyles that differ from their own. “What I’d like to say is, just relax,” Kasich said on CNN.
Sanders doesn’t regret vote for controversial crime bill: “It’s a big bill and had a lot of stuff in it,” the Vermont senator said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday. “It had the ban on assault weapons, something that I believed firmly.” Sanders noted the massive 1994 legislation had beneficial provisions targeting domestic violence.
