The liberal and progressive energy that has risen up to meet Trump, Booker added, existed -- or should have -- before the 2016 election. The New York senator rounded out her program by offering, like Booker and Warren, some scripture and, all alone, positing the creation of "a universal jobs program." Before turning over the stage to Gillibrand and Booker, Sharpton went a step further in making plain the purpose -- one of them, at least -- of the coming speeches. They're on what we call a 'temperature tour' -- they're trying to test the temperature to see if they should announce." Both at Duke and in New York, Sanders turned to the Martin Luther King Jr.'s April 1967 speech on the Vietnam War.

Source: CNN April 21, 2018 00:11 UTC