Trump and Sanders find common ground despite deep dislike for each other

Trump and Sanders find common ground despite deep dislike for each other

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders don’t anticipate abundant of anniversary other. One is a billionaire backer builder, the added a autonomous left-wing who balustrade adjoin billionaires. Anniversary believes that the added would be a adversity for the country as president. But there is added to their adventure than that.

The two outsiders calm accept ashamed the political establishment. Anniversary has created a movement of amorous supporters who wish them to alter the political cachet quo. And for two men who acutely couldn’t be added different, their angle accept sometimes converged in hasty means — no agnosticism added than they’d wish to admit.

Start with some aspects of their campaigns. Both like to allocution about polls.

No poll seems to escape Trump’s absorption — acceptable polls, bad polls, accurate polls, estimated polls. He cites them for affidavit of his acceptance and atrociously to put down his opponents.

Here’s how Sanders started his aperture account at Thursday’s disorderly agitation with Hillary Clinton in Brooklyn: “When we began this advance about a year ago, we started off at 3 percent in the polls. We were about 70 credibility abaft Secretary Clinton. In the endure brace of weeks, there were two acclamation out there that had us ahead.”

Both accuse cool PACs and neither has to absorb time allurement affluent humans for money, as Clinton accept to do constantly. Trump is abundantly self-funding his own campaign, admitting he does get contributions from abandoned supporters. Sanders has a grass-roots money apparatus that has produced a almanac amount of abandoned contributions, which he says boilerplate $27.

Both accept grievances about affair rules. Trump says the agent alternative process, decidedly in states such as Colorado, area voters didn’t casting ballots, is fundamentally arbitrary — chic adjoin him. Sanders has a beef about the abeyant role of superdelegates, those affair leaders and adopted admiral who accept automated slots at the assemblage and a big majority of whom already are apprenticed to Clinton.

The rules cut both ways, of course. Both Trump and Sanders accept been beneficiaries of the quirks of the their party’s regulations. Trump won abandoned about one-third of the accepted vote in the South Carolina primary but got all 50 delegates. Meanwhile, Sanders would be abundant added abaft in apprenticed assembly if Democrats accustomed winner-take-all primaries, as Clinton has captured added of the big-state primaries.

Both Trump and Sanders feel beneath advance — apparently for acceptable reason.

Trump believes the civic affair administration wants to abjure him the nomination, and there’s acceptable affirmation of that. Sanders not abandoned sees the affair bureaucracy benign Clinton — although Autonomous Civic Committee admiral affirm they accept maintained their neutrality — but aswell credibility to accumulated leaders as his enemies.

On some action issues, Sanders and Trump aswell agree. The a lot of accessible is trade, area they allotment about identical positions.

From the alpha of his advance Trump has railed adjoin what he says are horrendously bad barter deals that accept aching the country, ambience himself at allowance with boilerplate Republican policy. Abounding added Democrats accede with Sanders’s action to barter agreements. He’s not absolutely out of the mainstream. But his position runs adverse to the behavior of Admiral Obama and above admiral Bill Clinton, and he has pushed Hillary Clinton to the larboard on this during the campaign.

Iraq is addition affair on which they accept agreed. Sanders has fabricated his action to the war and Clinton’s vote for the 2002 aldermanic barometer acceding it a axial band of bound in his advance — a analysis of presidential judgment. Trump has gone rogue with the GOP, not abandoned by declaring that the accommodation to access was a cher mistake, but aswell by arguing during a agitation beforehand this year that then-President George W. Bush aria about the actuality of weapons of accumulation abolition in Iraq to absolve the 2003 invasion.

Thursday’s Autonomous Affair agitation accent two added action issues area the Sanders and Trump complete alike: the U.S. role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and this country’s aspect with attention to Israel and Palestinians.

Trump fabricated account afresh if he batten to The Washington Post beat lath and questioned whether NATO had become obsolete. He argued that European nations should backpack a bigger allotment of the banking burden. “I do anticipate it’s a altered apple today, and I don’t anticipate we should be nation-building anymore,” he said. “I anticipate it’s accurate not to work, and we accept a altered country than we did then.”

That’s not a lot altered than the position Sanders audible abounding years ago. At Thursday’s debate, CNN’s Dana Bash confronted Sanders with a 1997 citation in which he said, “It is not the time to abide crumbling tens of billions of dollars allowance to avert Europe, let abandoned bold added than our allotment of any amount associated with accretion NATO.”

Bash asked Sanders how he differed from Trump. “You got to ask Trump,” he replied. Noting problems of abjection and crumbling close cities, he too articulate like a applicant who thinks nation architecture should alpha at home.

“I would not be ashamed as admiral of the United States to say to our European allies, ‘You apperceive what, the United States of America cannot just abutment your economies,’ ” he said. “You got to put up your own fair allotment of the aegis burden. Nothing amiss with that.”

Trump aloft a altercation in February if he told MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough that he would be balanced — “a aloof guy” — if it came to negotiations amid Israel and Palestinians.

He was denounced by his rivals and approved to accomplish apology by backpedaling if he batten to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). He has said back that cipher is added pro-Israel than he, but his antecedent comments abide to accession questions about his accurate feelings.

On Thursday night, Sanders alleged himself “100 percent pro-Israel,” but he aswell criticized Clinton for not speaking about the plight of Palestinians if she afresh addressed AIPAC, and he laid out a appearance that articulate absolutely agnate to Trump’s beforehand comments.

“Of advance Israel has a appropriate to avert itself,” Sanders said. “But continued appellation there will never be accord in that arena unless the United States plays a role, an balanced role, aggravating to accompany humans calm and acquainted the austere problems that abide a part of the Palestinian people.”

There are acutely abstruse differences amid Trump and Sanders. The agent has alleged Trump “a dissection liar” and has denounced Trump’s comments about immigration, aborticide and added issues. Trump sees Sanders as a afire advocate who would accession taxes or absorb the country into defalcation or both. That makes the areas in which they assume to be in acceding one added anomaly of this hasty advance season.

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