But that call for pragmatism doesn't mesh with the main message Sanders has been delivering this week: a call for a more aggressive and progressive Democratic party. Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders gained roars of approval from a friendly crowd on Monday, April 17, 2017, as he called for a radical transformation of the Democratic Party into a grassroots movement founded on the tenets of his unsuccessful Democratic presidential campaign: fighting against the billionaire class and rigged economic and political systems. Perez also is convinced that by talking directly to the voters that Sanders draws to events, he can start to earn their trust. In November, Trump won 118 of Kentucky's 120 counties, including Elliott County, which had never voted for a Republican presidential candidate in its 147-year history.
Some Democrats say Sanders is headed in the right direction, but must do more.
The anti-DNC catcalls that had plagued early stops on the uneasy allies' weeklong unity tour hadn't surfaced.
During the 2016 primary, Sanders scarcely visited Florida and was crushed by Clinton, who garnered about two-thirds of the vote statewide, and an even larger share in Miami-Dade and Broward. "I say yes, we do". I asked him what exactly he meant by that.
In remarks to NPR, Sanders, who is pro-choice, argued that "the truth is that in some conservative states there will be candidates that are popular candidates who may not agree with me on every issue". "They understand that the recent Republican health care proposal which would have thrown 24 million Americans off of their health insurance, substantially raised premiums for older workers and defunded Planned Parenthood while, at the same time, providing nearly $300 billion in tax breaks to the top 2 percent is a disgraceful idea", Sanders and Perez wrote in the statement. They believe more people in the country are on their same page.
The effort to breathe new life into the Democratic Party rolled into Louisville, Kentucky Tuesday night. In the same interview, he blamed Republican gains at the state and federal level on "the failure of the Democratic Party to have a progressive agenda, to bring people into this party, to mobilize people". "And that's what I'm running around this country trying to do".
Sen. Bernie Sanders' multi-state unity tour with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez continued for a fourth day in North Texas, where he addressed a crowd of almost 2,000 at the Verizon Theater.
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DNC Chairman Tom Perez was on hand to hear the speech and introduced the senator. "Last year's election should've sounded the alarm". And these are voters that they really need to have on board.
Perez praised Sanders' ability to energize voters, and Sanders in turn did not shy away from discussing reforms he still thinks the party needs to make.
SHAPIRO: Had a little audio glitch there.
BERNARDO: You took someone that had corporate backing and that's what you got. Perez has tried tough talk to bond with the audiences.
These fault lines are hardly new, but they were magnified after Clinton lost to Trump in November - a result that was more roundly shocking than the Sanders brigade, which has made a meme of its claim that "Bernie would have won", might now let on.
Perez rallied the crowd before Sanders took the stage by calling Trump the "most unsafe president in American history" and urged them to stand up for Democratic values. "Stop fiddling around in my organization if you can't make that necessary step".
DETROW: The symbolic nature of this is not that subtle from the Democrats.
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