While the Iowa caucus, the first leg of the Democratic nomination contest for the presidential election of November 3, was held on February 3, "Le Monde" launches its campaign logbook. A daily update, first of all five days a week until September, with campaign facts, political advertisements, polls, maps and figures that allow us to follow and experience the most important electoral competition in the world.
Bernie Sanders had so far been relatively spared in the Democratic debates. The situation changed on Tuesday, February 25, in South Carolina, four days after his wide success at the Nevada caucuses that propelled him to the exposed spot as favorite of the presidential nomination contest. After initial salvos, the senator from Vermont, dean of the electoral competition, pretended to have fun: " I hear my name a lot tonight, I wonder why. "
In this South Carolina that former vice-president Joe Biden could win on Saturday, thanks to his seat with African-American voters, Bernie Sanders certainly expected criticism of his plan to create universal health protection, private companies that insure the majority of Americans. The senator replied again without encrypting it. He limited himself to challenging any form of radicalism in this proposal as in others that he was the only one to defend. All rely on generous federal funding.
After attracting criticism for his laudatory remarks about the educational policy of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, on March 23, Bernie Sanders was again questioned about his past indulgence for authoritarian leftist regimes. The senator took refuge behind words spoken by Barack Obama, it is true in Havana, during a historic visit.
He then became indignant at certain American interventions in Latin American countries, even going back to the overthrow of the Iranian Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, in 1953. " When dictatorships, whether the Chinese or the Cubans do something good, it must be recognized ", He assured. The senator persisted in his outspoken criticism of Donald Trump's Israeli policy, saying he might consider relocating the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv if elected to the White House.
