Economics
Sanders Team Loses Testy Fight on Trade Pact, Heads for Fracking Vote
You can't always get what you want, the Democratic runner-up finds.
Sanders: We Have to Do Everything We Can to Elect Clinton
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Bernie Sanders' delegates were thwarted Saturday in their attempt to push amendments blocking the Trans-Pacific Partnership following a tense debate that pitted Sanders backers and the Democratic Party's left flank against Hillary Clinton’s supporters and President Barack Obama.
The vote came as delegates wrapped up two days of wrangling in Orlando, Florida, on the final draft of the 2016 platform, a non-binding and largely symbolic document which will be officially presented at the party's convention in Philadelphia later this month.