Sanders' Record vs. Clinton's Rhetoric

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Contrasting his record and her rhetoric, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday laid out key differences with Hillary Clinton in their contest for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

"People need to know the difference between hastily-adopted campaign rhetoric and the real record and long-held ideas of the candidates," Sanders said during a news conference at a labor union hall. He spelled out differences with Clinton on trade policy and talked about the difference between his people-powered campaign and her Wall Street-bankrolled Super PAC.

He called for overturning the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United. The disastrous 2010 decision led to creation of super PACs, like Clinton's Priorities USA, which take unlimited sums from millionaires and billionaires. There is what Sanders called "a very profound difference" between his campaign -- funded by more than 4 million individual donations averaging $27 apiece -- and Clinton's super PAC, which in the last half of 2015 raised $25 million from powerful special interests including $15 million from Wall Street.

"Now I know that every candidate who has ever received special-interest money always says that the millions of dollars they receive will never influence them. Never, never, never. Well, Americans need to ask a simple question. If these contributions from powerful special interests have no influence over the candidates, why are they making huge campaign contributions?" Sanders asked.

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