Sanders: Revolution is ‘just getting started’

Associated Press

NEW YORK

Bernie Sanders told a roaring crowd of supporters Thursday that his campaign is “just getting started” fighting economic inequality, changing the Democratic Party and bolstering Democrats running for Congress.

Speaking in Manhattan, Sanders took something of a victory lap as he reviewed the states he won and the fact that many young people flocked to his campaign over presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s. He did not mention her name, let alone endorse her as leading Democrats have urged.

“Our goal from day one has been to transform this nation, and that is the fight we are going to continue,” Sanders, his voice hoarse, told supporters who packed venue called The Town Hall near Times Square. “We have got to make sure that [Republican presidential candidate Donald] Trump is not president. But that is not good enough.”

Meanwhile, Former Secretary Clinton failed to turn over a copy of a key message involving problems caused by her use of a private homebrew email server, the State Department confirmed Thursday. The disclosure makes it unclear what other work-related emails may have been deleted by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

The email was included within messages exchanged Nov. 13, 2010, between Clinton and one of her closest aides, Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin. At the time, emails sent from Clinton’s BlackBerry device and routed through her private clintonemail.com server in the basement of her New York home were being blocked by the State Department’s spam filter. A suggested remedy was for Clinton to obtain a state.gov email account.

“Let’s get separate address or device but I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible,” Clinton responded to Abedin.

Clinton never used a government account that was set up for her, instead continuing to rely on her private server until leaving office.

In Donald Trump’s camp, the real-estate mogul said Thursday he’d prefer to use his own companies’ resources for campaigning without paying them.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee responded to complaints by donors and others that his campaign has paid millions of dollars for event space at venues controlled by his own companies. Previous political candidates have carefully separated their business ventures from political efforts.

An Associated Press analysis of Federal Election Commission filings found that the Trump campaign spent about $6 million on Trump products and services, as well as reimbursing family members for travel.