U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’s embrace of voting rights for all prison inmates, even for the most-violent offenders while they are still doing time, is just the kind of stance that will hand President Trump the Rust Belt states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, according to John Samuelsen, the Transport Workers Union’s International president.
“I don’t agree with him on this,” he said during a phone interview. “You can’t have a vicious human being like a Timothy McVeigh be able to vote on who should lead the country he attacked,” referring to one of the terrorists behind the 1995 truck bombing of a Federal building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people and injured more than 600 others.
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