How Donald Trump is running to the left of Hillary Clinton

EUGENE, Ore. — At a campaign rally here in one of the most liberal towns in America, Donald Trump offered praise for an unusual party: avowed Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.  “Now, I’m no fan of Bernie Sanders, but he is 100 percent right,” Trump told a crowd here this weekend. “He is 100 percent right: Hillary Clinton is totally controlled by the people that put up her money. She’s totally controlled by Wall Street.”  That’s not the only area where the presumptive Republican nominee sounds like Sanders, who is challenging Clinton for the Democratic nomination. On a series of issues ranging from free trade to foreign military intervention, Trump is effectively running to the left not only of his own party, but also to the left of Clinton.  Read article