CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 Democratic primary contest (all times local):
4:30 p.m.
Vice President Mike Pence says Democratic presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders is "wrong about Cuba."
Pence was asked about Sanders’ “60 Minutes” comments praising the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro for establishing a literacy program.
Pence says, “For Bernie Sanders to tout a literacy program in the midst of the tyranny of Cuba is just truly remarkable.”
The vice president adds that he and President Donald Trump are “going to make this election a choice between freedom and socialism, and I have every confidence the American people will choose freedom once again.”
He says Democrats "are on the verge of nominating as their party’s standard-bearer someone who embraces the economic philosophy that has impoverished nations for generations."
Pence's remarks came Monday during a White House program with the Hoover Institution.
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2:55 p.m.
Pete Buttigieg has been hounded by protesters during a march with McDonald’s workers in Charleston, South Carolina, who are striking for a $15 minimum wage.
The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, had joined the workers, who were organized for Monday's march by the nationwide Fight for $15 movement. He lined up alongside the largely black crowd of red-shirted workers at the front of the march, helping to carry a sign that read “Racial Justice = Economic Justice.”
But when Buttigieg tried to speak to the marchers, he was shouted over by a group of Black Voters Matter protesters chanting, “Pete can’t be our president, where was $15 in South Bend?” The protesters continued until Buttigieg cut his remarks short after just five minutes and started to leave.
But heading to an SUV waiting to drive him away,...
