“The trade deal is a disaster, she was always for it!” “Tonight, she showed why she should be President”. Not really. She held her spot and didn’t do anything to knock herself out of the championship hunt.
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Until now, Ms Clinton and Mr Sanders – who has emerged as her toughest competition – have circled each other cautiously and avoided personal attacks.
Clinton’s explanations on Benghazi fell short, however.
“I think that we have the opportunity through the states that are pursuing recreational marijuana to find out a lot more than we know today”, she said.
Sanders put forward passionate arguments for reducing income inequality, insisting he was not a part of the “casino capitalist” system.
Sanders drew the largest applause line of the evening when he refused to criticize Clinton for doing a few State Department business on a private email, a scandal thaat has preoccupied the Republican led Congress for months.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will finally come face to face to clash on a wide variety of issues as they look to convince voters to give them their support. Sanders stuck to the plan that’s had him surging in the polls but his embracing of the “socialist” label is scary to many.
Earlier in the debate, Clinton and Sanders did square off over gun control, but that was one of the only times the two frontrunners approached a direct and tense confrontation.
“Let me say something that may not be great politics, but I think the secretary is right, and that is that the American people are sick and exhausted of hearing about your damn emails”, he said.
You can count on Sanders to stick to his liberal talking points and he didn’t disappoint.
The victor? Clinton, but just barely. The email issue has shadowed her rollout of numerous policy positions and has hurt her standing with voters.
Let’s face it – the real battle among Democrats is Clinton and Sanders.
Chafee has changed parties from Republican to Independent and finally to Democrat. Of course, there wasn’t much that could be lost, as he’s now polling at about 1 percent.
Our D.C. Bureau Chief, Jacqueline Policastro, was also on hand for the debate.
Sheryl Crow sings the national anthem as O’Malley and Sanders sing along silently with her. “Which enemy are you most proud of?”
Lincoln Chaffee, Martin O’Malley and Jim Webb round out the five candidates who took the stage and have experience ranging from Secretary of the Navy to serving as a member of the House of Representatives. Among them, he said, were the collapse of the middle class and the number of young people looking for decent jobs.
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Chafee comments that he is like a “block of granite” when it comes to his stances on issues.
