Ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is widely perceived to have delivered a strong performance in Tuesday’s debate, and a few analysts say that could make it more hard for Vice President Joe Biden to make a late entry into the 2016 presidential race.
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Sanders even got a handshake from Clinton when, at one point, he rose to her defence. She proved to be a polished debater, showing little rust after enduring 25 debates during the 2008 campaign. “I said I have answered all the questions”. Sanders said Sunday he was not a capitalist, and Clinton was quick to offer a distinction. “And we did it by leading with principle, not by pandering to the NRA and backing down to the NRA”.
“Because what I worry about is what will happen with ISIS gaining more territory, having more reach, and, frankly, posing a threat to our friends and neighbours in the region and far beyond”. And it was Sanders who leapt to her defense.
“In my view, Congress doesn’t regulate Wall Street, Wall Street regulates Congress”, Sanders said.
He went on to argue that his vision for politics was akin to Scandinavian nations with strong health care systems and social safety nets. “I love Denmark. We’re the United States of America”, Clinton said. The email issue has shadowed her rollout of numerous policy positions and has hurt her standing with voters.
“No, not at all”, Clinton said. As the senator from a rural state, what I can tell Secretary Clinton is that all the shouting in the world is not gonna do what I would hope all of us want, which is to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have those guns, and end this terrible violence that we are seeing.
Yet in a moment of political unity and levity Sanders leapt to Clinton’s defence on the issue of her controversial email practices as secretary of state.
CNN’s first Democratic debate of the season scored a bigger online audience than its first Republican debate, according to the network’s internal measurements. Like Sanders’ record on gun control, Clinton’s position may be rooted in her parochial interests as a former senator from New York, where many big banks are headquartered. Jim Webb struggle for attention, and Sanders cut into Clinton’s lead, somewhat surprisingly.
Three other candidates – former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, former Virginia Sen.
Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley supporters also had a campaign table.
Clinton aides have long pointed to the debate as a turning point for the campaign, an opportunity to move past their summer slump and boost them into the more intense fall primary. The four men on stage showed they lack the ability and will to take her on.
O’Malley warned of a deep crisis of “economic injustice that threatens to tear our country apart”.
Sanders took a veiled swipe at Clinton by calling the Iraq war, “the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country”. Will he go after Clinton on her vote to permit the costly war that Americans broadly say wasn’t worth it? When she said that the US response in Libya “was smart power at its best”, in that the United States “will not lead this”.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders also need to play the money game. Bernie Sanders. Although Sanders communicated his platform with confidence and authority, the popular candidate’s delivery lacked Clinton’s even temper.
He was also questioned about his oversight of the Veterans Affairs Department during his time as chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee. “He valued my judgment, and I spent a lot of time with him”. She was thought to have learned from the mistakes of her first presidential campaign, in 2008.
Donald Trump, the current Republican frontrunner, earned derisive mention as well.
Democrats focused on the middle class and its problems in their first debate on Tuesday night on CNN.
The debate starts in Sin City at about 6pm local time (1200 AEDT on Wednesday).
“Sorry, there is no STAR on the stage tonight!” he wrote. And through both his purple tie and extensive research-to make it look so damn good. “I don’t think he should be brought home without facing the music”, Clinton said. But she can stand out by touting gun control, where Sanders’ progressive credentials are weak, and her proposals for equal pay for women and family leave.
“I’m proud of Hillary Clinton”.
The next Democratic debate is scheduled for November. 14, at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
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After the debate, former US President Bill Clinton came out in his wife’s support. But he didn’t announce a decision in time to join the debate.
