Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders raised more than $1.3 million in the first four hours after the Democratic debate began, according to his campaign.
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Clinton showed herself to be smart, experienced, and, in her words, an “outsider” because she would be the first woman president.
Onstage, Sanders conceded that it might not have been “good politics” to shut down debate on Clinton’s State Department emails, but his gambit seems to have paid off, literally.
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It was Mrs Clinton’s strongest showing so far on the campaign trail and she came across as well briefed and putMr Sanders, her closest rival, under pressure.
Clinton also quickly tried to undercut Sanders’ image as a liberal icon, seeming to catch him a bit by surprise with a swift attack on his mixed record on gun control legislation in the early moments of the debate.
“I think it was a game-changer”, said Steve Elmendorf, a Clinton-backing DC lobbyist.
In contrast with Republican candidate Chris Christie, who wants to use federal power to stop legalized sales of marijuana in states like Colorado, Clinton told 9NEWS, “I want to give you the space” to experiment with pot policy.
Tharpe also weighed in on comments former Vermont U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made about mass incarceration.
A few have already said that Clinton got off easy on the topic of Wall Street, but she did mount a defense of her positions – even boasting that her plan is tougher than a few of her Democratic competitors’.
Terry says while Sanders certainly held his own among core supporters, he didn’t tip the scales with centrist Democrats. She was clearly pitching to Democratic, not general-election, voters.
With the political future of fellow Democrats Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chaffee uncertain, and former Vice President Joe Biden still uncommitted, the dynamics in the Democrats’ next debate in Iowa a month from now could look substantially different.
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During the “CNN Republican Debate”, 9 million people in the USA saw one or more of the 2.5 million tweets sent. Whereas the Republicans displayed such massive ideological diversity as they competed to see who could be the most lavishly anti-abortion.
