She was speaking after a televised debate on Tuesday among the Democrats who have announced they are running.
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The general consensus, according to Harvard professors, is that she performed well in the debate, outshining Sanders and the lesser-known former senator Jim Webb, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, and former Rhode Island governor and senator Lincoln Chafee.
Boxer, who was a colleague of Biden’s during his long years in the Senate, told Politico on Wednesday that there was no reason for him to run.
With crisp answers to almost every question, an aggressiveness her rivals did not seem ready for and a level of confidence that has often been obscured over months of email questions, Clinton sent an unmistakable message to Biden and to her party. Wednesday morning’s declarations that Clinton “nailed it” and emerged as the clear victor may or may not be correct.
TRUMP: No, I don’t see anything wrong with it even. Look, the way they spoke with us was pitting one into the other. Texas is the top prize on Super Tuesday with 155 delegates, so the debate stands to help shape the election, political scientists said Tuesday. Yet the Democratic National Committee has consistently ignored his candidacy. He has sought the presidency twice, with no success.
Clinton dispatched Chafee as if brushing lint from her sleeve.
Watching the Democratic candidates’ presidential debate Tuesday night, one might think a Republican has been in the White House since 2009.
Clinton said she has been “very consistent” but does “absorb new information”. “I think we’re going to do quite well with Latinos”. I want to put the free back in free enterprise.
But while Clinton avoided hurting herself in any major way, she was unable to do what she needed to do most; blunt the rise of Sanders. Clinton used the discussion to align herself with the president, who remains extremely popular among Democratic voters. At the same time, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders reinforced his appeal to the liberal base, which has responded with donations.
Sanders offered her a crucial assist on two fronts in forestalling a threat from Biden.
One of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent backers said in Las Vegas this week that the impassioned presidential campaign of Sen. Sanders provided the most memorable moment when he urged Clinton’s critics to stop obsessing about her use of private emails while she was America’s top diplomat.
He’ll still get more chances to talk about those issues, and the way he differs from Clinton. The controversy had raised security questions that Republicans have seized on.
“That’s not me. That’s never been me”, she said. “What you heard was an honest debate of what will move us forward, to lead to a clean electric grid by 2050, and employ more of our people, rebuild our cities and towns, educate our children at higher and better levels, and include more people in the economic and social life in our country”. She called him “a great moral leader” on racial issues and defended his decision to use USA forces in Libya. But given the overwhelming bias against Hillary Clinton most of these same analysts had expressed before the debate, it’s hard to argue they were primed to give her special treatment after the debate.
At the suggestion that she must be hoping Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t jump into the race, Clinton replied, “I’m not hoping anything”.
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Yet, surprisingly, at least in the mind of Maddow, “the New York Times news coverage of last night’s debate was absolutely glowing about Hillary Clinton’s performance”.
