At another point in the interview, Kimmel asked Clinton, “When’s the last time you’ve been good and hammered?” Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley were expected to speak Friday night at a televised forum hosted by Rep. James Clyburn, a prominent black lawmaker.
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Sanders’ weakest answer came during questioning on what he would do to stop the march of the Islamic State group. “Dr. King – in the March on Washington”. He said, “I think I have the economic and social justice agenda now that once we get the word out will resonate with the African-American community”. “We rush to connect the dots, but it all leads us in a straight line to hell”.
“It’s really hard to do this and people’s campaigns change”, she said with a smirk.
“When President Obama was running for re-election, I was glad to step up and work very hard for him while Sen”.
And he was blunt in a Boston Globe editorial meeting on Thursday: “I disagree with Hillary Clinton on virtually everything”, he said. “I believe in the party of Franklin Roosevelt”. “I’m just not sure about it”, Clinton said.
Clinton’s proposals would also eliminate the five-year mandatory minimum sentence for possession of crack cocaine, as well as make the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine offenses, apply retroactively. He further claimed that he was in support of background checks, and the regulation of “weapons exclusively created to kill people”.
“The question is not shouting at each other”. Sanders argued during Friday’s forum that the best approach to gun control is passing legislation that’s a middle ground between what gun control advocates and gun rights activists want.
“Maybe they should put a number on the side of the bus that people could call”, Clinton suggested.
Everyone over the age of 18 should be registered to vote automatically, he said. “I was there with Martin Luther King Jr”. Those who do so are “political cowards”, he said.
Clinton, Sanders and O’Malley each spoke with Maddow for about 30 minutes before a live audience of about 3,000 in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Clinton’s campaign problems are still real.
No recent presidential candidate has been as first-name familiar and as involved in as many controversial issues for as long as Hillary Clinton has.
Clinton – taping amid a whirlwind fundraising tour of California – pondered Kimmel’s question if Bill Clinton would be given the moniker First Dude. And Hillary Clinton won Latino voters by a almost 2-to-1 margin in her 2008 primary race against the man who actually became the country’s first black president, Barack Obama.
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The former secretary of State came onstage later in the night and threw a few mud at the Republican presidential field and pontificated on what a Clinton 2.0 White House might look like.
