(CNN)It was 12 against one at the Republican debates in Milwaukee.
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And former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley announced his veterans plan Monday, promising to increase “transparency, accountability And outcomes” by increasing scrutiny on the administration. Her national approval rating among Democrats was 79 percent in an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted before last month’s debate and Benghazi testimony, and is at similar levels in Iowa and New Hampshire. Sanders is an independent senator from Vermont.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton pauses as protesters chanting “black lives matter” interrupt her during a campaign rally in Atlanta.
“[Clinton] has put her finger up to the wind and has detected this change in support”, he says. “If you have a declaration of war you better have a budget that backs it up”, she said.
The result is that Democrats have won five of the last six presidential popular votes, while the GOP has amassed House and Senate majorities, 31 governorships and outright control of 30 state legislatures. “They are impatient and they deserve to be impatient”, she said.
“The issue is, who is prepared under hard circumstances, when it’s not necessarily popular, to make decisions which are the right decisions rather than 20 years later say, ‘Well, you know, maybe I was wrong or maybe I got to rethink that, ‘” Mr. Sanders said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”. Clinton and Sanders spoke for roughly 59 minutes-almost half of the nearly 2 hour debate, with the other 3 candidates taking up the other half. If the Hillary Clinton of the early ’90s were around today, then I wouldn’t have been quoted in a recent MassLive.com article titled Hillary Clinton’s new foe: the left.
“For me-as opposed to a few other unnamed candidates-the issue of Keystone was kind of a no-brainer”, he said Friday, typifying his approach to Clinton, at a SC forum where all three candidates appeared for one-on-one interviews with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.
Now, Bernie Sanders is continuing his push to distinguish himself from the Democratic front-runner by suggesting what should be obvious to all: Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate in the race. But I’m a progressive who likes to get things done.
Her right-leaning response also stands in tension with her avowed pledge last week to go further than President Obama on immigration reform.
More often than not, actions speak louder than words.
Clinton said her husband, former President Bill Clinton will eventually join her on the campaign trail but there were no specific plans yet.
Clinton said she had “high hopes and expectations that there can be a new, ambitious, lasting climate agreement to be accepted” and took a little credit, arguing that if a deal is struck “it will be built on the foundation that the President and I laid in Copenhagen”.
Still, attacking Clinton on the debate stage is a risky strategy that could backfire.
The former secretary of state also continues to be viewed as the candidate most likely to address the concerns of African-American voters.
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In the first candidates’ debate, in Las Vegas, Clinton argued in favor of tougher firearm laws and accused Sanders of siding with the gun lobby.
