All three moderates who spoke to the Guardian ahead of the SC forum acknowledge that the U.S. has changed dramatically since the 1990s, when the New Democrat movement was born as an answer to three heavy defeats to Republicans under Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush. After Clinton suggested that his assertion during the debate that Americans needed to “stop shouting” about gun laws was a sexist one, Sanders had to make clear that it was a line he’d been using for months to sum up the national debate over the Second Amendment.
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After SNL’s Maddow briefly spoke to Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, portrayed by Taran Killam, Kate McKinnon appeared on set as Hillary Clinton and the SNL cast member hilariously did her best to mock Clinton’s attempts at appearing authentic.
Strong poked fun at MSNBC by telling McKinnon “let’s dive into a few tough questions, but don’t worry not actually tough just MSNBC tough”.
Sanders’ shots on Clinton’s late-coming opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline and global trade pacts, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, have been none-too-subtle, even if he doesn’t mention her by name.
Clinton vowed at a town hall in heavily African-American Orangeburg to tackle problems important to black voters, from improving historically black colleges and universities to curing sickle cell anemia, an inherited blood disease that disproportionately affects African-Americans. SC will be the first test of his appeal with that bloc. Pointing out he had opposed the Iraq war from the beginning, unlike Clinton, the Vermont senator said he did “not want to see us get in – sucked into a quagmire of which there may be no end”.
“She says she’s a great CEO”. Martin O’Malley takes 1 percent in the poll.
Clinton easily has the best favorability rating in SC, with 81 percent having a positive view of her, compared to 7 percent negative. “That was disheartening”, the voter told Clinton.
“When the fall comes, and we run against Hillary…it would be a disaster if she was elected”. She filed for her husband in 1991 and 1995 and did it in 2007 for her first presidential run. Not only was the crowd in their favor, but also the bulk of the questions were aimed more toward them, than the rest of the candidates. But I’m a progressive who likes to get things done. “I don’t think I could keep him away”.
Hillary Rodham Clinton signed paperwork Monday establishing her as a Democratic presidential candidate in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary – and within moments took an implicit swipe at chief rival Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders’ performance in the first Democratic presidential debate in October was hardly bad, but it did show where work was needed if he intends to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
Still, attacking Clinton on the debate stage is a risky strategy that could backfire.
“I am glad to see Secretary Clinton is beginning to address an issue that my legislation addressed, but her approach ignored the major issue”, Sanders said in a statement.
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Unfortunately, none of this has stopped the rest of the media from characterizing this in the same way that the Journal did, and now that Hillary’s campaign has swung back, it’s legitimately news, I guess.
