Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, can’t match her foreign policy experience or command of world politics.
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Joined by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, at a fall barbecue, the front-runner said middle-class families “need a raise, not a tax increase” and she was the lone Democrat in the debate to commit to raising wages “and not your taxes”.
“I represented NY on 9/11 when we were attacked”, Clinton said during the debate. “It can not be an American fight”.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) on Sunday took issue with Hillary Clinton’s refusal to call the terrorists who attacked Paris representatives of radical Islam.
The day after a series of bomb and gun attacks that killed at least 129 people in Paris, Sanders criticized Clinton’s vote authorizing the Iraq invasion and said it was “one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of the United States”.
Clinton denounced Sanders’ portrayal of her, saying that he “used his answer to impugn my integrity” and insisted that Sanders’ proposal for Wall Street regulation did not go far enough.
Republicans said Clinton had hidden shamefully behind the 9-11 attacks to deflect attention from her ties to her wealthiest donors.
Later the subject turned to her campaign’s hefty collections from Wall Street.
“We have to be rallying our partners and allies, pulling countries off the sidelines”, Mrs. Clinton said on Sunday.
The Democratic candidates will square off next in Manchester, N.H., December 19.
Clinton, 68, a former USA secretary of state, US senator and first lady, said Islamic State is the leading threat of an global terror network that must be defeated, not just contained, by summoning resources, diplomacy, development aid, law enforcement, sharing of intelligence and military force as a last resort. “And if we do not get our act together and listen to what the scientists say, you’re going to see countries all over the world – this is what the Central Intelligence Agency says – they’re going to be struggling over limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land to grow their crops ask you’re going to see all kinds of global conflict”.
The former president did not respond to questions about Hillary Clinton’s assertion that one of the reasons she has received millions of dollars in donations from Wall Street is because she “represented NY on 9/11 when we were attacked”. Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s top rival for the nomination, during Saturday night’s debate.
Secretary Clinton gets to respond. “She worked-and many of us supported you-in trying to rebuild that devastation”. “The fact of the matter is – and let’s say it in our debate, because you’ll never hear this from that immigration-bashing carnival barker, Donald Trump – the truth of the matter is net immigration from Mexico past year was zero”.
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Saturday debate began with a series of questions on terrorism and how America can combat ISIS, especially in light of the heinous attacks in Paris on Friday night. Sanders said it should be scraped altogether in favor of single payer and declaring war on the pharmaceutical and insurance industry.
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“There are people who have supported her, sometimes they agree with her on all things … and often they don’t, but they appreciate how hard she works or they find other reasons why they want to support her”, she said.
