While Sanders and former Maryland governor Martin O’ Malley support restoring the Glass-Steagall Act – separating conventional and investment banks activity – Clinton disapproves of the idea.
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LAS VEGASThe three candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination met for the first time this election year on Wednesday night, when they gathered to kick off their final weeks of campaigning ahead of the Nevada caucuses.
“I’m a lifelong Democrat”.
Gensler’s missive got the attention of Sanders, who devoted a big chunk of his speech on Tuesday to rebutting the Clinton campaign’s argument. “But your choice in the caucus really matters”. Yet as the two candidates unveil their policy plans for regulatory reform, it is Clinton who is trying to outflank Sanders by arguing that her proposal is far tougher on the banks whose risky bets actually caused the financial crisis in 2008.
Clinton is leading in California because she’s preferred over Sanders by majorities of women, minorities, registered Democrats, Northern California residents and people 40 and older, the poll shows.
Sanders said that as president, he would immediately order his Treasury secretary to draw up a list of firms-both traditional banks and “shadow banks”-that were too big to fail”.
Let’s break down what the two Democratic rivals are saying about policing Wall Street.
The poll was conducted from December 16 to January 3 among 1,003 registered voters, 329 of whom are considered likely to vote in the state’s June Democratic presidential primary election. And even if Clinton might not win over progressives on a core Sanders issue, she’s really just trying to narrow the gap.
Hillary Clinton is trying to turn the tables on Bernie Sanders.
The audience was largely made up of decided voters.
Sanders’ supporters, many that were bussed from his rally to the dinner event, erupted in cheers and blew into piercingly loud, vuvuzela-like horns at almost every mention of their candidate’s name.
2016 presidential candidate Bernard “Bernie” Sanders vows an end to what he called the greed of financial institutions like overly massive commercial banks, insurance companies, and shadow banks.
The crowd at the venue – a mix of Communications Workers of America union workers, local lawmakers from NY and New Jersey, and many younger attendees – embraced Sanders’ attacks on the former secretary of state.
Hillary Clinton wants you to know that she won’t need a “tour of the White House” if she wins the presidency, warning again and again that a Republican in the Oval Office would derail everything the Democrats have achieved.
“As soon as I started listening to him, I knew he was the only candidate I could vote for”, said Sanders, 49, a flight attendant for a major airline who isn’t related to the candidate. “Think hard about the people who are presenting themselves to you, their experience, their qualifications, their positions, but particularly for those of us who are Democrats, their electability”.
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The comments come after Sanders went on the offensive in a december 27 appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation, where he criticized the real estate mogul for his reluctance to raise the minimum wage. The State Department¿s search for documents during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton¿s tenure contributed to “inaccurate and incomplete¿ responses under federal open records laws, including the existence of her private email account, the agency¿s watchdog will report”.
