Since being elected into Congress in 1990, Sanders has introduced his plan for single-payer health care 11 times, including a 2.2 percent increase on income taxes and as much as an 8.7 percent increase in payroll taxes in nine of those proposals.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren is facing growing pressure from Senate Democrats to get behind Hillary Clinton as the former secretary of state suddenly finds herself struggling to keep pace with Bernie Sanders in early primary states.
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, who’s been taking flak from his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton over his call for universal health care, expressed frustration Wednesday night with those “who want to demagogue the issue”. “In 2008 she was attacking Obama because Obama was attacking her because she supported universal health care”. A Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday found Sanders leading the Democratic race in Iowa with 49% of the vote among likely caucusgoers, compared with 44% for Clinton.
Recent polls have shown that Sanders is gaining major ground in vital states such as New Hampshire and Iowa, posing a major threat to Clinton’s position as the Democratic front-runner.
Mother Jones described the new attacks as “an abrupt shift” with just a few weeks before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. “That’s a concession. ‘Hey, you know, we know you’re not that enthusiastic about us, but hey, don’t you wanna win?’ But of course the numbers right now both in Iowa and New Hampshire actually don’t back that up”, Todd said. “I wish that we could elect a Democratic president who could wave a magic wand and say ‘We shall do this, and we shall do that.’ That ain’t the real world we’re living in!” she said Tuesday. Bernie Sanders among black voters.
“The Clinton campaign, unfortunately, does not get to dictate when we put things out”, Weaver told Chuck Todd on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily”, saying it would come “when it’s ready”.
“Sen. Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare, dismantle the CHIP program, dismantle Medicare, and dismantle private insurance”, she said, according to NBC News. And yes, we have the energy, we have the funding to take this to the convention.
But Tapper kept pushing on the idea of Clinton specifically saying it is wrong for Democrats to be attacking each other on this very specific issue.
Ms. Clinton does not go into detail about how she would deal with the offshore reinsurance, but cites in a footnote a 2014 report by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation regarding hedge fund reinsurance that says “the establishment of offshore businesses that reinsure risks and that invest in US hedge funds has been characterized as creating the potential for tax avoidance”. “I’m excited about where we are”, she told Today show interviewer Savannah Guthrie.
Hillary Clinton received 14.6 percent and Martin O’Malley received 0.9 percent, with 5.9 percent of votes cast in favor of not endorsing.
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Clinton also touted her foreign policy credentials, drawing another, more implicit, contrast with Sanders, who has made tackling economic inequality the focus of his campaign.
