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How Bernie Sanders dominated the Democratic debate, in charts

Hillary Clinton and I have different opinions. Bernie Sanders with a full-throated embrace of her one-time rival and boss.

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Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, the third candidate on the Gaillard Center stage, delivered a performance that was smooth, knowledgeable and, as things now stand, irrelevant. Day on the steps of the SC statehouse – which, for the first time, was celebrated with no Confederate flag flying overhead. Murray points out that the same situation helped President Obama beat Clinton. “But the fact is we have the Affordable Care Act….”

She lauded the Affordable Care Act to the heavens, rejecting the notion that it left too many Americans still without health insurance. He once called the former president’s behavior “deplorable” but said Sunday night that he wants to focus on issues “not Bill Clinton’s personal life”. In his proposal, he also points to the legacies of other Democratic presidents, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks to supporters during a campaign stop Monday in Birmingham, Ala.

Ms Clinton wrangled with the leftist Vermont senator, sometimes intensely, over plans for universal health care, guns, battling Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists and reining in Wall Street.

“I’m not going to tear it up, I helped write it”, Sanders said. “And President Obama has led our country out of the Great Recession”, she said.

“Senator Sanders called him weak, disappointing”. In a breakdown of screen time, both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were seen 33 percent of the time, and 30 percent was dedicated to commercial breaks. “Want to get me on the front page of the paper?”

Mr Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, claims his plan would save $6 trillion over 10 years compared with the current system.

Today, Gensler is the top economic adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

“We can’t have another four years of Barack Obama”, he said.

She needs them so she can build a winning coalition that is capable of taking the nomination for the Democrats and then mounting a race against the Republican candidate for the November general election. One reason may be that, unlike Sanders, Clinton has been through the wringer of Republican attacks.

“I think Nevada is an easier state for him just demographically than SC is”. Neither Clinton nor Martin O’Malley served in Congress at that time. Reporter: And Hillary Clinton was asked last night, what kind of role her husband would play in her administration, she said, his place in the white house would start with her right at the kitchen table and they would figure it out from there. Alabama holds its primary March 1. It remains the highest-rated Democratic primary match-up in TV history. She devoted a good portion of her remarks to about 300 people on a frigid Iowa evening to make the case that she is the most prepared candidate in the race, calling for a “sensible, achievable agenda”.

Clinton said Sanders was criticizing not just her but also President Obama who took donations from Wall Street.

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Out of the 50 states, Sanders was the most searched in 38 of them.

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