Hillary Clinton gave this answer as she tried to win over a skeptical Bernie Sanders supporter.
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Sanders’s recollection of Clinton’s gun record is correct.
Clinton, a former senator and secretary of state, prefers to talk about “achievable” outcomes and douses her campaign remarks with reminders about how hard almost every fight a president takes on will be to achieve.
“It took Hillary Clinton a long time to come on board to that”, he added.
In an interview with NBC on Sunday, Clinton acknowledged that her competition with Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination has become intensely personal.
From the very first audience question at Monday’s 2016 town hall in Des Moines, Hillary Clinton was forced to contend with the presence of Sen.
The meeting’s host, Chris Cuomo, then injected extra needle by telling her she was only allowed to pick one.
Weaver said that Monday night’s event would showcase Sanders’ retail politics skills and flair for interacting directly with voters who are “ultimately the decision makers”. “And an incrementalist approach is not going to get us to where we need to go, nor is it going to claim this tremendous business opportunity for the United States”. “We are touching a nerve with the American people”, he said, “who understand that establishment politics is just not good enough”.
Sanders, for his part, went into explicit detail after a young woman who said she hadn’t decided asked about his history on reproductive and women’s rights. His record was called into question by an Iowa State University student, Joi Latson, who asked how O’Malley’s past criminal justice policies might square with his current platform to address structural racism. But he said he is up for the job: “I think I have the background”. Sanders says she is doing the same thing again in 2016-this time by running pro-gun control commercials in New Hampshire while shying away from the topic in Iowa. But Clinton came in on an uptick, earning praise from President Barack Obama and picking up an endorsement from Iowa’s largest newspaper, the Des Moines Register, which wrote over the weekend that “no other candidate can match the depth or breadth of her knowledge and experience”.
“This calls for a standing up response”, he said, arguing that he’s displayed better judgment than Clinton on a number of issues, including beating Clinton to the punch with his opposition to the Iraq war and the Keystone pipeline. She shared stories about her time as a young lawyer, including working to get juveniles out of adult jails and investigating schools in Alabama that were made private to avoid integration.
Rather than choosing her husband, Bill Clinton, Mrs Clinton responded unhesitatingly: “Sorry President Obama, sorry Bill, Abraham Lincoln”.
In the most recent CNN Poll of Polls, Sanders edges Clinton 46 percent to 44 percent in Iowa, with O’Malley at 4 percent. “I Googled it for them”, wrote John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman and a former top adviser to Obama who pushed a strong environmental agenda, last week.
“My candidacy is in your hands”, O’Malley told Iowa voters. Her critics – and even would-be supporters – continue to push a message the Clinton really can’t be trusted to do the green thing.
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“We’ve had a conversation broadly about the importance of a Democrat winning (with Clinton), and I’ve had conversation with Bernie, about issues that he’s interested in or concerned about”, he said.
