Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on Monday drew their sharpest contrasts yet in hard-hitting final pitches to Iowa voters as the competitive race to win the first in the nation caucuses enters its last week.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton applauds after a CNN town hall at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016.
The freshman senator from Florida is trailing in Iowa preference polls behind GOP rivals Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, but he has received more support than either candidate from members of the House and Senate. “I know you can, I’ve seen you do it before”, O’Malley beseeched the audience at the end of his pitch.
But Clinton was thrown on the defensive at one point, when she was asked about the controversy over her private email server that has dogged her campaign and is under investigation by the F.B.I. amid claims she recklessly left classified intelligence at risk of being intercepted by foreign spy agencies.
“A nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings”, the Fox statement said. “You have to say to yourself, ‘why are they throwing all of that?” He defends Clinton as burdened by her perceived front-runner status while Sanders benefits from “the luxury of being a complete long shot”.
Clinton took a question from a young Des Moines native, Taylor Gipple, who told Clinton he was a Sanders supporter and then launched into his reservations about giving her his vote.
The Israelis resisted, and Clinton said she made an emergency visit to the Jewish state.
Speaking to FOX News Tuesday, Pataki said Rubio is the one candidate in either party with the ability to bring the American people together. Instead of bombing Iran and possibly starting another war, Clinton said she spent 18 months creating a coalition aimed at finding a peaceful solution. “And when we weren’t successful, I turned around and said at least we’re going to get health care for kids”. “It took Hillary Clinton a long time to come on board on that”.
“I try not to think about that too much”, said May Mullen, 19, another freshman at SNHU. “Yes, we will”, Sanders admitted of how his single-payer plan would be funded.
But he also conceded that it wouldn’t be just the rich facing higher tax bills, since his “Medicare for All” proposal would result in new taxes.
“Young people are by nature idealistic”, Sanders said in an interview.
“We will raise taxes”.
Asked how he would enact his agenda, Sanders pointed briefly to his collaboration with Republicans in Congress, including Senator John McCain and Representative Jeff Miller, but leaned on an answer he’s given throughout his campaign: that the only way to affect real change is by voting out the vast majority of members of Congress. “There are those who say we cannot defeat a corrupt political system and fix a rigged economy”, Sanders says in the ad. “But I believe we need to lift our vision above the obstacles in place and look to the American horizon”. In New Hampshire, which hosts a primary a week later, Sanders has a double-digit lead over Clinton that seems to be expanding. Socialism is inseparable from public ownership of the means of production under the democratic control of working people-something Sanders has explicitly rejected. “The turnout was so extraordinary, nobody expected it. Do I think in this campaign that we are going to match that? That’s my definition of democratic socialism”.
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O’Malley, who also served as mayor of Baltimore, defended his record on racial issues and policing, again defending his “all lives matter” response to “black lives matter” protesters.
