That’s a huge problem for the former secretary of state, who will likely aim to try to get younger voters more engaged with her campaign tonight.
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Clinton shot back, “Well look, I’ve got to just jump in here because, honestly, Senator Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment”.
The candidates are arguing over who is more committed to, and capable of, carrying out a liberal agenda on health care, income inequality, worker rights and more.
They, however, offered different stances on the death penalty, with Clinton saying she supports it in extreme circumstances, like acts of terror, and Sanders contending that the government should not partake in killing. Clinton responded that because she is a woman she is not the establishment.
Clinton said she has the ability to actually implement progressive changes.
She also pointed out, if “we’re going to get into labels”, then Sanders himself perhaps doesn’t meet the definition. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, was excoriated in 2008 when he said Barack Obama lived in a “fairy tale” just ahead of the SC primary.
But on that point, too, Mr. Sanders had a comeback ready. Yet she’s under increasing pressure to contrast Sanders’ calls for a political “revolution” with her more measured policy platform.
There’s a reason Clinton’s campaign made a decision to embrace four more Democratic debates: She’s a bare-knuckle brawler, and she’s not going to lose the nomination because she wasn’t willing to hit Sanders hard enough. Bernie Sanders and his supporters were asking for more debates and alleged that DNC was not allowing them space against Clinton.
Mrs Clinton again faced questions about issues that have dogged her campaign for months, from her use of a personal email server to paid speeches – an issue that had tripped her up the night before.
Asked directly whether she could “reassure” Democrats on this, Clinton said: “Absolutely I can”.
Sanders’ 30-second spot cites a series of outlets who have endorsed the Vermont senator, but included The Valley News and the Nashua Telegraph, two papers that have not backed him. “I think it’s time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign has raised”.
“If there is a large voter turnout, not only do we retain the White House, but I think we regain the Senate”.
Sanders said the “middle class bailed out Wall Street in their time of need, now it is time for Wall Street to help the middle class”.
And he denied that Sanders was guilty of an underhand smear against Clinton.
Clinton retorted: “A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS”.
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Polls in New Hampshire suggest the primary will not be as close as the tight Democratic caucuses in Iowa. “Our big concern is if either one of them is elected they will have an opportunity to appoint multiple justices to the Supreme Court and also replenish other federal courts with anti-gun justices as well”.
