Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ripped into Sen.
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Bernie Sanders is for all intents and purposes statistically tied with Hillary Clinton in terms of Democratic support nationwide, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Friday.
“Senator Sanders is the only person I think who would characterize me- a woman running to be the first woman president- as exemplifying the establishment”, Clinton said.
She went on, “I think it’s time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign have been carrying out”.
“That’s what gets you up in the morning”.
Sanders continued his assault on Clinton’s connection to Wall Street bankers and challenged her assertion that she is a “progressive” Democrat.
The debate, moderated by NBC’s Chuck Todd and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, went well over the allotted 90-minute airtime. “She has developed sophisticated policy proposals that many economists agree would aggressively regulate the financial sector, but they have collided with the image that Sanders supporters and other political rivals have painted of her: Wall Street’s friend and defender”.
“I would argue that Bernie is better known as a U.S. Senator than most because he’s been, first of all, in public service a lot longer than majority, and secondly, he’s someone who always grabs headlines and is very good at articulating his views”.
“Whether you’re feelin’ the Bern or you’re ready for Hillary, we know that we must elect a Democrat to the White House come election day in November”, the Florida congresswoman said.
Sanders followed up with, “Talk the talk, but walk the walk”. Sanders, meanwhile, hopes to strike back with his own triumph in New Hampshire’s primary next Tuesday.
And she skillfully raised questions about Sanders’ command of foreign policy, turning around his argument about her Iraq war vote, cast more than a decade ago.
Clinton retorted: “A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS”.
In a voice grown hoarse after days of campaigning, Bernie Sanders ticked off an expansive list of accomplishments in an apparent attempt to one-up his competitor and show himself as a fearless and independent voice in establishment Washington. A band played music and students sang, “This is what democracy looks like”. When endorsements from superdelegates are included, Clinton has 385 delegates and Sanders has 29. “I want to break down all the barriers holding Americans back from achieving their dreams”.
Clinton, the former first lady and NY senator, continues to command widespread voter respect for her experience and readiness to serve as commander-in-chief.
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Williams, also a military veteran, said in an op-ed posted online Thursday night that he sees the OH governor as the right candidate to be “responsible enough to command the world’s most powerful military” and that he is the “the best choice to root out corruption at the Veterans Administration”. Asking why she thinks it’s in the US interest to get involved in that manner in Syria – and, for that matter, why she thinks “special forces” don’t really count as boots on the ground there – would emphasize an actual problematic area for Clinton with primary voters (and have the added benefit of being the most defensible policy position, and one on which Clinton differs with President Barack Obama).
