At Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate, the moderators and Clinton repeatedly pressed Sanders on the specifics of his expansive domestic policy promises. Here are a few of the big takeaways from the debate.
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The Texas Republican told reporters in Fort Mill, South Carolina, that voters portably aren’t excited about the prospect of a president who, “when he gets rattled, when he gets upset, begins cursing and yelling vulgarities”.
The Chronicle indicates that a poll conducted by NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist shows Clinton enjoying the support of 64 percent of likely primary voters and 74 percent of likely African American voters.
Clinton and Bernie Sanders are both working aggressively to court minority voters ahead of upcoming primary contests in South Carolina, Nevada and other diverse states.
The Clinton campaign limped into the PBS Democratic presidential debate, hoping to erase the recent memory of Hillary’s New Hampshire nightmare.
A later Facebook question from a Wisconsin woman further pressed the issue of incarceration, asking how the USA could address black men’s high rate of imprisonment.
Sanders stayed on message and later called on the American people to make his proposals possible through a political revolution.
If I had to guess, I’d say that Sanders would continue – and reinforce – President Obama’s wary approach to using force, whereas Clinton would be more hawkish.
On February 11th Mrs Clinton and Mr Sanders met for the first time since that stunning New Hampshire result, for a televised debate in Milwaukee. America is not Britain and not France, she noted, crisply, before adding: “The last thing we need is to throw our country into a contentious debate about health care again”. She said the country does not need another health care debate.
HILLARY CLINTON: “The numbers don’t add up”.
“I have fought my entire life to make sure that healthcare is a right for all people”. We are not France.
I’m very proud of the fact that we have more than 750,000 donors, and the vast majority of them are giving small contributions….
Likewise, they sparred over their college affordability plans.
Here are five takeaways from the matchup between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Sen.
“When it mattered, he stood up and took on Wall Street”, she said.
In the debate’s second half, Sanders tried to impugn Clinton’s judgment on foreign policy by pointing out that she had boasted of winning the praise of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who served during the administration of President Richard Nixon. Tagaris, Sanders’ digital fundraising director, also helped with Chris Dodd’s short-lived Democratic presidential run in 2008. The self-declared democratic socialist says a victory for him would be a historical accomplishment as well.
Clinton, meanwhile, said she doesn’t want people to support her because of her gender, but because she’d be “the most qualified, experienced, and ready person to be the president and the commander in chief”.
Still, her campaign seemed to be betting that the former secretary of state can better persuade voters that she is on their side with a less visceral display. “If you’re the governor of a southern state, as [President] Bill Clinton was, and she of course was first lady, you will get certain experiences interacting with southerners and people of color that you probably won’t get coming up in politics as Bernie Sanders”. Her most powerful argument is that Mr Sanders is peddling fantasies to his millions of adoring, mostly young supporters, as when he says that he knows how to make Congress and the American public accept a European-style health system that would expand the size of the federal government by 40% in a stroke (though not one Republican member of Congress voted for the far less ambitious health law that is Obamacare). Just three involve foreign concerns, and one of these is climate change, which Sanders has described as the biggest threat to national security.
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“But we have got to be honest and to acknowledge we still have a very, very long way to go to create the nation I know all of us believe we can create”, he said. Sanders responded that the criticism was a “low blow”. On Meet the Press on Sunday, host Chuck Todd asked Sanders to name whom he’s consulting. “I think now what I’ve called for is counsel for every child so that no child has to face any kind of process without someone who speaks and advocates for that child so that the right decision hopefully can be made”. Driving a wedge between Sanders and Obama and positioning herself as an unquestioned champion of the president could an effective way to do that.
