While certainly far from the most substantive discussion in the debate, the exchange shows both contenders will end up spending plenty of time attempting to show who can best hold up the president’s legacy, should they succeed him. “Sanders about our president I expect from Republicans”.
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Democratic presidential candidates Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton at the debate in Milwaukee.
“What our campaign is indicating is that the American people are exhausted of establishment politics”, Sanders said. And he noted that Clinton was the only one on the stage who ran against Obama in the 2008 presidential race. The former secretary of state’s connections to Wall Street have given Sanders an easy way to link her to his call for a “revolution”.
LIASSON: Clinton has deep support among black voters in SC, and she wants to prevent Sanders from making inroads there.
Meanwhile, what has worked for Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire and Iowa may not work for SC or Nevada as every state is different and voters are focused on different issues. To defend her foreign policy record, Hillary said “Sen”.
“In my case, whether it’s health care, or getting us to debt-free tuition, or moving us toward paid family leave, I have been very specific about where I would raise the money, how much it would cost, and how I would move this agenda forward”, Clinton said.
Both candidates promised large-scale criminal justice reform and comprehensive immigration reform, including a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants now living and working in the United States. She later added this was the “kind of criticism that we’ve heard from Senator Sanders about our president I expect from Republican”. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio fell five points and now is tied for second with Ben Carson are 10 percent.
class=”glossaryLink cmtt_Politicians” Hillary Clinton backers have rallied behind the still-Democratic-frontrunner’s closing statement in last night’s debate where she stated, “I am not a single-issue candidate and I do not believe we live in a single-issue country”. Sanders, of course, is coming off his big win in New Hampshire.
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Right now, a Democratic socialist has a good chance of beating a former senator and popular secretary of state in the race for the Democratic nomination. LeTourneau writes, “What she is doing instead of saying “no we can’t” is to suggest that – in response to Sanders” proposals – “they aren’t enough.’ And then she went on to suggest what else needs to be done”. Sanders didn’t shy away from the notion that he wants to expand the size of government. Criticising the anti-immigrant positions of Republican front-runner Donald Trump, Mr Sanders said immigrants should not be scapegoats for economic uncertainty. His campaign contends that his message will be well-received by minority voters, arguing that blacks and Hispanics have been hurt even more by what he calls a “rigged” economy. They can switch whenever they like, and some of them probably will switch to Sanders if he extends his winning streak into more diverse states and eventually appears to have more of a mandate than Clinton among Democratic voters. What presidential candidate wouldn’t promise “I will improve race relations, absolutely!” “So I think they hide behind a little bit of innuendo”, John Podesta, the chair of Clinton’s campaign, told CNN on Thursday night.
