It has, however, also been a subject of criticism, given the many foreign policy and national security challenges that the US faces.
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Sanders responded by noting that Clinton ran against Obama in the 2008 presidential race. While Clinton played the aggressor in the previous Democratic debate, she is mindful of a need to not turn off Sanders’ voters, particularly the young people that are supporting him in overwhelming numbers. “This isn’t surprising in any way, but Bernie Sanders is more of a purist and Hillary Clinton is more of a…pragmatist, maybe?”
Clinton spent much of debate in Milwaukee appropriating Sanders’ positions in broad strokes, if not in detail, on issues from curbing Wall Street’s influence to righting racial injustice to expanding health care and college access. On Meet the Press on Sunday, host Chuck Todd asked Sanders to name whom he’s consulting.
Clinton’s approach set up a stylistic difference between the candidates that has political effect.
Sanders’ lag behind Clinton is in the single digits, 46 percent to 39 percent, a poll by Morning Consult said Friday. “I do not expect from someone running for the Democratic nomination”. “And this is not the first time that he has criticized President Obama. He’s called him a disappointment”. He wrote a forward for a book that basically argued voters should have buyers’ remorse when it comes to President Obama’s leadership and legacy.
“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 grew visibly upset.
Sanders was furious: “Madam Secretary, that is a low blow”.
“I think that a lot of what we have to overcome to break down the barriers that are holding people back, whether it’s poison in the water of the children of Flint, or whether it’s the poor miners who are being left out and left behind in coal country, or whether it is any other American today who feels somehow put down and oppressed by racism, by sexism, by discrimination against the LGBT community, against the kind of efforts that need to be made to root out all of these barriers, that is what I want to take on”, Clinton said, according to Vox. But in a preview of the fight to come between Clinton and Sanders, U.S. Rep. and civil rights leader John Lewis dismissed the senator’s work Thursday: “I never saw him”. In his opening remarks, Sanders quickly turned to the subject of youth incarceration, which is of particular concern to African Americans and Latinos. “When we talk about criminal justice reform … we also have to talk about jobs, education, housing and other ways of helping communities of color”, she said.
Among his issues was that the United States has “the highest rate of childhood poverty of nearly any major country on Earth”.
Yup – that’s a photo of Clinton in the same gold top she wore Thursday night sharing a laugh with Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs, at a Clinton Global Initiative event on September 24, 2014 in New York City. It’s a huge vote that Clinton has apologized for, but it still has resonance in Democratic precincts.
HILLARY CLINTON: My price tag is about $100 billion a year, and again, paid for.
“There’s not one Republican candidate for president who agrees that climate change is real”. But most of the time he was Clinton’s. They are a group that doesn’t know Sanders well and favors Clinton by large margins. She defended Wall Street donations to his campaigns, asserting that his signing of the Dodd-Frank regulations showed that he was not beholden to the financial industry.
Democratic presidential candidates Sen. “So, let’s not in any way imply here that either President Obama or myself would in any way not take on any vested interest, whether it’s Wall Street, or drug companies, or insurance companies, or frankly, the gun lobby, to stand up to do what’s best for the American people”.
Sanders called that “an insult” to the voters’ intelligence.
Clinton didn’t have a convincing answer to that one, but she had a trump card of her own.
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In the debate’s early moments, Clinton found herself having to explain comments by surrogates, including former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, that suggested women had a responsibility to help elect the first female president.
