Clinton, by contrast, has been down with the party since the 1970s, not to mention she’s the wife of the biggest (Democratic) party rock star of all, former president Bill Clinton. Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver stated in the release.
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The exchange underscored the degree to which Obama’s legacy has become tug-of-war between Clinton and Sanders as the Democratic race winds into Nevada and SC, where minority voters play a pivotal role.
“If we were to stop that tomorrow, we would still have the indifference, the negligence that we saw in Flint”, Clinton said.
Those two looming battlegrounds are less liberal than Iowa and New Hampshire, which could be helpful to Clinton as she accuses Sanders of overreach.
“If Hillary Clinton continues to invoke the president and suggest that Bernie is at odds with the president, I think Bernie has a huge reservoir to draw from // there’s a lot there that we can go to”. And she accused Sanders of trying to shade the truth about what she said would be a 40 percent increase in the size of the federal government in order to implement his policies.
“While young women may not want to hear anything more from this aging feminist, I feel it is important to speak to women coming of age at a time when a viable female presidential candidate, once inconceivable, is a reality”, she wrote. That is the highest percentage Sanders has recorded in that survey. Clinton responded that Sanders has failed to answer questions about whom he would have advise him on foreign policy.
Sanders also repeated his accusation that Clinton is too beholden to the Wall Street interests she once represented as a USA senator from NY, noting her Super PAC received $15 million in donations from Wall Street.
“One hundred, 150 years ago incredibly courageous Americans said, you know what, working class kids, low-income kids should not have to work in factories or on the farms”.
“They’ve given us a whole series of losers”, she says of the establishment, “and we’re fed up”. “That was not as I understand, the secretary’s position”, the independent senator from Vermont said, reported The Hill. “I’m against the kind of inhumane treatment that is now being visited upon families, waking them up in the middle of the night, rounding them up”.
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DONALD TRUMP (R), Republican Presidential Candidate: And I see he is bringing his brother in now. Both Sanders and Clinton agreed on the need to work on the disproportionately large African-American and Latino prison population, the criminal justice system and the overall state of race relations.
