Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders sparred over a variety of issues last night at UW-Milwaukee.
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As the candidates vie for the black vote ahead of the SC primary, Clinton has cozied up to Obama, who is widely popular in the state, while pegging Sanders as being against him.
Clinton is expected to keep up the aggressive posture she took in the last Democratic debate, the first head-to-head matchup between the rivals. Sanders has suggested Obama hadn’t succeeded in closing the gap between Congress and the American people – something Obama has acknowledged.
They once seemed like unbeatable favorites for their party nominations, but now Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush are both fighting to prove they can win in SC.
African Americans are overwhelmingly behind the Democrats, but polls show that younger blacks are more apt to reject who they feel is an establishment candidate.
“So when you go to caucus on March 1, ask yourself who you can count on to break down every barrier, not just some”, Clinton said.
The race for the Democratic Party’s presidential nominatoin is facing an unexpected road block in Nevada: foreclosures. “Clearly they have been unraveled by the results in Iowa, by our victory in New Hampshire and the progress we are making all over this country”.
Clinton answered the question, saying her best estimate of the price of his plans would raise the cost of government by 40 per cent. And he noted that Clinton was the only one on the stage who ran against Obama in the 2008 presidential race. “No matter how good your eyesight is – if you are standing in Alabama, you can’t see people in Chicago”, Ellison told CNN. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., shakes hands after stopping at a reception for the Minnesota Nurses Association at the Science Museum of Minnesota on Friday in St. Paul, Minn.
Long viewed as the overwhelming front-runner in the Democratic race, Clinton has been caught off-guard by Sanders’ connection with Americans frustrated by the current political and economic systems.
The notion of Clinton being America’s “first black president” comes from a comment made by the writer Toni Morrison in the New Yorker in 1998.
Sanders said he’d work to change the culture around sexual violence through education, end the “rape kit backlog”, and eliminate roadblocks to birth control and emergency contraception, according to the website.
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“I think a big thing she needs to do is her messaging”, said Julia Falvey, a 20-year-old Clinton supporter from Marietta. We don’t have enough data yet to say this for sure, but I think that we’re seeing something happen here.
