Clinton said President Obama’s name 22 times and made numerous references to his policies during Thursday’s Democratic debate hosted by PBS Newshour.
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Clinton is making a strategic move ahead of the SC primary, where a substantial percentage of the electorate is African American.
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. “I was not that candidate”, said Sanders.
After Clinton responded to a question by saying, “once I’m in the White House”, he began his next answer by saying, “Secretary Clinton, you’re not in the White House yet”, drawing some murmurs and jeers.
“Let’s not insult the intelligence of the American people”, said Sanders. He must also prove he is capable of expanding his political base by addressing strong proposals regarding issues that matter to minority voters.
I honestly don’t think Senator Bernie Sanders meant to say that he, a white guy from Vermont, would do a better job of handling American race relations than President Obama.
“All these guys, you know, the conservatives, I’m a conservative person”. Jeb Bush, in an email interview with Bloomberg BNA in July, wrote that “the climate is changing”, adding, “I don’t think anybody can argue it’s not”.
Sanders is leading her by 16 points among 30-44-year- olds, while she lost that group by only eight points to Obama. “I was not that candidate”. This on-the-ground work may account for the significantly higher number of Google searches for “Sanders” in SC than for “Clinton”, according to FiveThirtyEight.
“If you want to build a wall along the Rio Grande and spend $13 million, then you should follow him like Moses into the Promised Land”, said the former president, which caused the crowd to erupt into laughter. Clinton doubted the feasibility of Sanders’ proposals. He said he was the candidate willing to take on drug companies, the insurance industry and medical equipment suppliers who might be opposed to an overhaul.
“I’m in it for Hillary Clinton until the end”, Love said.
The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that the tax increases in Sanders’ plan would cover only about 75 percent of what Sanders says it will cost, creating a $3 trillion hole in the federal budget over 10 years. “It has to be dealt with….”
SANDERS: “A male, African-American baby born today stands a one-in-four chance of ending up in jail. That is beyond unspeakable”.
Clinton criticized what she called “systemic racism” in education, housing and employment. They asked several questions specifically about race – the sort rarely if ever raised in the less colorful alter-world of Republican debates.
She is wagering that even voters excited by Sanders’s inspiring message will reconsider their support when they learn of his lack of experience in foreign policy and his vague explanations for how he will pay for his expansive government programmes.
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“The kind of criticism that we’ve heard from Senator Sanders about our president, I expect from Republicans, I do not expect from someone running for the Democratic nomination to succeed President Obama”, said Clinton, who served as secretary of state during Obama’s first term.
