Sanders, along with his wife Jane and some members of his staff, entered the Victory Missionary Baptist Church after Clinton was already seated and waiting.
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Clyburn is the third-ranking member of the Congressional Black Caucus, several members of which have thrown their support behind former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Acknowledging the challenges observers expected him to face in Nevada, Sanders said he was initially discounted in Iowa and New Hampshire, too. We talked about the oppression that people in the LGBT community have faced.
MARTIN: NPR’s Sam Sanders in SC. After noting that “relations between the races” hadn’t gotten better under Obama, Judy Woodruff asked him: “So race relations would be better under a Sanders presidency than they’ve been?” Clinton said, kicking off a long, interactive riff with the crowd at a union hall this afternoon.
The tensions onstage continued to heat up as the discussion moved into foreign policy for the second half of the debate.
Fresh off her double-digit loss in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton sought to undermine surging rival Bernie Sanders in Milwaukee yesterday, arguing that his expansive agenda for government action on healthcare, college costs and infrastructure investments is both impractical and far more costly than he has said. She later added this was the “kind of criticism that we’ve heard from Senator Sanders about our president I expect from Republican”.
Both Clinton and Sanders disagreed with a series of raids authorized by President Obama to arrest and deport some people from Central America who recently came to the country illegally.
Clinton, who has cast herself as the rightful heir to Obama’s legacy, accused Sanders of diminishing the president’s record.
During the two-hour showdown, one of the most heated exchanges was over the issue of wall street ties and campaign finance reform.
“We had a decision to make early on, do we do a super PAC?”.
JUDY WOODRUFF: But Clinton was quick to charge that Sanders’ proposals are, in effect, grandiose and unworkable. He gained more Facebook and Twitter followers than Clinton, and maintained his grip on American curiosity, as shown by Google Trends data.
The frontrunner is leading with 65 percent support among the state’s likely Democratic primary voters, while U.S. Sen.
Clinton will be campaigning in Nevada in the next few days ahead of the caucuses next weekend. 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.
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The Democratic contenders next go before voters in Nevada on February 20 and in SC on February 27.
