Sanders picked up a few more states over the weekend, winning caucuses in Maine, Nebraska and Kansas.
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“I think overall the key issue for us here in MI and particularly Detroit when it comes to perspective on the auto industry, these two candidates, both of our Democratic candidates, were in support of President Obama’s auto rescue”, Kanan said.
On Sunday, Sanders and Clinton participated in a debate in Flint, Michigan, ahead of the state’s primary on Tuesday.
Though Ms. Clinton herself found the debate substantive and civil, some amount of social media activity generated by her sympathisers suggested Mr. Sanders was occasionally disrespectful to her. One particular exchange in question related to their respective positions on the federal bailout for the auto industry. “The money was there, and had to be released in order to save the American auto industry and four million jobs, and to begin the restructuring”. On the economy, Sanders emphasized his opposition to the 2008 bailout of the finance sector and Clinton’s Wall Street ties, while Clinton honed in on Sanders’ failure to support the automobile manufacturer bailout of the same year, which proved critical to protecting jobs in MI.
With the Democratic presidential nomination in sight, Hillary Clinton late Sunday sought to repel sharp attacks from party rival Bernie Sanders, while training some fire on Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
Clinton noted that Sanders had voted for the bill and said she agreed with recent comments from her husband that “it solved some problems but it created other problems”. “He voted against the money that ended up saving the auto industry”.
“Let me tell my story, you tell yours”, Sanders replied at another.
The debate in Flint, which is suffering a water contamination and public health crisis, came as Sanders has struggled to slow Clinton’s march to the presidential nomination.
Mr Trump frequently says he will beat either Ms Clinton or Mr Sanders.
Fox News’ chief political anchor said Thursday that Clinton could not attend the event because of a “scheduling conflict”. According to a Quinnipiac University poll, Clinton’s favorability rating at the end of January was 37 percent compared to Sanders’ 51 percent favorability. “There ain’t nothing! I don’t give speeches to Wall Street!”
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On the Republican side, Trump is leading with 12 different state wins and 384 delegates. “I will look forward to engaging him because, I don’t think we need to make America great again”.
