In a city plagued by toxic water, the Democratic presidential candidates answered the question on thousands of Flint residents’ minds- if elected president, what they would do to prevent further situations similar to Flint?
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The ad came after one of the most heated exchanges during Sunday night’s CNN debate between the two candidates.
Mr Trump frequently says he will beat either Ms Clinton or Mr Sanders. “But compare the substance of this debate with what you saw on the Republican stage last week”. “He should issue an immediate apology to Americans with mental health disabilities”. “She did”, Sanders said, referring to Clinton’s time as a NY senator.
But, she added: “There is only one candidate in either party who has more votes than him, and that’s me”.
Last’s debate in Flint focused on a number of issues impacting MI, mainly the Flint water crisis.
Mr Sanders said he would “love” to run against Mr Trump and noted many opinion polls showed him faring better against him than Ms Clinton did.
“I had a lot of passionate supporters who did not feel like they wanted to support then-Sen. That was the case in Colorado, where we won as well”, he said. He described going shopping with his mother as a boy in Brooklyn, New York, and seeing people with numbers on their arms from Nazi concentration camps.
“I am very proud to be Jewish, and being Jewish is so much of what I am”, he said at the event in Flint, Michigan.
After a brief pause, Clinton said, “If you’re going to talk, tell the whole story”, to which Sanders shot back, “Let me tell my story and you tell yours”.
Sanders has done well in states with largely white populations – like ME – but has struggled among non-white voters, especially across the South.
And with the debate taking place in Flint, Mich., both former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. On the other side, a Republican candidate must earn 1,237 delegates to represent his or her party in the general election.
Sanders suggested that Clinton was talking about a “Wall Street bailout where some of your friends destroyed this economy”.
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“Hillary Clinton has already demonstrated that she will be standing strong for Flint, with or without political implications”, U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Michigan, said.
