Sanders was speaking at the Democratic town hall at Ohio State University in Columbus ahead of Tuesday’s primaries.
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Clinton followed Sanders at the town hall moderated by CNN’s Jake Tapper and TV One’s Roland Martin, an event at which her opponent also began by taking issue with the Republican front-runner.
Clinton spoke second and with a longer, more detailed speech that included an attack on Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton was hammered by Bernie Sanders on her Wall Street connections, and surprisingly lost MI to him.
“It is clear that Donald Trump is running a very cynical campaign pitting groups of Americans against one another”, Clinton said to the audience assembled at Ohio State University. “I don’t want the endorsement of a mayor who is shutting down school after school and firing teachers”.
Each candidate used the different format of the town hall – where the candidate is alone on the stage with the moderators and audience – as an opportunity to not only give more complete or thoughtful answers to questions but to set the stage for the general election, regardless of which candidate wins the party nomination. “It is not acceptable to me and to the American people that the one-tenth of 1 percent now owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent”.
Now he can’t seem to stop talking about her – and not much of what he has to say is very nice. Let me rephrase it: “no rational person is talking about building a wall”.
Clinton firmly believes that Democrats will win in the upcoming U.S. Presidential election. “Sanders and I debating and disagreeing about issues is we’re both presenting ideas”, Clinton said. She reminded people that she is the only candidate to have received more votes than Trump, that she is well-tested on the political battlefield, and that she is uniquely qualified as a former secretary of state to make the case for a president with sound and serious judgment. Once she’s sewn up the nomination, she’ll collect two endorsements that could sway sceptical progressives: one from Sanders, the other from Sen.
Clinton’s misguided praise – which she originally made in a televised interview at the former First Lady’s funeral – sparked immediate ire from LGBT Americans who recalled the Regans’ infamous, deadly silence as more than 40,000 Americans died from the disease by 1987.
Sanders is in a position where winning states is not close to enough if he wants to be the party’s nominee. “We need an entirely new trade policy that creates jobs in this country, not more low-wage jobs overseas”. It is a lynchpin of President Barack Obama’s pivot-to-Asia strategy that she helped implement as secretary of state.
Hillary Clinton on Saturday suggested that Bernie Sanders was not involved with her fight for universal healthcare in the 1990’s — despite video footage from the time that appears to show otherwise. James Inhofe, even though he’s someone who Democrats have pilloried as a climate-change denier.
Delegate math remains on Clinton’s side.
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During a rally Saturday in Springfield, Missouri, Sanders continued to hammer Clinton on trade, saying their views diverged on the North American Free Trade Agreement, which was approved when her husband was in the White House in the 1990s. Sanders has 574 delegates (including 551 pledged delegates and 23 superdelegates).
