But they blasted each other for anti-immigration positions over the past years.
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Clinton and Sanders both courted the Latino vote, expressing support for comprehensive immigration reforms.
“I should also say with regard to the 2007 immigration bill, as you may know, LULAC, the major Hispanic organization in this country, also opposed that bill as did many other Latino organizations”, Sanders said.
Sanders, for his part, said he’d come a long way from the early days when his campaign was largely written off. He called his upset victory in MI on Tuesday evidence that his message is resonating.
“That’s his ideal right”, Clinton said during the Democratic debate here on Wednesday night. In the same poll, Clinton led by just 2 percentage points over Texas Sen.
“It is time to bring families together”. Her concentration on Flint probably hurt her with voters who were “very worried” about the economy, where Sanders beat her 56 percent to 40 percent.
“I’m not a natural politician, in case you haven’t noticed, like my husband or President Obama, so I have a view that I have to do the best I can, get the results I can, make a difference in people’s lives”, Clinton said.
She also ran into trouble when she was asked about urging then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer not to give driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, yet supporting those licenses now. Clinton called that figure “painful”.
She said Trump trafficks in “prejudice and paranoia” and says voters can draw their own conclusions about him.
Referring to the top Republican, Sanders said the American people are never going to elect a president who insults Mexicans, Muslims, women and blacks. As the visualization shows, Obama has presided over an uptick in deportations.
At one point, moderator Jorge Ramos of Univision asked her point-blank if she would withdraw from the race if indicted for the email arrangement. Clinton was responding to a question about her lack of popularity after being in the the public eye for decades.
In general, Clinton seemed to get more pointed questions, including over her private-server emails as USA secretary of state. “She said “don’t do it”, and NY state still does not do it”.
And there’s no doubt that merely having to campaign in such a vast state with expensive media markets would be a big setback for Clinton, Ross said. The two sparred again on her Wall Street speeches.
One of Clinton’s wilder claims was that Sanders had “sided with the Koch brothers” – the billionaire conservative benefactors so despised by liberals – in their mutual opposition to the Export-Import Bank and government-backed trade support it provides to big corporations. After the various rounds of redistricting, Democrats are also hopeful they can make inroads in the U.S. House by winning a few newly drawn seats that now look more favorable to them and cut into the GOP majority in the state Senate.
Clinton sought to turn the page quickly here from her embarrassing and unexpected loss in MI, which appeared to slow some of her recent momentum toward the nomination.
Clinton said it was a “hard vote” and if everyone joined Sanders then the industry would have failed.
Immigration commanded considerable attention for good reason: Florida is home to almost 1.8 million Hispanics, including about 15 percent of the state’s Democrats.
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She caught a break near the end of the debate when the moderators confronted Sanders. a self-described democratic socialist, about past statements in praise of Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, including a 1980s video of Sanders praising Cuba. And they also asked about the Puerto Rico economic crisis.
