The date of the NY primary is April 19. “Back in May when Bernie Sanders launched his campaign for presidency, he said it wasn’t going to be about Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, it was going to be about the American people and we were going to have a substantive debate about the issues”, Sellers began.
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The differing commitments are the latest round in an ongoing fight between the campaigns over whether and when the candidates will debate in the delegate-rich Empire State. “We may have a major rally being scheduled”, Sanders told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union”. GMA” offered a debate during “GMA’ on Friday the 15th.
Over the weekend, the Clinton campaign accused the Sanders campaign of playing “games” over the debate schedule and for rejecting three possible dates that they had offered, including April 14.
Since the beginning of the 2016 election season, young Democrats have overwhelmingly supported candidate Bernie Sanders much to the dismay of establishment candidate Clinton.
Actress Rosario Dawson’s 15-minute speech at a New York City rally on Thursday, in which she rallied the crowd by crying “shame on you, Hillary” and noted that Clinton could soon face an Federal Bureau of Investigation interview over the email controversy while at the State Department, underscored the growing tensions between the campaigns. Clinton lost Wisconsin by 17 points in 2008, and her campaign is already downplaying a potential loss by casting the state as the heart of the type of progressive activism that Sanders represents. “Obama also talked a lot about that in 2008”.
Clinton wants to hold the debate in Pennsylvania instead.
Clinton is now the front-runner to win the Democratic presidential nomination with 1,243 pledged delegates compared to Sanders’ 980.
“I understand as we get closer to the end there may be some anxiety, frustration and acting out on the other side that has to look at the facts”.
Sanders also answered questions from News 3 about the recent tone shift of the Democratic race, where he and Clinton have traded barbs about campaign donations from the oil industry and where Clinton accusing Sanders campaign of lying. Whether or not it’s surrogates or whether or not it’s the candidate himself and I think that Representative Barney Frank actually hit the nail on the head that it’s these McCarthyite type attacks.
While Clinton brought in about $15 million less than Sanders for the month of March, the Vermont lawmaker has yet to release his cash on hand figure.
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Her comments were perhaps a preview of her argument in the Brooklyn debate – if it happens.
