Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton say they’re both confident that their campaigns will find a workable date for a debate ahead of the NY primary.
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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.
“The Clinton campaign should stop playing games”, spokesman Michael Briggs said Sunday afternoon. The debate before the New Hampshire primary has been identified as a possible cause of Sanders’ victory in the state. Bernie Sanders of Vermont at a campaign rally in Wausau, Wis., Sunday. “I believe that it is an outrage that Republicans who tell us how much they hate the government now want to tell every American woman what she can and cannot do with her body, and I do agree with the Secretary”. While the Clinton campaign is aiming for the evening of April 14, the Sanders campaign is resisting that date.
But an April 14 debate, which NY1 and The New York Daily News have proposed sponsoring together, remains a no-go for the Sanders campaign.
We see Turner on a small stage during the groundbreaking of Sanders’ campaign office in Brooklyn firing up the crowd before they all set out canvassing throughout the borough.
Jefferson Siegel/New York Daily News Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, labor leader George Gresham and NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo celebrating the signing of the $15 minimum wage.
Sanders has always been critical of USA foreign policy and was an early opponent of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He later suggested that Sanders only turned down the Clinton-approved dates so as to cynically spur the outrage of his supporters. “I have watched how we make progress in America, and once you finish venting your anger, then you’ve got to elect people who can get things done”. These primetime debates are often the only times that a lot of voters actually hear about policies and important issues from the candidates themselves. Both Clinton and Sanders have high favorability ratings among Democratic voters in the state – with Sanders at 83 percent and Clinton at 70 percent.
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Clinton said she is not the one negotiating the date, but offered another option from her campaign. She also has a superPAC backing her. Even so, Clinton has, since the very first day of her campaign, criticized the system.
