The comments come as Clinton has cemented her position as the Democratic frontrunner in the weeks since the first Democratic debate, where Sanders was applauded for what appeared to be a defense of his rival.
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Bernie Sanders, who is Clinton’s chief challenger for the Democratic Party nomination for the 2016 presidential election, has said the federal minimum wage should be raised to $15 an hour.
Inskeep asked how Sanders might convert a few of this appeal to a better showing in the primaries and caucuses against Clinton. When the discussion turned to bank and Wall Street reform, Colbert joked, “Can you at least just get back from them the $3 they charge us to take $20 out of an ATM?”
The National Bar Association’s CLE Civil Rights Commemoration Tour goes from November 30 to December 1 and will include tour sites and events planned in Selma, Montgomery and Tuskegee.
What Sanders, who comes from the sportsmen-friendly state of Vermont, originally said was that, ‘As a senator from a rural state, what I can tell Secretary Clinton, [is] that all the shouting in the world is not going to do what I would hope all of us want, and that is keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have those guns and end this terrible violence that we are seeing’.
In the Journal interview, he revived two lines of attack he used recently at Iowa’s iconic Jefferson-Jackson dinner: his long-standing opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and his vote in 2002 against authorizing the war in Iraq.
“The difference perhaps that I have with the secretary on that is that I believe we need a consensus”, Sanders said.
“Let me say this”. Thirty-four percent of Clinton supporters, and 46 percent of Sanders supporters said they would have chosen Biden over their first choice had he run.
Sanders regularly downplays the issue as one that doesn’t rise to the level of raising wages, climate change and education reform, but doesn’t dismiss the email investigation entirely.
“We had to fight very hard in the last six months to get my name out there, to get my ideas out there”, he said.
Sanders and his campaign team insist he said nothing new about Clinton’s e-mails in the Journal interview than he has said previously.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who has struggled to gain traction in a field dominated by Clinton and Sanders, has also pushed for more stringent gun control.
“I worry for example about the power of Wall Street, about their economic power and political power”.
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Huffman said Democratic primary voters in SC seem to be ambivalent about the potential effects of real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump. The Sanders campaign has made a big show of promising not to go “negative” in this campaign.
