“The right wing in this country is in a war against women”, Sanders said Saturday at Winthrop University, just hours after the MSNBC nationally televised forum where he, Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley were in the national spotlight. And though Clinton isn’t the first woman to ever make a run for the Oval Office, she stands the best chance of actually achieving that goal.
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The three candidates answered questions on issues of the South becoming a region that continues to grow in support of the Republican Party, building America’s infrastructure and issues facing African Americans in the USA today.
O’Malley, the former Maryland governor, addressed the issue of Democrats losing ground in the South as the party needing to remind Southerners Democrats want to address issues that are important to them, and come up with solutions.
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“One of my personality strengths is that I’m an introvert, which puts me in the minority, apparently, amongst politicians”. She will speak Saturday evening in Columbia at a dinner hosted by state’s largest gay rights organization.
During a round of more light-hearted questioning, Rachel Maddow asked Clinton whether she was an introvert or an extrovert. “That’s not the case”.
He also offers a lengthy defense of the label “socialist”, or more precisely, “democratic socialist” – the designation that has always made Sanders distinct, but that sharply limits his appeal, according to polls. Sanders defended his vote in favor of allowing guns on Amtrak trains by saying it’s an extension of the rules on airplanes and challenging Maddow’s claim that he voted against the Brady Bill five times, since those votes were all related. What I’m trying to do now with young people, with working class people, with low income people, with middle class people, is to say, you know what, United States government is your government.
“You get 12 seconds to say these things”, Sanders told the Journal Wednesday.
The Democratic presidential candidates were given the opportunity to sit down, one on one, with moderator Maddow. Clinton is backed by two.
Sanders, a candidate who’s probably hewed closer to his economic populist stump speech than any of the others, has faced pressure to show a more human side to voters. “This is legislation I have supported, quite honestly, since literally the first year I was in Congress”.
Sanders has had trouble nationally putting a dent in Clinton’s advantage among African-Americans, a dynamic that could pave the way for her nomination given black voters’ strong influence in South Carolina and other Southern primaries that dominate the opening stretch of the 2016 primary calendar.
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But O’Malley didn’t said he wasn’t too anxious.
But, she added, “I do have a few, you know, questions about removing it completely for terrorism, as an example”. Clinton’s performance during the first Democratic debate and the House’s Benghazi hearing seem to have helped sway voters back to her campaign. “Two of them [are] from our party’s rather divided past”. “If Commissioner Holen believes we miscommunicated his support, then we will of course take him off the list”. She mentioned neither of her opponents, directly or indirectly.
She continued with the populist rhetoric that has been a hallmark of her campaign.
“I do not want to see us getting sucked into a quagmire of which there may be no end”, Sanders said in opposing Obama’s Syria policy.
She also talked about issues plaguing the African American community.
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At one point, Clinton said she “still can’t get over” the death of Eric Garner, who was fatally choked by a New York City police officer after an encounter involving the sale of loose cigarettes.
