(CNN) – Hillary Clinton bristled at Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate when she was questioned about her use of a private email server and shrugged off her defeat to Bernie Sanders in the MI primary.
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Facing off Thursday evening, just six days before Florida gives its verdict on the presidential race, Clinton faulted Sanders for repeatedly voting against a 2007 comprehensive immigration reform bill; he faulted her for opposing a 2007 effort to let people who were in the country illegally obtain driver’s licenses. I’ve won some. I’ve lost some’. Luckily for Clinton, they probably will not vote for Trump in the fall (at least not in large enough numbers), but those voters – especially millenials – will only grow as a force, and Clinton and the Democratic Party will need them two and four years down the road.
‘I think the American people are never going to elect a president who insults Mexicans, who insults Muslims, who insults women, who insults African-Americans, ‘ Sanders said.
The results were a setback for rival John Kasich, governor of OH, who had hoped to pull off a surprise win in neighboring MI, and Marco Rubio, a US senator from Florida who has become the establishment favorite but lagged badly in both MI and MS and appeared unlikely to win delegates in either.
“Oh, for goodness”, Clinton replied, visibly frustrated.
Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said the results show Sanders within striking distance of Clinton in the Buckeye State.
Sanders also renewed his attack on Clinton for failing to release transcripts of her speeches to top financial institutions after she left the State Department. “State by state, city by city, neighbor by neighbor, street, by street”.
Now with a second debate in a week, Clinton will again have to decide whether to battle Sanders or fire at the Republicans, including front-runner Trump.
Ted Cruz, a USA senator from Texas whose recent victories have positioned him as the prime alternative to the brash billionaire, won the party’s primary in Idaho.
The moderators heavily questioned the candidates about immigration reform, thanks to the fact that Wednesday’s debate is geared toward a Spanish-language audience with a Spanish simulcast. Sanders even paused at one point to make fun of his own pronunciation of huge as yuge.Both found agreement in pointing to GOP front-runner Trump as markedly worse on immigration than either of them.
Trump built his victories in a state in the industrial Midwest and another in the Deep South with broad appeal across many demographics, winning evangelical Christians, Republicans, independents, those who wanted an outsider and those who said they were angry about how the federal government is working, exit polls showed.
The two candidates laid out rival paths to the nomination, Clinton stressing that she has a strong lead in the delegates. The showdown comes less than a week before crucial Democratic primaries in big, delegate-heavy states that include Florida, Ohio, Illinois and North Carolina.
Clinton, who’s ahead of Sanders in the delegate count – largely due to support she’s expected to receive from so-called “super delegates”, is looking to pad her lead over the Vermont senator.
“We’ll take many, many people away from the Democrats”, he said. Sanders told Clinton, “excuse me, I’m talking”, which Clinton’s campaign aides described as “disrespectful” and “rude”.
Clinton reiterated she made a mistake but said she was “not concerned ” .
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Trump’s three wins further distanced him from his competition in the delegate race.
