Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is hitting Wall Street with a double barrel of truth via two new political ads that will begin running in New Hampshire and Iowa. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley also addressed the gathering separately.
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“And people say, well, can you do that without raising taxes on the middle class?”
Their candidate is working hard to make up the difference in the state: Saturday was the second day of a four-day swing through the South, which includes six public stops in SC and two in Georgia. “I will not deny, if the election were held today, we would lose”. Bernie Sanders, who she said would raise taxes on the middle class.
Clinton, however, declined to respond, instead delivering her rote stump speech, focusing on expanding Medicaid, Republicans and foreign policy.
“Some of the Hillary supporters that I’m friends with, they were making fun of me at first”, said Wright, who has voted with the Green Party in the past.
“I go after not just the banks”, Clinton told the crowd, pledging a tough approach to regulating the industry despite receiving tens of millions in speaking fees, donations to the family foundation and campaign cash from Wall Street in her career.
The Clinton campaign is also releasing two new advertisements that will start airing in the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire next week. Sanders told reporters ahead of his remarks that he was “confident” that he would fare “really, really well in SC”.
“We are going to do well in SC, but we’re not doing well right now”, Sanders said.
“We can manage to do that while preserving the accomplishment of the Affordable Care Act”, she said.
At no point during her speech did Clinton mention her Democratic opponents.
Polling averages show Sanders down almost 53 points to Hillary Clinton in sc, a huge gap that has widened in recent weeks.
Clinton has said she supports paid family leave but has not embraced a bill introduced by Kirsten Gillibrand, Clinton’s successor as a senator from NY, that dozens of progressive lawmakers have lined up behind in both chambers of Congress.
Sanders went so far as to say he could win SC, though he said the victory would come as a surprise to many. Laying claim to being the only candidate who is a lifelong Democrat, O’Malley accused Sanders of trying to implement socialism and Clinton of being beholden to Wall Street interests.
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“My name is Martin O’Malley”, he said. “For a long time, watching the national news, I’m sure you thought you only had two choices”. “Well, guess what? You’ve got three”.
