Clinton came to Flint on Sunday, taking a break from campaigning in New Hampshire days before the state’s critical primary on Tuesday, to stress the need to urge the Republican controlled Senate to approve the Senate Democrats’ $600 million amendment to help Flint.
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“This is not merely unacceptable or wrong, though it is both, what happened in Flint is immoral”, Clinton said.
“When you’re making a revolution, you can’t be too careful about the facts”, said Clinton sarcastically.
“When the next bill came up, 2005, women’s issues were taken care of because I had made that a point back in 2001”, Clinton continued, referring to a later piece of legislation.
Dante Scala, an expert on the New Hampshire presidential primary who teaches political science at the University of New Hampshire, said Sanders may be winning over some of Clinton’s blue-collar and moderate Democratic supporters.
But this year, with Sanders leading in the state by double-digits in many polls, Clinton is aiming her emotions at a far broader audience in the states that follow: the February 20 Nevada caucuses, the February 27 SC primary and a swath of states holding contests on March 1. “But if you look at Sanders he has been solid as concrete with regards to his passion for racial, social and economic justice”.
You know what? Just don’t cross her, and you’ll be fine.
Clinton aides worry that a big Sanders victory in New Hampshire would help him make headway among women and minority voters, important parts of the coalition that twice elected Barack Obama as president.
Bernie Sanders in the nation’s first presidential primary.
“Occasionally you go off the campaign trail”, Clinton said at the Dunkin” Donuts, where she took selfies with customers. Is it good for New Hampshire?
And so on. When I hear the name “Clinton”, I think “fierce opponent of sexism”.
“No president can walk in there and make changes unless millions of people become engaged in the political process in a way that we have not seen for a very, very long time”, he told more than a thousand supporters gathered in a community college gymnasium in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Sunday. With a solid lead in New Hampshire, he is spending heavily in SC by advertising on local black radio stations and paying black organizers, some who worked on both of President Obama’s campaigns, to go door to door canvassing on his behalf.
As the New York Times reports, he mocked Sanders’s criticism of the “establishment”, snarking that according to Sanders, “Anybody that doesn’t agree with me is a tool of the establishment”. At the most recent Democratic presidential town hall, for instance, Clinton was asked by Anderson Cooper if it was a mistake to accept $675,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs. “It was your campaign that made 25 separate inquiries in the mere space of 30 minutes trying to breach information out of computers”, he said. “It was pretty glowing about us”, the attendee told Politico of the speech.
The comment was another jab at Sanders in a weekend that was full of them from Clinton and her surrogates.
In 2008, Clinton largely carried the women’s vote in states she won and lost the women’s vote in states she didn’t.
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“I have no idea what they’re talking about or who they are talking to”, Clinton said on MSNBC.
