There has been no other word yet if the Fox News debate was the only one that was scheduled to take place before the California primary, nor if there will even be another debate before the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this summer. In Puerto Rico, Luisette Colon was an early Clinton supporter before becoming uncommitted; last week, she flipped back to Clinton.
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Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon told Bloomberg TV on Monday that Trump’s attacks are part of a strategy to “distract from an issues-based campaign”.
He said the Democratic Party could choose to be more inclusive.
More than half of voters prefer Clinton on foreign policy.
Sanders’ campaign tentatively accepted the invitation last week under the assumption they could reach a “mutual agreement” with Clinton.
Nor should she, allies say.
However, Clinton supporters say that strategy is also misguided because the latest polls for the California primary show Clinton maintaining her 18 percentage point advantage over Sanders that she held in the last survey three weeks ago.
News broke Monday that Hillary Clinton and her campaign has officially turned down the offer from Fox News to participate in a debate on their network, which is typically a right leaning network that many consider to report news that is uninformed and typically laced with propaganda.
Clinton’s win might give her some momentum, but it won’t get her any delegates. The President, though clearly favoring Clinton as the chosen successor who could secure his legacy, has been respectful to Sanders throughout the campaign. What am I going to do?
But even if he wasn’t married to Sanders’ rival, the fact that some of his key 1990s policy achievements – reforms of criminal sentencing, welfare eligibility and financial regulation – have been repudiated by the Vermont Senator, Bill Clinton isn’t likely to play a unifying role.
“If we can’t get the platform planks that the Senator supports in the platform during the committee process, if we can’t get the electoral reform that the Senator is advocating, then of course those things would have to go to the floor for voters during the convention”, Weaver said Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day”.
“The intensity and frequency of Trump’s attacks are nearly irrelevant” to the candidates’ platforms, Frank Sesno, American University professor of media and public affairs, told VOA, adding that “any attack will drive the media cycle”.
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Bernie Sanders became the target of the former president. But the NY senator is much closer to Clinton so may not have much clout among Sanders supporters.
