Among Democrats, Clinton, 68, also has a solid double-digit lead in MI opinion polls over rival Bernie Sanders, 74, a USA senator from Vermont. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, speaks at the Univision-Washington Post Democratic presidential debate at Miami-Dade College in Florida, March 9, 2016. But she also led in pre-primary polls in MI, where Sanders surprised her with a 50 percent to 48 percent victory. “I think you’re going to see some of them rethinking their commitment to Secretary Clinton if we can show that we’re winning states around this country”, he said.
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He had targeted Clinton’s past support for trade policies like NAFTA and the Obama administration’s Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying that trade pacts kill the kinds of manufacturing jobs that many Michiganders have.
But even with Sanders hewing close to his core platform and Clinton again demonstrating her nimble grasp of policy, the tone was feistier and more urgent than in previous debates. That answer might not matter much in the industrial Midwest, but it worked in Miami, at a Univision-Washington Post debate featuring questions in Spanish with English translations.
Senator Sanders responded he did not believe Americans would elect a president who insults Mexicans, Muslims, women, African Americans, and immigrants.
While Clinton declined to outright call Trump a racist, she turned his campaign slogan against him by saying: “You don’t make America great by getting rid of everything that made America great”.
‘We are better than what we are being offered by the Republicans, ‘ she said. And despite the loss in MI, the night was not a total loss because of the number of delegates Clinton picked up, Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, said during a conference call with reporters.
The barbed exchanges are likely to have done damage to both candidates in the eyes of viewers.
“I will do everything I can to prevent other families to face what you are facing”, Clinton said.
“I think that many of these superdelegates who understand the most important issue is that we do not allow a Republican to get into the Oval Office”. When Spitzer dropped his proposal, she came out with a statement supporting his decision to ax the plan to give the driver’s licenses. Sanders has crowed that he has opposed virtually every agreement since he was a freshman in Congress and hammered Clinton for reversing her position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the proposed trade agreement with a host of Asia-Pacific countries. Narrated by actor Morgan Freeman, it argues that Clinton has “always stood with us”, and shows her advocacy on behalf of the mothers of black men killed during police incidents, the water crisis in Flint, and emphasizes her ties to President Barack Obama.
“They didn’t do so well tonight, folks”, Trump said in a victory speech in Florida, referring to his Republican rivals.
At first, the former secretary repeated past answers about using due process to ensure immigrants get a fair hearing and drew a distinction around those children, especially those fleeing violence in Central America, who would qualify for refuge under US and worldwide asylum laws.
Trump’s convincing win in MI narrowed prospects for the party’s anti-Trump forces to stop him before next Tuesday’s contests, which also include Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri.
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Trump has so far won 384 delegates to 300 for Cruz, but the contests over the next week will play a big role in determining whether any candidate gathers the 1,237 needed to win the nomination or if the decision will have to be made at the convention in July.
