Sanders released the tax return on Friday, a day after being challenged to do so by Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton at Thursday’s debate in Brooklyn, which came after Clinton was questioned about releasing transcripts of her paid speeches, NBC News reported.
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Mrs Clinton holds a 13.8-point lead over the Vermont senator in the NY polls and needs a strong win in Tuesday’s primary after losing seven of the last eight contests. Bernard Sanders of not releasing his tax returns (he promptly responded his 2014 returns would be released Friday).
On the fight for a $15 minimum wage, Clinton said NY should be a model for the nation, with some areas starting at $15, and some moving there gradually.
Clinton and Sanders did little to hide their annoyance with each other.
“What we have always done in my family, is Jane does them”, he said Thursday. And by the time you get to $5,000, a total of 91 percent of Sanders supporters in this poll said they wouldn’t pay that much in new taxes. She wants to, particularly on issues of foreign policy and national security, I think last night, you saw, she was very, very lucid about how we can create stability in the Middle East as well as how do we keep America safe.
On the Republican side, about half of likely voters identify as Catholic – and a majority live outside New York City and its suburbs. She said he intended all along to vote for the candidate with the most delegates coming in.
While Clinton may have tried to paint Sanders’ ideas as unrealistic, he used the debate to cast doubt on her judgment and credibility, CNN reports. “Unfortunately, I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate, and that’s what that will show”.
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“I thought it was a good debate”, he said. Clinton, a former NY senator, has unveiled conditions ranging from public support to the disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing fluid before she’d support the drilling practice as a USA president. “Secretary Clinton will have to explain to the people of our country how it could be that every other major country on Earth manages to guarantee healthcare to all of their people, spending significantly less per capita than we can”, he said, comparing the USA system to Canada’s. “Describing the problem is a lot easier than trying to solve it”, she said.
