Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton said during Saturday night’s debate in Des Moines that the fight against ISIS “cannot be an American fight” and that she doesn’t believe the USA “has the bulk of the responsibility”.
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According to Fox News, the candidates were asked to talk about the horrifying terror attacks in Paris and weigh in on the statement made by Republican bet Senator Marco Rubio that “we are at war with radical Islam”. During Clinton’s last presidential run, in 2008, the group supported then-Illinois Sen.
“I represented NY, and I represented NY on 9/11, when we were attacked”, she began, likely already raising a few eyebrows in the audience.
Sanders, for his part, quickly shot back, asserting that any tax hikes would be justified because of the additional benefits citizens were bound to receive as a result, the news channel noted.
“I don’t think we’re at war with Islam”, she explained.
Sanders, in a brief interview following a town hall meeting at Simpson College in Indianola, said he could pay for his agenda without raising taxes on middle-class families. Suggestions that Clinton is beholden to her Wall Street campaign contributors is “not just morally offensive, it’s truly stupid”, Frank said.
O’Malley said he thought Clinton was trying to distract people from her Wall Street friendly policies. A third Democratic candidate, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, has been forced to shift staff from his Baltimore headquarters to Iowa and other early states as he struggles to raise money.
The number-crunchers at worldwide Business Times were quick to comply, compiling a list of Clinton’s Wall Street contributions to her Senate campaign (before her missionary work following the 2001 terror attacks).
“I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild”. “That was good for NY”.
In a statement to NBC News Monday, and official for the Clinton campaign called the criticism inaccurate. “It was good for the economy and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country”. Clinton supports 12 weeks of paid leave but has not yet indicated how she would pay for her plan.
Clinton has taken the lead in two of the three latest polls in New Hampshire and has a Real Clear Politics polling average lead of 3 points over Bernie Sanders in the nation’s first primary.
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Union leadership evaluated the candidates on their positions as well as “who can win in a general election”, Henry said, adding that “she’s (Clinton) willing to use executive authority to change the lives of working people who are working their hearts out in poverty jobs”.
