Clinton aides argue that the heavily white and liberal electorates of New Hampshire and Iowa, where Clinton barely eked out a win, make them outliers in the Democratic primary race.
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Sanders, who has vacillated in recent weeks between aggressive criticism and a softer approach to his rival, offered two responses to the issue on Sunday. Bernie Sanders is now accusing Clinton, as a NY senator, of changing her position on a 2001 bankruptcy bill because of such contributions.
Sanders, for his part, declined to join calls – including from his own spokeswoman – for Clinton to release transcripts of her paid speeches to big banks, but he didn’t reject those calls either. “Clean water is not optional, my friends”, she said, adding “What happened in Flint is immoral”. “You know, I don’t mind being the subject in Republican debates, the subject in the Democratic primary”.
In a CNN interview with Jake Tapper, Sanders put it more bluntly.
“Absolutely not”, Sanders said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation” when moderator John Dickerson asked him about the report.
Booker could be among those mentioned as vice presidential contenders on the Democratic side, and there is no doubt Clinton was impressed as he warmed up crowds for some of her final weekend events.
He also said it would be “a positive thing for the American people” if Clinton would release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Wall Street firms, something the former secretary of state said she would “look into” during Thursday’s Democratic debate but that her campaign now appears to be resisting.
Hillary Clinton’s pose as a critic of Wall Street is running into the awkward fact that she received millions of dollars in speaking fees from financial industry sources, and $675,000 from Goldman Sachs for just three speeches. During the last Democratic debate, Clinton said she would look into releasing transcripts from those speeches.
Aside from her speech at the church, Clinton met with residents and toured neighborhoods with Mayor Karen Weaver.
The role of money in politics is neither as crude as Bernie Sanders suggests, nor as benign – at least when it comes to herself – as Hillary Clinton would have you think.
Sanders and Clinton have tussled over their differing votes on the Iraq War, whereas as Clinton maintains Sanders’ one vote against the war doesn’t translate into a foreign policy plan.
The Granite State revived Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign after a devastating Iowa loss to Barack Obama.
Now, however, he is a major Clinton backer and has regularly targeted Sanders. “We’re now talking about electing the President of the United States and people should make their decision based on who they think can do the job best”.
“We know that Hillary Clinton has experience from Nevada from eight years ago, that there’s a strong Latino community that really strongly backs Clinton”, said Espinoza.
The former secretary of state lags behind Sanders by 11 percentage points among women, 53% to 42%, according to the latest CNN/WMUR poll.
The chair of the Michigan Republican Party, Ronna Romney McDaniel, accused Clinton of using Flint families as “political pawns” and said the visit was a “calculated campaign tactic – an attempt to grab headlines by a struggling campaign”.
Earlier in the week, Sanders reiterated the same line, telling reporters on Tuesday that Clinton “has very significant political connections”.
With a victory seemingly out of reach in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton is looking ahead to the next round of voting to reposition her campaign to counter the rising primary threat of insurgent Sen. “And I resent deeply any effort by the Sanders campaign to so imply” otherwise. “So we’ll see how that plays out”.
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