Back up a moment from the brawl between Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders over who is the real progressive and whether one can be that and be pragmatic at the same time.
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Clinton charged that Sanders’ proposal for single-payer universal healthcare coverage would jeopardize Obamacare, calling it “a great mistake”, and said his plans for free college education would be too costly to be realistic.
Clinton attacked Sanders on Thursday for opposing efforts to tighten gun laws and for suggesting that President Obama is also not liberal enough. “She has the entire establishment or nearly the entire establishment behind her”, Sanders said before touting his support from “ordinary Americans”. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) met Thursday in the first of four debates added to the schedule.
“If we’re going to get into labels, I don’t think it was particularly progressive to vote against the Brady bill five times”.
Five days before New Hampshire voters render a judgment in the second of the state-by-state presidential nominating contests, Clinton and Sanders will square off on MSNBC at 9 p.m. EST (0200 Friday GMT) in Durham, New Hampshire.
He said that when a “kid gets caught with marijuana, that kid has a police record”.
Sanders repeated his earlier pledge not to attack Clinton on the controversy over her use of a private email account and a private server for government business when she was secretary of state.
“To my mind, what we have got to do is wage a political revolution where millions of people who have given up on the political process stand up and fight back”, he said.
An NBC, Wall Street Journal, Marist poll released hours before the debate gave Sanders 58 per cent support among likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire and Clinton 38 per cent.
Dean became indignant, as Clinton has, at the suggestion that she has been influenced by the huge speaking fees she received from such institutions as Goldman Sachs.
In this analogy, Clinton, a former secretary of state, USA senator and first lady, is the presumed candidate of those who vote with their head.
Sanders also, though, defended his attack on Clinton, because she, at a recent event, described herself as a “moderate”.
The poll showed a Sanders advantage over businessman Donald Trump and Texas Sen.
Clinton signaled her determination to at least narrow the gap before Tuesday’s vote.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders discussed foreign policy at Thursday night’s debate.
“Secretary Clinton does represent the establishment”, he said. Sanders insisted that the U.S. must cease acting like the policeman of the world, and “work in coalition” with other powers to handle threats to global security, and mentioned his vote against the Iraq War in 2003.
Her voice growing louder at a rally in Derry, New Hampshire, she said “it was a good day for progressives” when she backed an expansion of children’s health insurance coverage for millions of kids, for example.
CNN’s own national Poll of Polls from just before Iowa found Clinton at 53%, Sanders at 36% and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley at 2%.
The increasingly contentious Democratic race was the latest twist in an election campaign that, until recently, had been dominated by the crowded and cacophonous field of Republicans, spread all across New Hampshire.
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Benac reported from Washington.
