But she found little traction to steer the conversation back to jobs and the economy under aggressive questioning from debate moderators.
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While a handful of recent losses to Cruz have raised questions about Trump’s durability, Tuesday’s contests marked another lost opportunity for rivals desperate to stop his march to the nomination.
Ramos, who said that his daughter Paola works for the Clinton campaign, asked the former secretary of state if she’d drop out of the presidential race should her use of a private server while secretary of state result in a federal indictment.
“No, I do not support vigilantes and that is a horrific statement and an unfair statement to make”, he said. “That is the way we will keep the lights on while we are transitioning to a clean energy future”, she said.
“I am not a natural politician, in case you haven’t noticed”, Clinton said at another point.
“I do not want to see them deported”. The resurgence of Sanders’ campaign was evident in his aggressive responses to moderator questions at the Univision-sponsored debate at Miami Dade College. I don’t think the American people will elect a president who is so divisive, who is so coarse, who insults anybody who disagrees with them. I want to see them on a path to citizenship. 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. In Mississippi, black voters comprised about two-thirds of the Democratic electorate and almost 9 in 10 backed Clinton.
Republicans, whose primary has been far more tumultuous, were mentioned infrequently in Wednesday’s debate, although both candidates were pressed – and declined – to call GOP front-runner Donald Trump a racist. “They should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults in their families are”, Clinton said at the time, “because there are concerns about whether all of them should be sent back”.
The senator from Vermont said the task before him was to convince the so-called Democratic “superdelegates”, party elites who have largely sided with Clinton, that he “is the strongest candidate to defeat (Republican front-runner) Donald Trump”, Sanders said.
The surprising and persistent success of the Bernie Sanders campaign showed that I was wrong: Many of Clinton’s fans could be persuaded to vote for someone else.
“No, I will not deport children from the United States of America”, Sanders said. Sanders said he’d come up with a plan “many months before she did”.
Sanders has effectively used his anti-free-trade stance against Clinton, who has been supportive of trade deals but recently came out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Sanders, meanwhile, relished his MI victory, saying he pulled off what “some people considered one of the major political upsets in modern American history”.
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The 2008 vote, he said Wednesday, was part of a larger legislative package that benefited big Wall Street banks.
Clinton and Sanders both broke with the Obama White House and pledged to halt the deportations of undocumented immigrants who don’t have criminal records.
Clinton rebuked Sanders for opposing a comprehensive immigration reform effort during President George W. Bush’s administration.
“They (immigrants) were cheated, they were abused, they were humiliated, and if they stood up for their rights, they would be thrown out of the country”, said Sanders about the 2007 immigration bill, and noted he voted in favor of the 2013 Senate comprehensive immigration reform bill (S. 744).
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During last night’s Democratic debate, both candidates broke with President Barack Obama’s policy of mass deportations of undocumented immigrants across the country and promised to not deport any undocumented children or adults without criminal records.
