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Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton both spoke separately at a DFL fundraiser in St. Paul Friday night.
I have no idea whether Sanders’ performance will improve his poll numbers nationally and especially with minority voters. Except when they didn’t. Clinton also recieved a boisterous response from the crowd when she defended and praised the Presidency of Barack Obama.
“In her book and in this last debate, she talked about getting the approval or the support or the mentoring of Henry Kissinger”, Sanders said. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) over what to do with thousands of migrant children fleeing Central America, Hillary Clinton said on Thursday it was important to make it loud and clear why they shouldn’t bother coming. By the time Clinton ended her campaign on June 7, 2008, Obama had almost a 2-to-1 superdelegate advantage over her. When Sanders again dinged her for voting to authorize force against Iraq in 2002, she noted that Obama – like Sanders – had opposed the invasion, yet still tapped her for Secretary of State when he took office. It was the biggest fundraiser of the year for Minnesota Democrats.
COLUMBUS, Ohio-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is proposing a $125 billion economic revitalization plan for under-served communities – particularly in minority areas, according to her campaign.
At one SC university that is historically black, potential voters seemed split during the week over whom to support.
“At the end of my first term, we will not have more people in jail than any other country”, he said.
Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus’s political action committee, said in a statement that Sanders wanted to “undo President Obama’s accomplishments” and also pointed to the MSNBC interview, saying Sanders’ “disparaging comments towards the president are misplaced, misguided and do not give credit where credit is due”.
Clinton has had staff in the state for months and has all but locked down Minnesota’s super delegates, the elected and party officials who get a delegate slot at the national convention automatically.
“We have got to stand up to the Trumps of the world who are trying to divide us up”, said Sanders, referring to Republican front-runner Donald Trump, who has called for deporting everyone in the country illegally and constructing a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“We should be deporting criminals, not hardworking immigrant families who do the very best they can”, Clinton said.
Voters between the ages of 18 and 29 continue to favor Sanders far more than Clinton, 55 percent to 36 percent.
Clinton and Sanders tangled over immigration reform, an issue closely watched by the large Latino community in Nevada, and discussed ways of addressing institutional racism, an issue of interest to black voters, who make up more than half of the Democratic electorate in SC.
THE FACTS: Two early assessments suggest that his accounting comes up short, although more detail and analysis are needed on Sanders’ plan for cradle-to-grave, government-financed health care for all. Clinton said those proposals come with unrealistic price tags.
“What our campaign is indicating is that the American people are exhausted of establishment politics”, Sanders said.
Sanders didn’t shy away from the notion that he wants to expand the size of government.
Sanders’s answer-that healthcare is “a right for the American people, not a privilege”-sounded pretty familiar”. But she was matched by Mr. Sanders as he railed against a legal system in which young people have criminal records because of petty drug offenses while Wall Street executives escaped culpability for the great recession.
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But an even more telling exchange came when Clinton responded to the familiar questions about the Wall Street campaign donations she’s pocketed by noting that Obama took more money from Wall Street than any Democratic candidate in history without compromising his ability or willingness to impose strict new regulations, a degree of independence Clinton claimed she, too, would retain. “I’m asking people to support me because I think I’m the most qualified, experienced and ready person to be the president and the commander in chief”.
