Clinton’s single biggest objective all night – especially heading into SC, where African-American voters are hugely influential – was to drive a wedge between Sanders and Obama. With both candidates courting minorities ahead of the SC primary and Nevada caucuses, there was agreement on the need for reform in the criminal justice system.
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Both candidates portrayed themselves as the candidate most attuned to women’s concerns.
“The numbers don’t add up”, Clinton about Sanders’ plan for free public college education. I have. But I think to suggest that I have voiced criticism, this blurb that you talk about, you know what the blurb said?
At the very least, Walker is right on the voter turnout being lower if Sanders loses to Clinton.
When it came to the recent deportation raids: “I disagree with his recent deportation policies, and I would not support those”, Sanders said. “We’re not going to dismantle anything”, Sanders said. But those kinds of personal assessments and charges are ones that I find particularly troubling.
“One of us ran against Barack Obama, I was not that candidate”, Sanders said in response to Clinton attacking him for his criticisms of Obama.
I must say that Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff were fair in their questioning of both candidates as compared to NBC which is pro-Hillary all the way.
Clinton was asked why women under thirty overwhelmingly voted for Sanders during the New Hampshire primary. “When it mattered, he stood up and took on Wall Street”, she said. Clinton and Obama ran a hard-fought, testy 2008 primary, and while they patched things up and developed a strong working relationship during her time as Secretary of State, she has many more closer allies within the party.
“There’s a huge gap right now between Congress and the American people”, the senator said on “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” earlier. “I guess just for the fun of it”, he added sarcastically.
Thorpe served in the administration of Bill Clinton, handling economic estimates of the former president’s failed health care overhaul plan.
Sanders accused Republicans of being hypocrites on the federal government’s role when it comes to women. If she went up against Trump, there is an argument to be had whether or not those same voters who side with Sanders, would vote for Trump. “This isn’t about math. It’s about peoples’ lives”.
The tone of this debate was summed up by the friendship between Sanders and Clinton. People are going to lose their Medicaid.
Moments later, he needled Clinton when she described post-inaugural tax code changes she would seek by saying “once I am in the White House I will have enough political capital to do that”.
“I voted for comprehensive immigration reform in 2007”.
Sanders was asked whether or not he anxious he may thwart the nation’s first female president.
Sanders: “I think a Sanders victory would be of some historical accomplishment, as well”.
While systematic racism and the backing of minority supporters remained the focus of the sixth Democratic presidential debate on Thursday night, some other “domestic issues” also rose to the forefront.
And while Sanders reiterated a point he often makes: that “one major country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all people”, Clinton responded with resounding pragmatism: “And we are not England”.
And I just couldn’t agree – disagree more with those kinds of comments.
Clinton, meanwhile, was aiming to hit a much broader issue set – and made that clear from her opening statement.
The Clinton campaign blasted out their own fundraising appeal complaining they were “outspent 3-to-1 on television in New Hampshire, and we need to make sure that doesn’t happen again”.
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Clinton also quickly looked to answer one of the major questions Democrats urged her to answer after her loss on Tuesday: why, exactly, she is running.
