Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will get a chance to see the water crisis in Flint first hand when they come to the state for a March 6 debate, two days before Michigan’s presidential primary election.
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The event will be broadcast on CNN starting at 8 p.m., with host Anderson Cooper moderating.
Clinton narrowly defeated Sanders in the Iowa but the Vermont Senator has a comfortable lead over the former Secretary of State in New Hampshire.
Clinton supporters in the state have also started reaching out to people who backed former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who suspended his campaign earlier this week.
Clinton made it clear Wednesday that she’s in the game, telling an audience at the Derry Boys and Girls Club that she’s defying the “political pundits” who opine that she should skip New Hampshire in favor of states where she enjoys significant leads.
Clinton moved quickly to defend her record, saying that under Sanders’ criteria President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and even the deceased Minnesota Sen.
With less than a week until New Hampshire primary, Clinton and rival Bernie Sanders appeared separately on the stage at the opera house in Derry, New Hampshire, trying to frame their images for voters, even though both are well-known in the state. Sanders continued his outreach to local colleges to pursue his interactions with students to reinforce their support for his candidacy, which is the major focus of his campaign.
Like she has done in the past, Clinton alluded to her Christian faith, and brought up the parable of the prodigal son. “I’ve had to be in public, dealing with some very hard issues”.
Meanwhile, in NY, the East Village’s Coalition for a District Alternative political organization endorsed Sanders.
Despite their differences, Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen.
She said part of that plan is to implement a “Buffett rule”.
After New Hampshire, the next-up primaries in Nevada and SC are tests for how well Sanders can perform among Latinos, who are a strong presence in Nevada, and African-Americans, who make up a majority of South Carolina’s Democratic electorate.
New Hampshire’s sizable contingent of independent voters – who are allowed to vote in either the Democratic or Republican primaries – will wield considerable power in the 2016 race.
“I respect the fact that I have work to do”, said Clinton. “Injustice bothered me very, very much”, he said.
“I’ve been an activist for a long time and she’s really inspiring”, Groenewal said of Clinton.
“Well, I don’t know”.
“I know that they tend to favor their neighbors”, she said on CNN’s “Situation Room” this week.
Clinton and Sanders want to boost funding for Planned Parenthood, the health care provider that performs abortions and is under attack by Republicans who want to stop government financial support.
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Jim Demers, Obama’s 2008 New Hampshire co-chair and a noted gambler, offered this when asked if he would bet on Clinton: “First of all, I am a betting man. Second, I would look at the odds”.
