Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, left, is handed roses at an event to meet with immigrants, or so-called “dreamers”, at a campaign office Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, in Las Vegas.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Civil rights leader John Lewis is softening his dismissal of Bernie Sanders’ work in the 1960s on behalf of racial equality. Here he is answering a question Thursday at the endorsement press conference. “That is why I need you, my friends, more than ever”.
“I never thought my voice could make a difference”.
Hillary Clinton’s southern firewall seems intact – for now. Sam, what do you read into that language?
Mr Sanders knows that too.
MARTIN: Give us the numbers.
Clinton is making a strategic move ahead of the SC primary, where a substantial percentage of the electorate is African American. By some estimates, black voters make up half of the Dem. primary voters.
Twenty are governors, including Vermont’s own Peter Shumlin; 47 come from the U.S. Senate and 193 come from the House of Representatives – and, yes, Bernie Sanders is a superdelegate.
Both candidates sought to appeal to black voters on Friday.
For months now, the thinking has been that Clinton will have strong black support in this state. And she accused Sanders of trying to shade the truth about what she said would be a 40 percent increase in the size of the federal government in order to implement his policies. That generated outrage among African Americans.
Clinton’s support in SC has dropped in CBS polls from 72 percent since November.
Clinton also used the opportunity to launch a veiled attack on her Democratic rival, telling the crowd “I’m not a single-issue candidate, and this is not a single-issue country”.
As the visualization below shows, the moderators focused many of their questions on the candidates’ records, requiring the two onstage to engage directly with each other in spirited debate.
“They’ve given us a whole series of losers”, she says of the establishment, “and we’re fed up”. They have problems with his bill to reform welfare, which some say hurt black families. But the state has the nation’s highest rate of underemployment, which measures people who have stopped job hunting or those who are in part-time jobs that want full-time employment. And they see Clinton as part of that machine that did those things. I mean, it sounds generational.
“Some of us believe that what God teaches us what this world is about is that we do not turn our backs on our brothers or our sisters”, Sanders said. “In my view healthcare is a right of all people, not a privilege, and I will fight for that”.
“My youngest daughter is very much for Hillary”.
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“A superdelegate is what we would call an uncommitted delegate so this is a member of the party elite who will go to the convention and cast a vote based on their own judgement”.
