Clinton, meanwhile, described herself as a “progressive who gets things done”, and ripped Sanders for suggesting Clinton can not be a “moderate” and a “progressive” at the same time. “Don’t go to war.’ Secretary Clinton voted to go to war”, the Vermont senator stated.
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RICK WILKING/REUTERS Senator Bernie Sanders said that his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, was a progressive “some days”.
Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, stand together before the start of the NBC, YouTube Democratic presidential debate at the Gaillard Center in Charleston, S.C. The Democratic presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders reached an agreement in principle on Saturday to hold another presidential debate next week in New Hampshire and three more later this spring.
Sanders asserted that there was nothing inconsistent about his criticism of Clinton’s industry ties and his pledge to run an issue-oriented campaign.
Clinton said Sanders acted as if “anyone who ever took donations or speaking fees from any group has to be bought”. “There’s hardly anything you don’t know about me”.
After debate, AJC reporter Greg Bluestein, who traveled to New England to report on the debate, will have a full breakdown of what went down here.
At the forum hosted by CNN, Sanders said his goal was nothing short of upending the USA political system.
Since then, there’s been lots of back and forth between the Sanders and Clinton campaigns over whether each candidate would participate in the new debate, whether there would be additional debates scheduled, where those debates would be held, and whether the new debates would be sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee.
“Hispanic voters were important for her in 2008, it’s a reason her campaign continued way longer than it should have”, said Fernand Amandi, a Democratic pollster in Florida. He cited her shifts on trade and energy policies and her 2003 Senate vote to back the Iraq war, which she has called a mistake.
“I accept the the fact that I have work to do, I don’t really know here what I want young people to know”, she said after being asked about what she could do to perform better with the key demographic. Clinton is losing by upwards of 30 points in most polls, and a CNN/WMUR survey released on Thursday found Vermont Sen. It was an impressive showing, and revealed both that Clinton is weaker than was widely assumed, and that Sanders and his message have a large audience in the Democratic party.
“I just absolutely reject that, Senator”, said Clinton, whose paid speeches to firms like Goldman Sachs have been used in attack lines by Sanders before. “One of us voted the right way, and one of us didn’t”.
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The intensity is fed by the context: The debate Thursday night comes after Clinton scored a gossamer-thin victory in the Iowa caucuses. “I hope we keep it on the issues. But you’ve got to be able to translate them into action to get results for people”. They have worked with me and many have worked with Senator Sanders. But in doing so, she could infuriate the young voters who Sanders has drawn into the political process.
