Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton takes part in a Center for American Progress roundtable discussion on “Expanding Opportunities in America’s Urban Areas” in Washington.
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Sanders said he wouldn’t restore relations “tomorrow” but would move toward them. Bernie Sanders of Vermont a landslide victory in next Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
Special interest money, including campaign contributions from drug companies, was the focus of a heated argument between Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Thursday night during a debate held in Durham, N.H. He has been able to maintain a strong double-digit lead over Clinton before next week’s first primary in New Hampshire.
HILLARY CLINTON: Enough is enough.
Prior to the debate, NBC News polls reported Sanders led in New Hampshire with 58 percent and Clinton at 38 percent.
In mid-January, Sanders scored his first lead over Clinton in the Iowa caucus, but ultimately lost by the slimmest of margins.
“They don’t give it up”, she said.
Clinton’s fiery performance was a manifestation of the frustration growing inside her campaign for weeks. When it comes to his calls for broader government involvement in domestic programs, Clinton said, “The numbers don’t add up”. He spoke of Wall Street executives who destroyed the economy and walked away with no criminal record. Clinton and Sanders went head to head on Wall Street money, foreign affairs agenda and the United States education system.
Sanders fought back repeatedly, questioning Clinton’s progressive credentials and portraying her as a creature of the political establishment in a debate that featured heated exchanges on healthcare, college tuition funding and efforts to rein in Wall Street.
He then took aim at Sanders’ frequent campaign stump claim that he does not receive money from super PACs, which have become a target of progressives who support campaign finance reform. “As we say in the campaign, I am fighting for us and I am not going to stop fighting for New Hampshire”. Even if Clinton believes his proposals are unrealistic, he’s amassing enough campaign cash to keep the race going for months – and potentially enough support among young voters and liberal Democrats to stay competitive in the delegate count. And while Clinton, like Sanders, opposes an outstanding multilateral trade pact, Sanders criticized her for coming later to that position than he did. “A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIL”. “If we were to normalize relations right now, we would remove one of the biggest pieces of leverage we have to try to influence and change Iranian behavior”.
“Why does Hillary Clinton have to put up with a double standard?” complained Dean, who served as chair of the Democratic National Committee after his failed presidential bid.
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That poll found that that while Clinton had a substantial lead over Sanders among Democrats, she lagged behind him on the issue of trust: 48 percent said Sanders was more honest and trustworthy, compared with 36 percent for Clinton.
