Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and saw a 161 percent increase in searches.
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Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, told CNN that Clinton’s jab was disappointing and “really seemed out of place in the debate”.
Sanders’ popularity among young voters includes Black youth in SC, according to NPR, who could convince their parents and grandparents to vote for the Vermont senator come February 27.
Sanders’ challenge is to prove that he can run a viable campaign outside of the overwhelmingly white states that kicked off the nominating process.
Sanders called that “an insult” to the voters’ intelligence.
Those who went on Twitter during Thursday night’s Milwaukee debate were evenly split in discussing Democratic presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
She spent much of the debate, the first since Sanders and his insurgent army crushed her in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, intent on providing a distinctive dash of reality.
CLINTON: Today, Sen. Sanders said that President Obama failed the presidential leadership test. And this is not the first time that he has criticized President Obama.
“So, let’s not in anyway imply here that either President Obama or myself, would in anyway not take on any vested interest, whether it’s Wall Street, or drug companies, or insurance companies, or frankly, the gun lobby, to stand up to do what’s best for the american people”, said Clinton. Sanders is a presidential candidate who doesn’t take big-fee speeches or big donations from fat cat influence-peddlers, and his record is as clean as the Clintons’ political entanglements are sordid.
“Do senators have the right to disagree with the president?” Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said Clinton’s campaign was “getting very nervous and is becoming increasingly negative and desperate”.
Even so, the restrained exchange on Thursday was unlikely to change the trajectory of a race that has intensified dramatically over two weeks. Only seconds later, he accused Clinton of “flinging personal mud” at Sanders.
“That, I think, between the two of us demonstrates the strength of support among people who want to see change in our country”. “That’s a promise that can not be kept”. And what I have said is I will not throw us further into debt. “In my view healthcare is a right of all people, not a privilege, and I will fight for that”.
However, many were intrigued with the plans Sanders has of raising the taxes on people who are wealthier and on firms on Wall Street, while offering tuition free for public universities. “We have today a campaign finance system which is corrupt, which is undermining American democracy, which allows Wall Street and billionaires to pour huge sums of money into the political process to elect the candidates of their choice”.
“I think that Secretary Clinton pointed out that, if you want to make an accusation against me and my integrity, do it. He didn’t do that”. Sanders talked about the criminal justice system, the disproportionate incarceration of African-Americans and Latinos and the exaggerated difficulty of finding jobs in minority communities.
They both agreed on the need for immigration reform, an important issue to Hispanic voters, though they clashed over the Obama administration’s actions on handling a wave of undocumented children who entered the country alone.
SANDERS: Well, Secretary Clinton, you’re not in the White House yet.
Clinton entered Thursday’s debate under acute pressure to calm growing nervousness among her supporters after her drubbing in New Hampshire and a razor-thin win the prior week in the Iowa caucus.
“Look, I think that she’s been saying that for as long as I’ve known her, which is about 25 years. Give me a few names of people you would end up considering as a Secretary of State or a Secretary of Defense”, Todd said.
Sanders responded: “I’ve said black 50 times”.
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“That’s fine”, Clinton said, going on to defend Kissinger’s policies with China as a net positive for the US “You know, I listen to a wide variety of voices that have expertise in various areas”.
