While Clinton has used President Obama’s super PAC to justify her own, she will have little success pushing the same excuse against Trump, who can criticize the President in ways that Bernie Sanders, as a Democratic candidate, never could.
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With Nevada next, Sanders now faces a test of how he does with non-white voters after the largely white states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
After splitting the first two states in the state-by-state primary contest with Sanders, Clinton also deepened her assertion Thursday night that her unexpectedly strong rival was energizing voters with promises “that can not be kept”.
As a woman who decidedly did not support other women who accused her husband of rape, Clinton’s having a hard time with this line of questioning. It’s likely his first choice probably would have been his right-hand man Vice President Joe Biden. In the past he has called him weak. He’s called him a disappointment.
Clinton rounded out her attack by citing Sanders’ record of past criticisms against President Barack Obama.
Madeleine Albright said Friday that her controversial comment was “undiplomatic”. “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow – and I will, if they deserve it, if they pose a systemic risk – would that end racism?”
During the two-hour showdown, one of the most heated exchanges was over the issue of wall street ties and campaign finance reform. “When it mattered, he stood up and took on Wall Street”.
“In my view, the government of a democratic society has a moral responsibility to play a vital role in making sure all our people have a decent standard of living”, Sanders said. But also for the details provided by both candidates’ as to their foreign policy stances. In South Carolina specifically, the population is made up of a comparatively higher African-American population than the previous primary states and the entire country.
And on foreign policy, he said, “I do get a little bit exhausted of being lectured by the Clinton people”.
“I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country”, Sanders said. And what I have said is I will not throw us further into debt.
Meanwhile, outside Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where the debate was held, hundreds of demonstrators, many allied with the Fight For 15 movement, converged.
You know, I think, again, both of us share the goal of trying to make college affordable for all young Americans. “The fight for $15 has shown me that’s not true”.
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“This isn’t surprising in any way, but Bernie Sanders is more of a purist and Hillary Clinton is more of a…pragmatist, maybe?”
