Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’ Malley will face off in a Town Hall Monday night, with hopes of winning over potential voters in the upcoming Iowa caucus.
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Hilliary Clinton on January 25, 2016 in Des Moines, Iowa. “They come up with these outlandish things; they make these charges and I just keep going forward because there’s nothing to it”.
Still Obama, asked whether Sanders reminded him of himself, told Politico: “I don’t think that’s true”.
“They throw all this stuff at me and I’m still standing”, she said.
“It’s a great country and we all on the Democratic side are having a spirited debate about the issues we care about”, Clinton said, adding that Republicans have not done the same.
Clinton’s implication is that Sanders’ ideas sound nice – but have nowhere to go in Congress. That was clear when his ad featuring the Simon and Garfunkel song “America” was played, and she smiled and complimented it as “fantastic” – and paused – and then said that she’d be the better president and commander-in-chief. Sanders is likely to be haunted by his statement, “We will raise taxes, yes we will”.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a message Monday night for a young supporter of Sen.
One of Clinton’s biggest applause lines comes when she mentions that the economy has done better under the two Democratic presidents who have served in the past 35 years than the three Republicans. Though the survey showed a significant cushion for Clinton, her advantage was smaller than at any time since September.
“I was really touched and gratified when I saw that”, Clinton said, relating how her relationship with her former 2008 Democratic primary rival developed into a close friendship when she served as his first-term secretary of state.
“The real way to do it is to have millions of Americans finally stand up and say, enough is enough, for people to get engaged in the political process, to finally demand that Washington represent all of us, not just a handful of very wealthy people”, he said.
Obama took issue in the interview with those who compare him with Sanders, an underdog who excited young voters and draws large crowds as Obama did. O’Malley, the former Governor of Maryland, is far back in the race.
He also said he restored voting rights to 52,000 people, and decriminalized the use of marijuana. “People who feel left out and left behind – they should be mad, and they should feel left out and left behind”, Clinton said.
Clinton weeks ago chose to align herself with Obama and his legacy – a bid to win Obama loyalists. “We need to improve Obamacare and I think Hillary Clinton is the person to do that”. And, living up to his image as a self-declared Democratic socialist, he warned corporations and the richest Americans that they would pay more. Schultz’s cozy relationship with Clinton might also account for the DNC’s overreaction to a brief security breach of Clinton campaign data back in December by one of Sanders’ staff members, after which Schultz deprived Sanders of his own data until Bernie filed suit to have access to his information restored. Sanders said he would release medical records as soon as possible to show he is in excellent health.
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Sanders cited Clinton’s 2002 Senate vote to authorize the Iraq war and her prior support for the Canada-to-Texas Keystone Pipeline as evidence that her experience is misguided.
