Co-host Charlie Rose demanded Sanders justify his candidacy: “Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager said in a memo, ‘The reality is that Sanders needed a decisive victory in Iowa in order to have a viable path to the nomination.’ They’re saying that because you did not win in Iowa, where you had a constituency that should have been for you, that you do not have a viable candidacy”.
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At the forum, which was sponsored by CNN, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders continued to call into question Clinton’s progressive credentials.
Political observers say Clinton should not attack Sanders, but instead focus on courting those younger voters and liberals.
“I accept the fact that I have work to do to convey what I stand for, what I’ve accomplished, what I want to do for young people in our country”, she said.
Although I am not surprised with who placed first and second, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump respectively, it does not make me feel confident in conservatism in the United States.
Sanders, who is crushing Clinton in polls in the Granite State, took aim first, at Clinton’s time after her tenure as secretary of state performing paid speeches. She added that her talk on the campaign trail of prosecuting Wall Street’s bad actors has reversed big bankers’ perceptions of her.
“Reluctantly and after a lot of pressure on her, she came out against the [Trans-Pacific Partnership] and I’m glad that she did”, Sanders said. “That’s what they offered”.
Attendees cheer as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. “Sanders has set himself up to be the gatekeeper on who is the progressive…I’m a progressive that likes to get things done”. O’Malley, for example, often attacked Clinton and Sanders, occasionally bringing up the generational differences between him and the others.
Chris Covert, the SC director for the Sanders campaign, told me they are trying to close the gap with Clinton by establishing deep relationships that will last long beyond any particular election cycle.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have agreed to add four more debates, including one this Thursday in New Hampshire just days before that state’s primary.
Asked this week if Clinton is a progressive, he said: “Some days, yes”. I hope we keep it on the issues. So my spirituality is that we are all in this together and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out on the street, it impacts me.
Sanders pushed back on the suggestion that Clinton is a better general-election candidate than he would be.
Clinton and Sanders are embracing President Barack Obama, whose approval ratings have improved in recent months. The question also highlights her wealth in a race in which the candidates claim to understand Americans who struggle to pay bills. “I plead guilty”, she told the crowd in Columbus, Ohio.
“This is not a low blow. Some of my best friends are moderates”, he said. For the Democratic nomination, the 2016 presidential race really begins here in SC on February 27. He said the narrow Iowa outcome showed his campaign’s ability to take on Clinton’s vast political network and address doubts among voters about his electability. “That’s what she said”.
More than 80 percent of those who think honesty is the quality that matters most in a candidate backed Sanders in the Iowa caucuses, according to entrance polls.
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“I just could not ever skip New Hampshire”, Clinton said Wednesday. “They don’t have to be for me, I will be for them”.
