“We have to be sensitive and humane in the application of our laws”. “And that should end”, Clinton said.
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On Tuesday, Biden told NBC’s “Today” show that he was not trying to criticize Clinton, a former secretary of state, and that her focus had been on foreign policy, while income inequality had been Sanders’ “mantra”.
An NBC/The Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released Sunday found Clinton with 48 percent and Sanders with 45 percent of likely caucus goers, representing a closer margin than past polls have indicated.
A recent survey in New Hampshire, which borders Sanders’ home state of Vermont, also has the two leading Democratic candidates in a tight race, with 50 percent of likely primary voters favoring Sanders to 46 percent favoring Clinton.
Other analysts out there also see Sanders as a comer.
Hillary Clinton will know that very well, and so will Bernie Sanders. “Sanders voted yes. That is a big difference”, she said Monday.
The Clinton campaign isn’t oblivious to Sanders’ challenge.
“It’s outrageous that multi-millionaires and billionaires are allowed to play by a different set of rules than hard-working families, especially when it comes to paying their fair share of taxes”, Clinton said in a statement.
“Unlike Governor Branstad who cuts public education, I increased public education funding by 37 percent”, O’Malley said, drawing applause from the audience.
Meanwhile, at the forum, Sanders defended a controversial 2005 vote for a law that gave gun manufacturers and sellers immunity from lawsuits.
Sanders wouldn’t back away from that vote, saying: “It’s not a mistake”. Trump, however, has suggested that it was his donations that made her go. “Like many pieces of legislation, it’s complicated”, Sanders said.
During a rapid-fire question round, Sanders was asked if it would be “off-brand” for a Democratic Socialist to live “in a mansion like the White House?” “I don’t think she ever thought she was a prohibitive favorite”.
In her exchange with the Fusion moderators, Clinton mostly steered clear of Sanders.
Asked about the issue of immigration, Clinton said she was against deportations.
And, call me conspiratorial, but I don’t really think he thinks holding grudges is a weakness.
Clinton also led the Democratic presidential polls throughout 2015.
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Billionaire Donald Trump leads the Republican field with 26% support from millennials in the poll, though that mark is lower than he’s stood with Republicans overall in other recent national polling. Former Gov. Martin O’Malley ranks a distant third with 2 percent.
