The sole female Democratic nominee did not even mentioning her gender until an hour and a half into the debate, remarking that being the first female president would distinguish her from President Obama.
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CNN would have been remiss last night to not ask at least one question about Hillary Clinton’s emails. It was also the top social moment of the debate on Facebook, according to data released by the social network. And it was Sanders who leapt to her defense. “The American people are sick and exhausted of hearing about your damn e-mails”, Sanders said.
“Me too, me too”, Clinton laughed. It’s time to talk about the real issues.
Clinton’s use of the private e-mail server has raised security concerns, and Republicans have pounced on the controversy.
“It was basically a liberal vs. liberal debate about who was going to give away the most free stuff – free college education, free college education for people illegally in this country, free health care, free everything”, said Rubio, who stated on Tuesday that he wasn’t even going to watch the debate.
“This committee is basically an arm of the Republican National Committee”. “There’s no Republican who comes close”, she said. Cooper followed up-asking if he wasn’t defending his vote because he was saying he didn’t understand what he was voting for. “As a Virginian I was hoping Jim Webb would do better but I don’t think that’s really his format”. This committee has spent $4.5 million of taxpayer money. I think we have to think through this war on drugs…
And what many call the winning line of the night… Frontrunners Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton dominated much of the debate, targeting many of their arguments at one another’s distinct policy differences.
“Credibility is an issue”, he said. She was clearly pitching to Democratic, not general-election, voters.
“She worked hard not to leave Biden any opening, and she did a masterful job”, said Democratic strategist Scott Ferson. “Yeah. But I’d do it”. He said he and Carson “get along well”, but “we will see if that continues”.
Clinton recalled “being on a debate stage about 25 times with Sen”. It then cuts to a shot of Black Lives Matter protesters disturbing a Sanders campaign event in Seattle. “We need a tough, strong leader”. “She came out the victor”.
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Former Mayor of Baltimore Martin O’Malley wasn’t safe either. When Sanders was pressed by moderator Anderson Cooper and by Clinton on his gun control record, DeSanto said that Sanders looked very uncomfortable. “And I consider him, obviously, a friend”.
