Liberal pressure groups continued to cheer on the protests, saying Mr. Trump had gone outside the bounds of acceptable political discussion, but Mr. Trump’s backers called the attempts to shut down his rallies an affront to free speech.
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At the CNN town-hall meeting at Ohio State’s Mershon Auditorium, Sanders did take on Trump, accusing him of inciting violence.
Sanders says on ABC’s “This Week” that anyone following Trump’s campaign “knows that he tells the truth very, very rarely” and that in this instance, “He’s lying again”.
For Clinton, the argument is that she shares numerous same liberal goals as Sanders but would be far better at achieving them. If Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee everything that Republicans have anxious about for years when they thought about the 2016 election will come true if Clinton faces Trump in the general election.
“I believe that I will have an opportunity to really focus in on how risky a Donald Trump presidency would be for our standing, for our safety and for the peace of the world”, she said.
CNN’s Jake Tapper and Roland Martin from TV One are moderating, as the candidates make their case ahead of Tuesday primaries in Florida, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri. Trump has called the governor “a baby”, and Kasich has suggested that Trump and the violence at some of his rallies represent a “dark side” of American society.
She then cast Sanders as “a single-issue candidate”.
Sanders attacked Clinton’s previous support for trade deals and said he would introduce “an entirely different” process for the issue. The future president said the process ultimately made him a stronger candidate and he later persuaded Clinton to become his secretary of state. All three have condemned the violence at Trump’s rallies, but they also are not excusing the protesters. A line stretched down the block, supporters waiting to see Hillary Clinton at Chicago Journeyman’s Plumbers Hall at 1340 W. Washington Blvd.in the West Loop, beginning at 10:45 a.m. Hundreds of Hillary supporters are chanting and hoping IL will pick her in Tuesday’s primary.
Hillary Clinton was hammered by Bernie Sanders on her Wall Street connections, and surprisingly lost MI to him. “I think we need a President who is not just opposed to trade”, she said. “Thank G-d most people are not quite like Donald Trump”, Sanders said. And she says she’d appoint a “trade prosecutor” who would challenge unfair foreign practices on the government’s behalf – rather than waiting on a USA company to do it. Bernie Sanders outlined policy positions and attempted to differentiate their campaigns during stops in Columbus on Sunday night.
“But what happened to you was a travesty”, Clinton said.
Some Clinton backers worry that Sanders, long a self-identified independent, won’t feel the same obligation to support the party the way Clinton claims to have done for Obama in 2008.
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“Maybe, just maybe, the time is right to create an economy that works for all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors” who buy political influence and favors, Sanders said. Rubio and front-runner Donald Trump each got one.
