MSNBC host Rachel Maddow pressed likely Hillary Clinton Friday night, asking her at the South Carolina Democratic forum which candidate from the Republican field she’d pick to serve as her vice president.
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Clinton is “completely out of touch” with VA issues, which are “inarguably widespread”, Dan Caldwell, a spokesman for Concerned Veterans for America, told The Associated Press on Thursday. She will speak Saturday evening in Columbia at a dinner hosted by state’s largest gay rights organization. A 2013 Supreme Court decision struck down the first part, and this year’s marriage equality ruling by the high court took care of the rest. Jimmy went right into the fact there has never been a woman president.
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Front-runner Clinton was interviewed after the two men. “Our party is the party of opportunity for all”, said O’Malley. Clinton said, “People rightly believe that corporations and the powerful have stacked the deck”.
Questions about Clinton’s leadership of the State Department when terrorists attacked the USA consulate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, top the Republican presidential campaign agenda. “I went to his wedding”, she demurred with a laugh.
Clinton then came out to get a few campaign ideas including free food in restaurants, free toys and no school. O’Malley directly called out Clinton, while Sanders did so indirectly.
“I mean, why? It makes no sense why that happened”, Clinton said of the shooting of Walter Scott, who was shot and killed as he was running away from police in North Charleston last April.
“‘Virtually’ is the key word there”, he said. “Other countries around the world are doing it”.
Sanders also contrasted himself with Clinton, suggesting she was a creature of the establishment, and said it took far too long for her to decide to oppose the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. “Leadership isn’t about following polls”, he said.
It’s been six weeks since Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) dropped out of the presidential race, a casualty of low poll numbers and financial challenges. He touted his record of accomplishments at the executive level in Maryland and in Baltimore, where he was once mayor, as reason to support him. “We need to understand more about why people are not voting at all… or why other people don’t trust the Democratic Party or the progressive approach to solve these problems”. “How do we make college more affordable, how do you get the debt that kids have built up down so they can afford to get on with their lives”. Asked if she could beat him in an election tomorrow, she said blithely: “Sure”.
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In August, Sanders lumped the media in with the Koch Brothers, the Republican moneymen whom the Vermont senator regularly rails against.
