After keeping her cool for two hours, Clinton couldn’t resist letting her true colors show through.
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“Well, in addition to the NRA, the health insurance companies, the drug companies, the Iranians”, Clinton said before choosing her favorite enemy.
“While the candidates focused on multiple significant challenges facing our nation tonight, make no mistake-the issue of women’s access to the full range of reproductive care is on the 2016 presidential ballot and will be greatly impacted by the next President”, the PPAF statement said.
“She got through it fine”, he told ABC News on Wednesday.
At the same time, she refused to go along with Sanders’ call to break up Wall Street banks, reiterated her support of the Patriot Act, and said she would not hesitate to use military force if necessary, at times obliquely criticizing President Barack Obama’s White House and, by proxy, Biden for failing to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and for doing too little about the civil war in Syria. He told CNN that Clinton “crushed it” in her debate performance, which should send the message to Democrats that the presidential field is set.
Clinton aides insist the former secretary of state isn’t taking the Democratic nomination for granted.
“I am thrilled that people finally got a chance to compare the Democrats to the Republicans”, Clinton said, referring to Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate. I do, however, think it’s unfair for Democrats or criminal justice reform supporters to throw all of their hopes and dreams behind two candidates who have either done basically nothing on the issue or have supported the very same “tough-on-crime” policies that were a major driver to the incarceration problems we’re facing today, despite a few evidence that they’re beginning to head in the other direction.
A day after aggressively defending her long public service record and contrasting it with that of Sanders, Clinton remained in Nevada, talking to local media in the early voting state. “Most Democrats looked at that debate last night and said there was something for them”.
“Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane warmed up the crowd, riffing that Sanders had ended his fear of saying that “capitalism and democratic socialism… should coexist”.
But it wasn’t just Clinton who did well on Tuesday. “We’re going to have the resources to go all the way to the convention”. Given that there were more substantive responses on the issue given at the Republican debate, and that Bernie and Hillary failed to deliver any real concrete policy solutions despite the softball questions thrown their way, I’m afraid many who favor a more just criminal justice system will end up disappointed if one of these candidates is elected in 2016.
The 15.3 million total far exceeded most expectations, including among CNN executives. The Republican debate on Fox News Channel in August pulled in 24 million viewers, the biggest non-sports number for cable.
Biden mentioned the debate in remarks to reporters on Wednesday but gave no indication of whether he will enter the race. Jim Webb and Rhode Island Sen.
“I am feeling really lucky in Las Vegas”, she said during a visit Wednesday to a union hall in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson.
While the Republican front-runner lobbed criticism in the interview, the Trump campaign also released an Instagram video jabbing Sanders for not seeming like a strong leader.
AP writers Jill Colvin, Josh Lederman and Ken Thomas contributed to this report.
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This story has been corrected to show that Sanders’ campaign says he raised almost $2 million since the start of the debate, not $4 million.
