Facing a narrowing primary contest, Hillary Clinton ripped into rival Bernie Sanders on Tuesday, saying the Vermont senator was offering unrealistic policies and overstating his anti-establishment credentials.
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Sanders voted in support of the 2005 bill that would grant immunity to gun makers from lawsuits when their weapons were used in crimes.
He said that even young voters, a group that many thought would be in the Clinton camp, have sided with Sanders because of his passion.
“If you’re going to go around saying you’ll stand up to special interests, well, stand up to the most powerful special interest – stand up to that gun lobby”, she said, according to The New York Times. Sanders needled the race front-runner. I think it is fair to say that Hillary Clinton is new to this issue.
Holder said Clinton “has bold plans to address police brutality, fight for common sense reforms to our gun laws”.
He added that Sanders’ health care plan would be paid for “progressively”, similar to the way his previous Medicare-for-all proposals have been paid for. It’s not really about about health care, but about taxes and effectiveness – with a bank shot at Sanders’ electability.
“Now she’s attacking me because I support universal health care”. Sanders’ sudden rise in the polls has some analysts recalling the 2008 campaign when a U.S. Senator from IL made a rapid rise in the polls and eventually knocked off Clinton in Iowa. They won’t quite say she supports it. She “absolutely respects Democrats who support the principle of a single-payer system”, senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan said on Wednesday’s conference call.
Monmouth University put the Vermont senator at 53 percent in New Hampshire, compared to 39 percent for Clinton, and a Quinnipiac poll gave Sanders a five-point lead. It is undermining core Democratic principles. But as he gains on Iowa on Hillary Clinton, it has been the Democratic front-runner who has launched a series of attacks on his plan, painting it as a giant tax on the middle class. The super PAC supporting him has plowed $52 million into ads.
In a letter to supporters in December, Sanders vowed if elected to renew the assault weapons ban and end the sale of high capacity magazines, ban those on the FBI’s terrorist watch list from purchasing firearms, and authorize the government to research the causes of gun violence. Should she win the nomination, Clinton will need that kind of liberal enthusiasm to boost her to victory in a general election. Also today, Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said they would not release that information before the Iowa caucus.
While Sanders’ laser-like focus on economic inequality has been a constant theme of his career, his concern about wages has, at times, placed him on the opposite side of other Democratic priorities.
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Sen. Sanders, of course, also pledges to support women’s reproductive rights, with a desire to increase funding for Planned Parenthood, as well as the Title X family planning program, and other “initiatives that protect women’s health”.
