Sanders also indulged in several asides of a historical nature, tipping his hat to Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, and ripping into former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, whom Clinton had cited as someone she listened to.
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“We shouldn’t be letting Wall Street be destroying Main Street”, Clinton said. She – like her husband before her – polls well among minority voters, while Sanders enjoys strong support among white voters. He said it in his opening statement, and I anxious he would say it 20 more times (but in fact, it was more like five).
To kick off the debate, moderator Judy Woodruff started with a basic philosophical question for Sanders: how big should government be? Much of Sanders’ appeal stems from his ability to channel and amplify voters’ own fury at the USA economic system eight years after a crisis in the financial system plunged the country into a deep recession. It began working on Clinton’s behalf in 2014. Sanders leans into the podium, his right index finger pointing at the viewer as he promises a radical new way of doing business. Since then, Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, has appeared at Priorities USA Action fundraising events.
Two days after the New Hampshire primary loss, Hillary Clinton tried to corner Bernie Sanders over his Obama critique but got slammed in return.
Clinton, who is keen to strike a new path as the presidential campaign moves south and west, quickly went on the offensive, hammering the senator from Vermont on health care and his plan to make university education free for all.
Sanders called Clinton out for advocating the return of the children who poured across the southern border in 2014.
Clinton concurred on a need to address a criminal justice system, but she cast her proposals for fighting racial inequality as broader than his.
His writings and advice on geopolitics remain required reading in the foreign policy community in the United States and overseas.
“This is not about math – this is about people’s lives, and we should level with the American people”, she said.
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed sharply in a debate on Thursday over their support for President Barack Obama, with Sanders accusing Clinton of “a low blow” after she compared him to Republicans.
Health care was another point of disagreement.
“We’re a nation which if we come together there is nothing we can’t accomplish”, he said.
They also agreed on the idea of making college more affordable for those enrolled in and graduated from college.
On and on this went.
Korb wrote in Politico this week that he “was surprised to hear” that Sanders named him, noting that the had only spoken to Sanders once during the senator’s presidential campaign.
Clinton, meanwhile, said she doesn’t want people to support her because of her gender, but because she’d be “the most qualified, experienced, and ready person to be the president and the commander- in-chief”.
“Let’s not insult the intelligence of the American people”.
Both of them touted their credentials on issues that candidates view as important to women, like paid family leave and equal pay – issues on which they broadly agree.
Sanders boasted of his sterling abortion-rights record.
The candidates had lengthy exchanges on race and criminal justice reform, where they largely agreed and made sure to name-check key African-American leaders like South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn. But I met Hillary Clinton.
“No Wall Street executive has been prosecuted”.
Here, Sanders said Obama had reached weak agreements with his political adversaries, not that Obama himself was personally weak.
Mr Sanders has focused his campaign nearly exclusively on a call to break up big Wall Street banks and overhaul the current campaign finance system that he says gives wealthy Americans undue influence. I guess just for the fun of it, they want to throw money around’. She dug up votes Sanders took in the 1990s to undermine his claimed anti-interventionist stance, she questioned the depth of his understanding of world affairs, and she tackled his prime foreign policy argument on voting against the Iraq War. Obama and Sanders have had a complicated relationship over the years – in part, a reflection of Sanders’s role as an avatar of the left, and the disappointment that many on the left have felt toward Obama and the compromises he has made.
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Sanders also rejected Clinton’s suggestion that he was not fully supportive of Obama. Last night, Bernie sanders, to keep the momentum going.
