And it comes after recent polling showing that Clinton’s numbers have stabilized among Democrats – with her in the lead nationally and in most early-voting states.
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“She was poised, she was passionate and she was in command”, said David Axelrod, the former chief strategist for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign that vanquished Clinton.
However, Lincoln Chafee got less airtime Tuesday than any Republican who is still in the race – despite competing with only four instead of 10 other candidates.
Biden is keenly aware that any true opening for him to run and win stems directly from Clinton’s perceived weakness as a front-runner.
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Vice President Joe Biden arrives for the White House Build America Investment Initiative roundtable, …
During his formal remarks to group, the 72-year-old vice president, who spent about half of his life in the U.S. Senate, addressed one of the biggest topics of Tuesday’s debate: how to rein in Wall Street.
While the figure marked record viewership for a Democratic primary debate, it was a far cry from the 24 million people who tuned in to Fox News on August 6 for the first Republican clash of the cycle, featuring the party’s frontrunner Donald Trump and nine challengers.
“I think the secretary is right, and that is that the American people are sick and exhausted of hearing about your damn emails”, he said. Asked about her history of shifting positions and whether she would “say anything to get elected”, Clinton turned the question back to her biography.
From the outset, Clinton was pressed to defend her changing stances on various issues – from the Pacific Rim trade deal to same-sex marriage – and came out from the tough questioning with a strong one-liner that very much fits the frame of her campaign: “I’m a progressive”.
Trump said that showed a weakness. “That’s an indication of how someone will perform in the future, and that’s what’s important”. “But she is very proud to have served President Obama”. He sought to point out areas where he supported more restrictions on guns and defended a vote to provide immunity to gun manufacturers, saying it had been a “large and complicated bill”.
Biden still doesn’t have an answer for number one – why he wants to be president and how he would be different than credible options who have already been running hard for months. “It wasn’t that complicated to me”. Information crossing that server was of national security interest, for sure.
Behind the scenes, her team was too. “I wanted to go off so badly but I thought it wouldn’t sound nice if I refused to watch a potential opponent’s debate”.
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After losing his son, and presumed political heir, Beau Biden, earlier this year to brain cancer, Biden has been getting plenty of space from fellow Democrats, but there are signs of waning patience. The next Democratic debate will be held November 14 in Iowa.
