The Wall Street Journal comment was also seen as a sign that the Democratic candidate was taking the gloves off against the front-runner and preparing to assail her on emails.
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Bernie Sanders told former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, “The American people are sick and exhausted of hearing about your damn emails”. Clinton used those remarks at campaign events last month to swipe at Sanders. “I believe that when you have three out of four major banks today that are bigger now than they were when we bailed them out because they were too big to fail, I think you’ve got to break them up and we have to bring back Glass-Steagall legislation, Hillary Clinton does not hold that view”, said Sanders. “The middle class and working class in this country have a right to be angry, working longer hours for lower wages while nearly all the wealth is going to the top”. “I did not say, ‘End the investigation, ‘” he said.
Sen. Sanders of Vermont, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, also said the federal investigation of the security surrounding Mrs. Clinton’s private email account is appropriate.
When asked which candidate they favored in the state’s February 27 primary, 71 percent said Clinton, compared with 15 percent for Sanders and 2 percent for former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.
The one area where Hillary Clinton has been able to present herself as further to the left of her Democratic primary rival is guns. These are all “valid questions”, Sanders said.
The string of developments has a few wondering if Sanders misplayed the moment at the debate and if he should have taken a more confrontational tone, one that would have kept the topic alive in the weeks after.
“I think we can manage it, and I don’t think there should be any unintended consequences to job creation”, Ms Clinton said at another campaign stop at Grinnell College. The latest survey was taken from October 29 to November 4 – after Mr. Biden announced he would not be running for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent noted the comment on his blog, The Plum Line, on Thursday morning, under the headline “Bernie Sanders goes hard at Hillary Clinton”.
Clinton’s advantage was especially strong with African-American voters. “The other candidates have different positions, and I intend to point out those differences and let the people decide, but I have a tremendous amount of respect for Secretary Clinton and for Sen. Before we come together as a nation?”
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Despite her “wholehearted support” for the Second Amendment in the 2008 primary, “Clinton is embracing the Democrat Party’s shift to the extreme left on the Second Amendment with talk of a national gun buyback program and unilateral executive action”, said the Republican National Committee’s Fred Brown.
