“We’re going to emphasize education, jobs and housing”, said Clinton, who was endorsed earlier in the day by the political action committee of the Congressional Black Caucus.
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We will turn to Shields and Brooks for full analysis of the race on both sides and the Democratic debate later in the program.
After Clinton responded to a question by saying, “once I’m in the White House”, he began his next answer by saying, “Secretary Clinton, you’re not in the White House yet”, drawing some murmurs and jeers.
“Well, I know journalists have asked who you do listen to on foreign policy and we have yet to know who that is”, Clinton pointed out, to which Sanders fired back, “Well it ain’t Henry Kissinger, that’s for sure”.
Bernie Sanders participatig in the PBS NewsHour Democratic presidential candidate debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Feb. 11, 2016. Sanders trailed Clinton in the CBS News poll by 22 points last month.
Prominent black leaders echoed the theme – an effort to use the first African-American president as a wedge between Mr Sanders and black voters.
Ms. Clinton, pointing out that Mr. Obama had to fight tooth-and-nail even for relatively centrist solutions such as the Affordable Care Act, draws the lesson that the next president must have a strong sense of practicality and realism; big rallies can not wish away the complex politics of Congress. Mr. Sanders, by contrast, claims that Mr. Obama had insufficient revolutionary zeal.
Bernie Sanders is earning huge praise for a series of ads painting him as an advocate for the voiceless, part of a strategy that could help the Vermont Senator achieve a breakthrough with a very important demographic.
But Clinton leads in SC with a large advantage among African Americans, who make up a a majority of Democratic voters in the state. “I do not expect it from someone seeking the Democratic nomination”, Clinton said. “And I just couldn’t disagree more with those kinds of comments”. This is the right campaign if you believe this country can be better than it was.
Both candidates sought to appeal to black voters Friday.
Still, many Black pundits have expressed disappointment over Sanders’ history of favoring a strictly class-based analysis over race, though pressure from activists associated with the Black Lives Matter movement has succeeded in shifting both his positions and rhetoric.
Mr Sanders wants to “undo” Mr Obama’s accomplishments, said PAC chairman and congressman Gregory Meeks, pointing to Mr Sanders’ past criticism of the president and his 2011 suggestion that Democrats should mount a primary challenge to Mr Obama.
She added that he signed his 1994 crime Bill that created dozens of capital crimes, and pulled the social security net from under poor families to “end welfare as we know it” in 1996. But, she said, that’s not all she’s for. The intersection of Wall Street and income inequality has hit Democratic voters, especially young voters, especially voters in un-diverse Iowa and New Hampshire, exactly where they live.
So now Clinton seems to have found a message, if not a single message, of her own, for which Sanders has already fashioned his own singular reply: “One of us ran against President Obama”.
“You once had a pension”, Sanders lamented.
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Hours later at the Democratic Dinner, Clinton took the stage first – congratulating Coloradans on the Broncos Super Bowl win.
