O’Malley reiterated his commitment to expanding on the executive actions issued by President Barack Obama nearly a year ago and extending the Affordable Care Act to cover undocumented immigrants, to sustained applause from the audience.
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Both Clinton and Sanders planned to spend the rest of Saturday campaigning in the Palmetto State. “But I also like time alone”. And she is prepared to change the “strike” system that subjects offenders with prior felonies to harsher sentences.
Cecily Strong played MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in a mock version of the ridiculous Democratic forum that occurred earlier this week on the cable network.
When the issue of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email server came up last month in the first Democratic presidential debate, I – and you, too, I suspect – leaned in closer to the TV. But for the next hour, while peppered with questions from prospective voters, Clinton outlined the way she would go further than the president on the economy and growth for African-Americans.
Unlike her opponents, Clinton took the high road during her interview session by not directly attacking them. In contrast, Sanders acknowledges that he has little experience wooing minority voters as an elected official from a state that’s 95 percent white, though he frequently cites his work as a civil rights activist in the 1960s. I thought that this method of getting to know the candidates was very helpful for the American people, giving the candidates a chance to appear human and be honest to connect with the American people instead of being political automatons that modern politics expect presidential candidates to be nowadays.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You’ve also started to express your differences with – with Hillary Clinton more and more. Clinton responded, “Yes, they do!” At an evening rally in Aiken, he was introduced by Rashad Gains, president of the black caucus of the national Young Democrats.
“Yes, but Secretary Clinton got there just last week”.
Sanders has been under pressure lately as his leads over Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire have shrunk in recent polls.
“It’s not like she’s paddling against a tide”. She also said that guns do not have to be “the only tool” given to law enforcement officers to deal with tough situations. “If she slows down here, and again this is the first test of African-American support, she makes the voters think she’s taking them for granted”. That would be a problem.
Another person who badly needs to get a few momentum in South Carolina, or anywhere, is O’Malley. “She has to maintain levels of excitement – doesn’t mean she has to do anything Herculean”. “His advisers who want him to be harder, or Bernie Sanders, who’s kind of a nice guy”. Clinton did not speak at Winthrop Saturday.
“You just lose the black vote right there!”.
The Vermont senator took a shot at Republican candidate Ben Carson, saying in a quip that brought cheers from the audience, “I don’t know what world he’s living in”.
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Bernie Sanders criticized Hillary Clinton for not not showing “leadership” when there are “difficult circumstances… when it is not necessarily popular to make [those] decisions”, referring to DOMA, Keystone, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
