“I have been on the forefront of dealing with climate change, starting in 2009, when President Obama and I crashed a meeting with the Chinese and got them to sign up to the first worldwide agreement to combat climate change that they’d ever joined”, she said.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont succeeded in clearly – and loudly – laying out his populist crusade against inequality, rapacious billionaires and “casino capitalism”. He had the best line of the night when he interrupted the back-and-forth between Cooper and Clinton regarding her email controversy.
Many analysts – including Calbuzz – concluded that there was only one candidate in the Democrats’ debate who looked and sounded like a potential president of the United States.
During the Democratic Presidential debate on CNN, Hillary Clinton tried to out-hate Sen.
Lots of left-liberal, “progressive”, and anti-Establishment Democrats who love Bernie Sanders have been screaming bloody murder because, as they see it, Bernie was declared the victor of the Democrats’ first debate in focus groups and polls but Hillary Clinton was deemed the victor by pundits and commentators of the mainstream media. Sanders says that his plan to raise the cap on payroll tax will strengthen Social Security for years to come, but he failed to mention that individuals in a higher income bracket who would begin to pay more to keep the system afloat would not see any additional benefits, which is counter to historical precedent.
She mostly ignored her lesser-known rivals: Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee.
Shortly later, Cooper asked Sanders: “You don’t consider yourself a capitalist, though?” “No”, she said. “Not at all”. Moreover, Secretary Clinton handled the flip flopping charge by pointing out that men and women change their views over time and particularly when receiving more information.
At the end of the night, the Democratic debate ultimately became a duel between Clinton and Sanders, two frontrunners with starkly different political backgrounds.
As the crowd roared with approval Mrs Clinton smiled broadly and shook his hand, saying: “Thank you, Bernie”. By which Wall Street’s greed and recklessness wrecked this economy?
“I have not observed that”, Earnest said.
At a minimum, Clinton needed to hold her own and provide as little fresh ammunition as possible to her critics.
At a nature preserve, Clinton spoke to a nighttime audience that included many African Americans and Hispanics – key constituencies for the former secretary of state and former New York senator.
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All of the candidates and their campaigns approached the debate as an introduction of sorts. “Sanders’ responses were often heavy on identifying problems while sometimes light on providing specific solutions”, said communication professor from the University of Missouri Mitchell McKinney.
