CNN’s first Democratic presidential primary debate on Tuesday averaged 15.3 million viewers, well above expectations and the sixth-highest rated nonsports event ever on cable. Minutes after last night’s most raucous moment, when Sanders refused to attack Clinton over her ongoing email troubles – “The American people are sick and exhausted of hearing about your damn emails” – his team sent out an email blast to supporters asking for a $23.81 contribution.
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President Obama also lost tonight. “If you look at the Republican versus the Democrats when it comes to economic policy, there is no comparison”. The question is whether the party is now effectively writing off those areas, so Clinton has little to lose by deliberately courting pro-gun control voters. We have 27 million people living in poverty.
By contrast Hillary seems so strong and true: “It’s time the entire country stood up to the NRA”.
“They don’t mind having big government interference with a war on women’s right to choose”, she exclaimed loudly during the debate.
Soon after, Don Lemon, brought up an issue that has plagued America for centuries and constantly tripped candidates up on the campaign trail: race. (AP Photo/John Locher) Sen.
From the opening introductions in Las Vegas, while other candidates presented their bios, Bernie Sanders struck a familiar theme.
The Democratic front-runner and members of her staff have, to this point, stressed a desire to give Biden time and space to make a decision, as he continues to grieve over the death of his son, Beau, earlier this year.
Moderator Anderson Cooper didn’t mess around when he began discussing each candidate’s electability. It was frontrunner Hillary Clinton, so often seen as the inevitable nominee, her pesky populist challenger, and a very small handful of other guys whom few could name. Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton was the choice for 13 percent of voters. Instead, he dismissed the controversy as trivial, drawing an ovation from the crowd and shoving the spotlight away from Clinton’s most profound political weakness. Bernie Sanders drew applause when he noted, “As someone who has taken on probably every special interest that there is in Washington, I would lump Wall Street and the pharmaceutical industry at the top of my life of people who do not like me”.
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Sanders put forward passionate arguments for reducing income inequality, insisting he is not a part of the “casino capitalist” system.
