And he made it clear he’s not a fan of Henry Kissinger.
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But for now, Trump and Sanders have raised the banner of the anti-establishment, of those who feel the system is rigged against them and who believe there would be little difference to them in a government led by President Hillary Clinton or President Jeb Bush. “He does not support, the way I do, building on the progress the president has made”.
After splitting the first two states with Sanders, Clinton also deepened her assertion that her unexpectedly strong rival was energizing voters with promises “that can not be kept”.
In interviews with CNN following Thursday night’s faceoff, representatives from both campaigns accused the other side of mudslinging and negative campaigning even as, in the same breath, they continued to tout the Democratic primary as a model of good behavior when compared to that of the Republicans.
She says Millennials of her generation are smarter than that, understanding that a female will eventually be elected president but Clinton is not how to get there. “I was not that candidate”, the socialist Vermont senator responded. Sanders has held just nine traditional fundraisers since the beginning of his presidential campaign, spokesman Michael Briggs said.
“If you’re having Medicare for all single payer, you have to level with people what you will have with the process”, Clinton said. And he criticized the Dodd-Frank financial reforms.
“The use of the term “low blow” or ‘artful smear, ‘ both were applied to the aftermath of a substantive discussion, which the Republicans have not engaged in in any of their debates”, she said.
With the Democratic race heading to Nevada and SC, the candidates sought to appeal to the broader Democratic base that includes African-Americans, Hispanics and women.
Clinton’s challenges appealing to women voters came under the spotlight. Sanders, meantime, was relentlessly on his primary message that economic inequality was the heart of America’s problems. Hillary continues to get the better of Sanders in that suck-up contest. And at some point, if Clinton hones in on Sanders’ lack of specifics, she may gain traction with a wider audience.
I look forward to seeing what effect a campaign shake-up will have.
Overall, the debate highlighted anew the fundamental faultline between the two candidates for the Democratic nomination, with Sanders standing his ground on behalf of a big and bold agenda that has energised progressives across the United States and Clinton expressing her support for many of her rival’s goals but arguing that she has the preparation to make real progress in a divided country.
In Sanders’ speeches, and comments in the last five televised debates, his foreign policy views are vague, but not all that different from those of a Democratic electorate that is skeptical about U.S. military power and insistent that other countries do more fighting.
“And we can no longer continue to sweep it under the rug”, Sanders said.
Sanders has also been endorsed in recent weeks by ex-NAACP leader Ben Jealous and author Ta-Nehisi Coates. In their opening statements, both Clinton and Sanders nodded to issues that concern African-American voters.
But addressing a faith forum at conservative Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, on Friday, Rubio said “I don’t support drafting women and forcing them to be combat soldiers”.
That fundraising helped Sanders outraise Clinton in January and set him up to do so again this month.
When Clinton tried to distinguish herself by saying she’ll have the political capital to pass her plans “once I’m in the White House”, Sanders shot back, “Secretary Clinton, you’re not in the White House yet”.
Passive-aggressive as it was, it showed Sanders’ increasing willingness to mix it up with Clinton.
Clinton was gently dismissive of Albright’s comments at Thursday’s debate, sticking to her credo that women are free to back her or not. She is more hawkish than Obama, but unlike some Republicans she is not looking for a ground war anywhere.
But Clinton was put on the spot by the controversy unleashed by two high-profile backers, the feminist icon Gloria Steinem and another former secretary of state, Madeleine Albright. “I should have said something”, he told his chief strategist Tad Devine as they were doing their half-day of debate prep on Thursday in Milwaukee.
Sanders then blasted Clinton for getting advice from Henry Kissinger, a bugbear on the left.
The Minnesota Democrat effusively praised Lewis, saying, “If he needs a kidney, he should ask me”.
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“Bernie Sanders talks in “we” all the time”. In New Hampshire, Clinton lost with every age demographic except 65 years and older.
