The Democratic debate rounded up on Paris attacks, so it was expected for Hillary Clinton to approach an offensive speech and consolidate her status as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, says The Washington Post, but her tone was too defensive, giving Sanders and even O’Malley a chance to strike back.
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The Vermont senator stuck to his line that he wasn’t interested in Clinton’s emails, after appearing more combative in recent interviews, but Clinton alluded to the second debate’s more combative tone in her closing remarks. Marco Rubio and other Republican candidates as unnecessarily offensive to American Muslims. It was repealed in 1999 when Bill Clinton was in office.
During the event, he said he had helped write Obama’s health care law. “But I don’t think that changed her position one iota”. “I think we’re at war with jihadists”.
“We have got to end the War on Drugs”.
Citing statistics about the high probability black males in America face of ending up in the criminal justice system, and the $80 billion price tag that comes with incarceration in the USA, Sanders called for judicial reform, for increasing the accountability of police officers who use excessive force and argued for the decriminalization of marijuana.
“I don’t understand it”, the Florida lawmaker continued.
At Simpson College, Sanders also said the Paris attacks showed that the United States can’t address the crisis of raging extremism on its own. “Over more than a year now we’ve conducted thousands of air-strikes”.
And Fleming added that he didn’t see any break-out moments or major gaffs from the candidates Saturday night. Pathetic group talking nonsense for two hours.
Watch Hillary Clinton’s exchange with Sanders about working with Wall Street below.
“I was left a little lacking after the first debate”, said Ames resident and supporter Susan McNicholl.
Foreign policy was the primary focus of Saturday night’s Democratic presidential debate in Iowa.
“This election is not only about electing a president, it’s also about choosing our next commander-in-chief”, Mrs Clinton said.
Clinton responded: “It is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react”. And this debate was a slam dunk for Clinton, because at a time when national security experience is suddenly at a premium, she’s the Democrats’ gold standard. Separately, Fergus Cullen, a former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party who isn’t supporting Cruz, said: “I suspect once [Donald] Trump goes down, people like me will have Cruz to deal with”.
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“We are going to be able to defeat ISIS”, Gov. O’Malley predicted. “We’re going to war with extremists”.
