Bernie Sanders, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Friday, just days before the primary in New Hampshire, where Sanders already leads Clinton by 30 points. Mr Sanders responded that Ms. Clinton was in thrall to vested interests evidenced by the large scale contributions to her campaign from Wall Street banks, drug companies and other special interests and that she would not be able to achieve real change.
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Clinton had been asked on Wednesday why she accepted $675,000 for three speeches from the financial firm Goldman Sachs. He’s cited her ties to Wall Street and a well-funded super PAC as evidence of her shortcomings as a true liberal champion. “Our campaign, up to now, has shown that we can create an enormous amount of enthusiasm from working people, from young people, who will get involved in the political process”.
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton began their post-debate campaigns Friday by re-hitting major themes and continuing the argument over who would be the best chief executive. While one of the debate’s most intense confrontations arguably stemmed from Clinton’s accusation that Sanders’ campaign was engaged in an “artful smear” of Clinton’s relationship with Wall Street, both agreed to avoid dwelling on media scandals involving the two candidates.
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton at the CNN Democratic Debate at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, Tuesday, October 13, 2015.
The latest debate offered fresh evidence of how the race for the nomination, once considered a sure bet for Clinton, has tightened in recent weeks.
Howard Dean isn’t a very good surrogate for Hillary Clinton.
Clinton won the first victory last Monday night with success in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.
For the Republicans, despite losing the Iowa caucuses, Trump still holds his lead over the rest of the pack nationally with 31 percent. But when “a Wall Street executive destroys the economy” and pays a $5 billion settlement, he has no criminal record. “It is undermining American democracy and it is allowing Congress to represent wealthy campaign contributors and not the working families of this country”. “A progressive is someone who makes progress”, she said.
“A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS”, Clinton said. But, in the so-called money primary, Sanders has proven to be a formidable foe and even outraised Clinton $20 million to $25 million in the month of January.
When asked whether an FBI investigation into her private email server would cause problems for the former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said she was “100 percent confident” it would not. “We have to look at the threats that we face right now”. Clinton came to the city two years later as First Lady.
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Most voters would still place money on Clinton securing the Democratic nomination, but with Sanders’ momentum, they would perhaps not wager quite as much.
