Political journalists and pundits were quick to pounce on an interview published Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal, which they said showed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had changed his stance on the investigations into his opponent Hillary Clinton’s emails.
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“You get 12 seconds to say these things”, Sanders told the Journal of his debate exchange on Clinton’s e-mails.
The National Bar Association’s CLE Civil Rights Commemoration Tour goes from November 30 to December 1 and will include tour sites and events planned in Selma, Montgomery and Tuskegee.
“And I want to make sure that I can look into the eyes of any middle-class American and say, ‘This will help raise your wages.’ And I concluded I could not”. A wild card remains in how Sanders chooses to address Clinton’s use of a personal email system while serving as secretary of state.
There are “valid questions” to be asked regarding whether Clinton violated public-records requests or compromised classified information by using an unsecured email system, Sanders said, adding that the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s email arrangement should “proceed unimpeded”. Also in the interview, he suggested Clinton’s changes on policy issues “does speak to the character of a person” – after previously saying he would focus on policy only when knocking Clinton’s flip flops.
“At 71 percent support of likely voters, a choice that is “solid” among more than 7 in 10 of those supporters, and a 79/10 favorable/unfavorable rating, South Carolina is now Clinton country”, Huffmon said.
The remark drew immediate attention – including from the Clinton campaign – as a potential major shift for Sanders, who has said he would not attack Clinton personally. The same poll conducted in September survey had Sanders leading Clinton 43 percent to 36 percent there.
Click for more from The Wall Street Journal. Less than a month ago, Bernie Sanders scolded CNN’s debate panel for asking about Hillary Clinton’s “damn e-mails”.
They succeeded in seeing Clinton’s polling numbers begin to fall and everyone from the likes of Andrea Mitchell to anyone on FOX news appeared to take glee in reporting bad news about her campaign.
A Monmouth University poll in October found that 87 percent of blacks view Clinton favorably, compared to just 42 percent for Sanders.
“You know what, we need to go after that too, don’t you think, yeah, it’s usurious”, Clinton answered.
“They are determined to do what they can to try to prevent this from happening to any other family, and so am I”, Clinton said at the Iowa meeting.
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The atmosphere of the first debate inspired a number of commentators to declare the Democratic primary more “grown-up” and “substantive” than the Republican race.
