U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton leads a campaign rally at the Derry Boys and Girls Club in Derry, New Hampshire February 3, 2016.
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On policy matters, Clinton called Sanders’ proposals “just not achievable”, while Sanders countered that Clinton was willing to settle for less than Americans deserve.
This week’s debate between presidential hopefuls from the US Democratic Party, former Secretary Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders, is instructive on what we should demand to see-and what we do not see at all-in the conversations leading to our own presidential elections in May.
National polls suggest Clinton has a strong lead over Sanders, despite her lagging position in New Hampshire, and her campaign seems confident she will perform better in SC and elsewhere. “I hope he passes that message along to his staff”.
Prior to the debate, NBC News polls reported Sanders led in New Hampshire with 58 percent and Clinton at 38 percent. They seem less interested in Clinton’s pitch as a “progressive who gets things done” than in Sanders’ call to break up big financial institutions and expand social programs as part of a “political revolution”.
The debate started with an antagonistic tone after the Vermont senator levied an attack on Clinton via social media on Wednesday that said she is too moderate to represent Democrats today.
At a town hall hosted by CNN on Wednesday Clinton fumbled a response to questions about $675,000 she was paid to speak at an event for Goldman Sachs, the investment bank.
Sanders, meanwhile, would wallop Trump by a resounding 49% to 39% and beat Cruz by 46% to 42%, Quinnipiac said.
“We looked at it. It turns out to be a disaster”, Sanders said, noting that the system as it stands now is not equipped to deal with modern campaign-finance laws. “It’s great to want to go from point A to point B, sometimes you just can’t make that and I just think Bernie will not be able to implement most of what he says he wants to do”.
In mid-January, Sanders scored his first lead over Clinton in the Iowa caucus, but ultimately lost by the slimmest of margins.
“While Trump, Clinton and Cruz wallow in a negative favourability swamp, by comparison, Rubio and Sanders are rock stars”, Malloy said. “I think we should move forward as quickly as we can”. “The middle class bailed out Wall Street in their time of need”.
There’s a later mention of her “vitriol” but by then I think most readers had gotten the point.
Unless Sanders can build confidence in his ability to handle foreign policy (or convince Democrats that the economic issues which form the centerpiece of his electoral platform are the most pressing facing the country) his efforts to reach the White House may well be in trouble.
“A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS”, Clinton fired back. “We have to look at the threats that we face right now”.
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More than all of that, of course, is the fact that Bernie Sanders is the first candidate in the history of the United States presidential race to have raised money from more than three million different, individual donors – a enormous achievement by any standard, and one that tells its own story.
