“I am very proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a super PAC, who’s not raising huge sums from Wall Street and special interests”, he said.
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While it is true Sanders voted several times against the Brady Bill, which when first introduced would have imposed a seven-day waiting period, he did vote in favor of an amendment imposing an instant background check, which, because it was 1993, the technology didn’t yet exist.
“The root of that word, progressive, is progress, but I’ve heard Senator Sanders’s comments and it’s really caused me to wonder who’s left in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party”, Clinton said. Her finance director called the numbers “a very loud wake-up call”.
One might say the tension between presidential candidate Donald Trump and Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly was contrasted starkly when MSNBC moderator Rachel Maddow hugged Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton after the debate was over.
Since arriving in New Hampshire after escaping with the narrowest of wins in Monday’s Iowa caucus, Clinton has alternated between tamping down expectations and trying to keep her supporters buoyed. There are thousands of veterans, over 100,000 veterans living in the state of New Hampshire.
New Hampshire is 95 per cent white, with blacks, Asians and Latinos combined making up the rest.
“He’s honest, dependable, loyal, relatively amusing”, she told CBS as the younger Bush beamed.
For his part, Trump continued to lead on the Republican side, according to Quinnipiac.
Their face-off at a debate Thursday night was charged with all of the anger, exasperation, gender conflict and anti- establishment warfare that’s been under the surface for months while they were publicly insisting they would stick to campaigning on ideas rather than personal attacks.
The pair tangled again and again, arguing over who was worthy of being considered the most progressive, the preferred term among some Democrats for “liberal”.
And she attacked Sanders’ own credentials as a progressive, bringing up his votes against the 1993 Brady bill that mandated federal background checks on gun purchases and his 2005 vote for a bill to protect gun manufacturers and dealers from lawsuits. “And enough is enough”.
The Senator from Vermont, a State that borders New Hampshire, said Ms. Clinton represented the “establishment” and he represented the “ordinary Americans”, a foggy categorisation that has defined the fault lines in both parties in the current election season.
Bernie Sanders’ campaign is laying the groundwork for what could be a challenge to the results of the Iowa caucuses, according to Politico. Wall Street firms were no different, she claimed, than all those other audiences that had hired her to speak – “heart doctors” and the “American Camping Association” and “auto dealers”.
“That is what power is about, that is what corruption is about”, he said. However, his lack of dedicated foreign policies has been his biggest shortcoming this election, and his only defense when asked about foreign policy is that he voted against Iraq.
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“A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS”, she said. “We have to look at the threats we face right now”. They’re not running them against Senator Sanders.
