Hillary Clinton made a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night, and the host split the difference between Stephen Colbert’s crisp political conversations and Jimmy Fallon’s non-stop goofball joking. Practically nobody watched former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, though more paid attention to Vermont Sen.
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There may be disagreement over who should decide who gets a firearm, but “we all agree a insane person shouldn’t have a gun”, he said.
South Carolina has the potential to play a key role in the Democratic nominating process.
Sanders expanded on his proposal in a brief post-debate interview with MSNBC host Chris Matthews. Hillary Clinton canvassed for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and was a member of the College Republicans before somewhat converting at Wellesley. As the first contest in the South, it provides a test of the abilities of the candidates to connect with African American voters, who are expected to account for more than half the primary electorate.
The candidates are likely to be asked about the Keystone pipeline, a project the entire field opposes that President Barack Obama rejected earlier on Friday.
“He would run again”, Hillary Clinton said. I did not say, ‘End the investigation.’ That’s silly….
She spoke at length about the death penalty, which both O’Malley and Sanders are against.
Maddow pressed him about the subject, asking whether he even had a chance to win his party’s nomination when he lags so far behind Sanders and Clinton in the polls.
“I miss the fact that when I’m in a vehicle or at home, there are not all kinds of buzzes and noises going off making me a nervous wreck”, Sanders said. I’m a lifelong Democrat. I’m not a former independent. “I don’t think the answer to this problem is to declare that all Republicans are our enemies”. I believe in the party of Franklin Roosevelt, the party of John F. Kennedy.
With the format forbidding the candidates from speaking with each other, the forum was substantive on policy matters but lacked the gaffes, sparks and humdingers of the regular presidential debates.
The Clinton family has a long relationship with minority voters.
After showing a picture of Bill and Hillary Clinton as a young couple, Maddow asked the former first lady if she had the opportunity would she tell that young Hillary Clinton to go first and run for elected office before Bill.
His aides insist that that he has not made a dramatic shift to draw sharper contrasts with Clinton. Sanders. I have a great deal of respect for Secretary Clinton. She said capital punishment was appropriate in a few extreme cases, like the Boston Marathon bombing or the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina last June.
Sanders is trying to draw clearer distinctions between his liberal record and what he views as Clinton’s flip-flops on major issues, including gay rights, the environment and trade, the Boston Globe noted.
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The forum provided an important platform for the candidates to court African-American voters, who make up more than half of Democratic primary voters in South Carolina.
