Last week, the Caucus’ chairman, Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., also endorsed Clinton in an op-ed penned on TheGrio.com, a Black news site.
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Hillary Clinton: “I will go anywhere, to meet with anyone, at any time to find common ground”.
“I don’t want to see the Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act, and I don’t want to see us start over again with a contentious debate”, Clinton said.
Holder, who stepped down from the Justice Department previous year, served with Clinton as part of President Obama’s cabinet.
Clinton rapped Sanders, the Vermont senator, for voting repeatedly with the National Rifle Association, and then welcomed his weekend reversal of position to support legislation that would deny gun manufacturers legal immunity.
Hours before the debate, Sanders released a plan to raise income taxes across the board, substantially more on high earners, to pay for a a universal health care plan that includes an expansion of Medicare.
The third participant in the debate, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, tried persistently to insert himself into the conversation. “I’m going to focus on issues facing the American people, not Bill Clinton’s personal issues”, Sanders said. Sanders and Clinton, now neck-and-neck in early voting states, tangled over health care policy, taxes and Wall Street reform. “Look, at the end of the day, Secretary Clinton and I respect enormously the work that President Obama has done. He even, in 2011, publicly sought someone to run in a primary against President Obama”. Barack Obama and I are friends. Gun control has emerged as a central theme in the race, with Clinton citing the issue as one of the major differences between the candidates. “We’re going to go forward”, Sanders said.
Hillary Clinton probably wishes Google users were searching for something different about her after Sunday’s Democratic Presidential debate.
Sanders’ strategy aims to capitalize on strong finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire to propel him in the two remaining contests in February: Nevada and SC.
Clinton made her pitch in Toledo, Iowa, imploring voters to pay careful attention to what is possible – and what is not – as they decide whether to support her or Sanders’ bid.
Overall, the tone of the debate was considerably more heated than the past three face-offs in the Democratic primary. But Clinton has the backing of most of Obama’s close-knit political operation, as well as many senior administration officials, offering the clearest indication of the president’s own views. I think what I have been trying to do, and the point that I made last night, was I can’t walk down the street, as you well know, without media saying, you know, criticize Hillary Clinton, say something bad about Hillary Clinton.
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Lerer reported from Charleston, South Carolina.
