“She has been saying lately that she thinks that I am, quote-unquote, not qualified to be president”. “I don’t believe that she is qualified if she is, through her super PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in special-interest funds”.
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Rather than focusing on the positions she has held in public service, Sanders has been ticking off a list of policy positions he disagrees with, including her vote for the Iraq War and various trade agreements.
Bernie Sanders doubled down Thursday on his criticism that Hillary Clinton is “not qualified” to be President, even as Clinton sought to avoid escalating the most heated dispute yet in their increasingly bitter Democratic primary contest.
The bad blood between Democratic White House rivals Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton continued to spill over Thursday, following the Vermont senator’s contention that the former first lady is “unqualified” for the presidency. Bernie Sanders, who in an interview with the New York Daily News said he thought the subway still used tokens. Clinton clocked in at 434,168 votes or 43.2 percent, according to one report. Meantime, he said, “I would hope to see (Sanders) compete and continue to campaign”.
Sanders was asked how he would determine what constituted an “illegal” settlement and was largely unable to articulate the distinction between lawful Israeli settlements and land-grabs he says should be returned to the Palestinians.
“He doesn’t know the pain my family has been going through since December 14, 2012”, she said. I don’t know if the fed has it but I think that the administration can have it. Talking for more than a year doing things that he obviously hadn’t really studied or understood and that does raise a lot of questions.
To be fair, Clinton never explicitly said Sanders was “not qualified” to be president.
“It’s kind of a silly thing to say”, said the former NY senator. His reaction thrust a debate about the 1990s into the center of his wife’s presidential campaign, one that has focused heavily on issues of race and criminal justice.
He said he will vote for Clinton if she wins the nomination.
Clinton aides and supporters pushed back aggressively.
In addition to a trove of delegates NY is an important symbolic contest.
Her remarks came hours after losing to Sanders in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary.
Susan Watts/New York Daily News Jillian Soto, sister of Newtown shooting victim Victoria Soto, and Sandy Phillips, mother of Aurora movie theater shooting victim Jessica Ghawi, announce their support for Hillary Clinton outside City Hall.
Sanders told a crowd of more than 10,000 people in Philadelphia on Wednesday that Clinton has been saying that he’s “not qualified to be president”. “I believe we have an excellent chance to win NY”. Measured by the share of available delegates he’s won (nearly two-fifths, including super delegates), Sanders also seems likely to outshine all these predecessors except McGovern, who captured a majority and the nomination.
Sanders needs to win an estimated 56 percent of the remaining delegates nationwide to overtake Clinton.
New York was the first state after Newtown to enact strict new gun laws, with the SAFE Act of 2013 that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called the “toughest” law in the U.S. Statewide, there’s greater support for gun control than there nationally, and despite higher levels upstate, gun ownership has been declining in New York City and the suburbs, where most people live, said Spitzer. But on Thursday, the Democratic front-runner appeared to have adopted a new strategy: Mollify him, unify the party, and defeat him later.
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New York Assemblyman Luis Sepúlveda, whose district is located in the Bronx, is supporting Sanders.
