Clinton’s strongest moment came when she stated that if health care was turned back to the states to administer, if she were an Iowan, she would not want Terry Branstad to administer her health care.
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One of Hillary Clinton’s primary contest rivals, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, also spoke at the barbecue, calling her comment about 9/11 an attempt to “mask” her Wall Street ties.
Sanders’ campaign said in response that his single-payer health system would save taxpayers money in the long run because it would eliminate wasteful health spending.
The following day, at the Central Iowa Democrats fall barbecue here, Clinton and her team sought to fend off attacks and questions about what she’d said on stage at the debate.
Clinton put considerable effort into getting the union’s support.
Sanders continued by saying, “six financial institutions today that have assets of 56 percent, equivalent to 56 percent of the GDP” and “issue two-thirds of the credit cards and one-third of the mortgages” must be broken up, before returning to attack Clinton’s donors.
“We are gratified that hundreds of thousands of workers are part of the growing grassroots movement supporting Bernie’s campaign to help working families by raising the minimum wage, providing health care for all and making college affordable”, said Sanders’ spokesman Michael Briggs.
“I wouldn’t use the word offensive, I found them a little bit silly, a bit absurd”, Sanders told Yahoo News’ Katie Couric in an interview. In the four most recent polls of Iowa, Clinton has a 14-32 point lead over Sanders.
Praising what he called Clinton’s “bold, aggressive agenda”, Fallon contended that the former secretary of state “believes strongly that middle class families deserve a raise, not a tax increase”.
The union behind the “Fight for $15” restaurant-worker wage movement endorsed Hillary Clinton for president on Tuesday.
Thomson ReutersU.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters after the 2016 U.S. Democratic presidential candidates debate at Drake University in Des MoinesNEW YORK (Reuters) – USA presidential contender Hillary Clinton on Tuesday won the endorsement of the SEIU labor union, which has about 2 million members, in her quest to win the Democratic nomination for the November 2016 election.
Leaders from the union “collectively agreed that the best choice for our union was to endorse Clinton”, said SEIU worldwide President Mary Kay Henry.
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Though Sanders, a senator from Vermont, has received the support of a few smaller unions, including those that represent nurses and postal workers, the major organizations have been lining up with Clinton, a former senator and secretary of State. This has included coming out against a proposed major new free trade deal with 11 Pacific and Asian nations that President Barack Obama has championed but which most unions deplore.
