Martin O’Malley; Jim Webb, a former Navy secretary and United States senator from Virginia, and former governor and senator Lincoln Chafee, the Republican-turned independent-turned Democrat from Rhode Island.
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According to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, the greatest national threat to the U.S.is the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the risk of them falling into the wrong hands. Bernie Sanders of Vermont speaks during the CNN Democratic presidential debate Tuesday in Las Vegas. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who has struggled to make much of an impression with primary voters so far, tried to capitalize on the issue with a proposal to break up big banks.
“Enough of the e-mails!” said an exasperated would-be nominee Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s closest rival in party polls, in response to a moderator’s questioning.
For Clinton, a policy-heavy debate would be a welcome reprieve from the months of focus on her use of personal email and a private server during her four years as secretary of state.
But he made clear that he wasn’t necessarily defending Clinton. But even more important, her demeanor was both relaxed and energetic.
There may have been five candidates on the Democratic debate stage, but all eyes were on Hillary Clinton and her surprising challenger Bernie Sanders on Tuesday night.
The controversy surrounding Clinton’s email practices again burst into public view earlier in August after the inspector general for the USA intelligence community revealed that two of the thousands of emails held by Clinton contained top-secret information. Barack Obama used an impressive nuts-and-bolts operation to overtake Clinton’s favored campaign. Jabs at Clinton for her vote for the Iraq war – still inadequately explained about why this isn’t a reflection on her judgment – and her alleged flip flops on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade treaty and the Keystone Pipeline. “I believe that a no-fly zone in Syria at this time actually, secretary, would be a mistake”, said O’Malley. “He valued my judgment, and I spent a lot of time with him in the Situation Room, going over a few very hard issues”. Sanders stuck to the plan that’s had him surging in the polls but his embracing of the “socialist” label is scary to many.
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Clinton backer who’d traveled to Las Vegas to watch the debate, could barely contain her glee Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” as she assessed Clinton’s performance. “And it’s our job to rein in the excesses of capitalism so that it doesn’t run amok”, she said.
“I think the people are ready for change”, Harper said.
At the very beginning of the debate, Clinton introduced herself as “the granddaughter of a factory worker” to establish her credibility with the middle class. The latest featured familiar aspects, including footage of ISIS fighters, jocular stock music, and ad-hominem attacks on candidates’ personality traits.
“He (Sanders) was going to give immunity to the only industry in America”.
Sanders said he did not subscribe to the capitalist system.
O’Malley, Axelrod told CNN, had a “strong night” but didn’t perform “in such a way that he will catapult up into the mix”.
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Mrs Clinton was flying so high at that point that, when asked whether she wanted to respond to Lincoln Chafee questioning of her credibility, she offered a curt “no”.
