With the positions being known and the candidates ready to take their spots on the stage, the first Democratic presidential debate is ready to take place tonight. “Their guess about where Hillary Clinton will stand the next time the political winds shift is as good as anyone else’s”. Clinton still has the most funding of any of the Democratic candidates, but Sanders almost surpassed her in donations in the third quarter.Bernie Sanders: Sanders has climbed steadily in the national polls from his July 15 percent to 24 percent today.
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Mr Obama’s comments paved the way for Ms Clinton’s rivals to attack her judgement on her email habits while Secretary of State, at a crucial moment for her campaign.
Clinton is still fighting back against inquiries into her use of a private e-mail server while serving as U.S. Secretary of State.
LAS VEGAS – Hillary Clinton made a surprise stop the night before the first Democratic debate, rallying with union workers outside the Trump Hotel on the strip. “That means saying no to Donald Trump”, Clinton said, the Las Vegas Sun reported. Active in the stage for over eighty years, the labor group has yet to endorse in the 2016 primaries. In spite of a barrage of negative press and a few slippage in the polls, she is still comfortably ahead of the Democratic field in every aspect that matters.
Indeed, Clinton has increasingly moved to the left on domestic policy since announcing her campaign this spring, including voicing opposition to the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canadian oil fields to Gulf Coast refineries and support for expansive gun control legislation. But Sanders has pulled close to her in polls in Iowa, whose caucuses lead off the state-by-state nominating contests next year, and leads in New Hampshire, which holds the first-in-the-nation presidential primary. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley appeared at a similar rally in August, and has been in regular contact with the union ever since, according to his campaign.
Many pundits see this as a chance for the lesser profile names to let people know what they’re about. He doesn’t look like the polished politician we’ve become used to seeing in the race for president. He has mounted a push for the party to expand the number, even encouraging protests in front of Democratic Party headquarters. Will his absence prove to be “addition by subtraction”? “I do think that people take that more seriously”. This fight has just begun.
Sanders also told his aids that they shouldn’t bother to create any sort of mock debate scenario for him, reported Politico. “The hope would be that the Democratic debate engages the participation and attention that the Republican debate was able to do”. Will any candidates feel pressured to match Trump’s bravado? Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and former Senator and Navy Secretary James Webb of Virginia.
He was consistently opposed to the Iraq War, but he also has more conservative views.
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Vice President Joe Biden could join the debate at the last minute, though he is unlikely to do so. Wisniewski is a national delegate so he will get a vote.
