Watch Lincoln Chafee Give The Most weird Answer Of The Debate
Clinton said she never had a position on the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline before she said last month that she would oppose it.
Clinton has said her email server in her New York State home was used for convenience and not to skirt transparency laws. The problem for Sanders: Democratic voters disproportionately live in cities. Underdogs O’Malley, Webb and Chafee were looking to gain any traction in polls.
Chafee again highlights his background as a mayor, senator and governor.
The candidates tried to draw a distinction with the two Republican debates, where candidates took a tougher stance on immigration and spent more time discussing social issues like abortion and gay marriage. “You didn’t hear anyone denigrate women” or make racist comments or speak ill of another American “because of their religious belief”.
He also increased spending on roads and capital projects and succeeded, after many years of failed attempts, in increasing the state’s gas tax to pay for those improvements. He makes a fundraising plea for $30 a piece to continue the revolution. The U.S.is “standing but not running”. She said the law prevented more than 2 million prohibited purchases of firearms. “I can remember as a young mother having a baby wake up sick” and having to be in court the next day, in a direct appeal to women.
Sanders comes from one of the whitest states in the nation.
“Who knows, maybe a star will be born (unlikely)”, Trump wrote shortly before the debate began. She would also build on his successes, including on health care.
“Congress does not regulate Wall Street”. Sanders is pressed on his past vote against increasing guest workers. “No, I don’t”, he said.
The self-proclaimed Democratic socialist says all three nations are examples of places that provide for working people.
“Nobody does, Senator Sanders”, Clinton interjected.
Democratic presidental candidate Hillary Clinton defends her “political identity” during the first Democratic debate on CNN. “We need to stand up and say enough of that”.
O’Malley made the pitch Tuesday night that he could do better than all the promises made by Vermont Sen. “We need to combat institutional racism from top to bottom”.
“We have work to do. Let’s talk about the real issues facing America”. “This committee is basically an arm” of the Republican National Committee.
Sanders called the Iraq war “the worst foreign policy decision in the history of this country” and said it raised questions about Clinton’s judgment.
David Axelrod, CNN senior political commentator and the chief strategist for the Obama campaign that trounced Clinton in 2008, said she did “very well” and that her campaign was likely “thrilled with the performance”.
He says he supported US force in 2001 against the Taliban in Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks.
But the energy on the issue came from Sanders and O’Malley, who called for a fundamental breakup of giant USA banks – a position at odds with Clinton but sure to resonate with many Democrats. He says the USA has more people in jail than China – and a disproportionate number of them are minorities. He calls for a coalition of Arab countries to step up.
[Hillary Clinton is the new standard-bearer for gun control.
Clinton criticized his remark in the debate that the United States should model its economy after European countries such as Denmark, Sweden and Norway. “This was a broad and complicated bill, ” he said.
Clinton holds a commanding lead nationally despite Sanders’ strong performance in the early states. Clinton shot back that she voted yes on the Brady bill. “Everyone else has to be accountable but not the gun manufacturers, ” said Clinton. He responded, “Black lives matter”. Q: You don’t consider yourself a capitalist? “I’ve been very consistent throughout the course of my entire life, ” she says. A smiling Clinton reached over to shake his hand and said, “Thank you”. “I’m a progressive-but I like to get things done”, Clinton answered to cheers. His second big issue is criminal justice reform.
O’Malley warned of a deep crisis of “economic injustice that threatens to tear our country apart”.
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