Debate day-after: Sanders raises cash, Clinton camp pleased

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According to the poll, the three other democratic hopefuls received poor scores following the debate. The debate format, she said, helped her “understand what they were about”.

In the alternate reality described at this past Tuesday’s Democratic debate, counteracting climate change and protecting African-Americans from police shootings are the most pressing moral imperatives.

CNN anchor Carol Costello says that if Joe Biden runs for president, “he’ll just be another white person running on the Democratic side”.

“Given that the Republicans are the party out of power and lack a single major issue, they are casting around for domestic problems and global threats to energize their voters and build enough support to win back the White House”, said Linda L. Fowler, a professor of government at Dartmouth who studies political leadership.

“I don’t want to say this in a braggadocious way”, the former reality TV star told “Fox and Friends” on the eve of the Democrats” debate.

While contributors can give a maximum of $2,700 per election to campaigns, they face no such restrictions with super PACs.

“I thought I’d have spent about $20, $25 million dollars up until this point”.

“This debate has been joined”.

The new round of calls this week – from the vice president himself, not simply his top advisers – suggest Biden is finally moving toward announcing a decision.

How is that fair to the other candidates? More than three-quarters of the contributions to her chief rival, Bernie Sanders, were from people who gave less than $200.

Well, then instead of conducting a kabuki campaign where we all discuss legislative proposals that will never come to fruition, the candidates should instead be pushed to talk about what they actually can accomplish.

Perhaps most harmful for Biden, she pointed to ways she would continue Obama’s legacy and emphasized how he trusted her experience on foreign policy even after their bitter 2008 fight. “In order to submit the application, Sanders would have had to declare he was a pacifist and opposed to all wars”. “He seemed flustered and defensive”.

Hillary Clinton and Democratic donors and activists have put pressure on the vice president to say whether he will get into the race, as the clock ticks down toward the first caucus and primary contests early in the new year. A guy with a large, Fox News-viewing audience has taken a few great potshots at Roger Ailes’ propaganda machine, while Trump has seen his viselike grip on the polls finally loosen. Democrats question capitalism itself, saying Wall Street and the superrich are starving the middle class of hope.

While pundits were quick to declare victory for Clinton, several unscientific online polls, focus groups and an impressive post-debate fundraising haul have been used to argue it was Sanders who resonated most with Americans beyond the Beltway.

Sanders remains proud of his opposition to the Patriot Act-still supported by Clinton-which authorized mass surveillance by the National Security Agency. Data analyzed by President Barack Obama’s campaign showed a direct correlation between supporter enthusiasm in the last six weeks before the election and how early local organizing efforts began in their area. “People were attacking him like he is the front-runner”.