Bernie Sanders Makes Appeal to Black Voters at Forum

The South Carolina Democratic forum is one of the best events of the year, and Bernie Sanders is shining in this format.

Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Rodham Clinton jockeyed Saturday for the support of key South Carolina Democratic voting blocs that anchored President Barack Obama’s twice-victorious national coalition.

Each candidate was pressed on questions customized to hit their potential weak spots.

Mr Sanders, who is known for despising conversation about much other than policy on the campaign trail, cracked a joke, asking Ms Maddox if she was about to ask how many pairs of underwear he owns when she warned him about the forthcoming round. Clinton is counting on South Carolina as a firewall with polls showing Sanders more competitive in Iowa and New Hampshire which lead off the nominating process.

“I think that nearly all of their agenda can get done”, O’Malley said of the movement.

This was the issue that had single-handedly transformed Clinton from untouchable to under fire in her bid for the Democratic nomination.

Maddow cited financial support she’s gotten from Wall Street executives, including paid speeches for Goldman Sachs totaling more than $600,000 after she left the Senate. “Tell me why she’s the worst person in the world”.

Clinton announced her opposition to the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in September.

The Democrats know exactly what they need to do to resist the latest manifestation of the Southern Strategy in the now really Solid South: Reboot the “50 State strategy”.

“Anyone can talk about it”, he said, “but we actually did it”.

“Our country needs new leadership in order to move out of these divided times”, said the former mayor of Baltimore.

Is Hillary a hawk or a dove? And they both have supported the Iraq War.

It was clear that Sanders had that line ready going into the debate.

The senator said the idea that he’d undermined Obama was “categorically false”.

Later, in a question-and-answer session, he again referred to Clinton’s 2007 driver’s license position by calling out “the triangulation and cautious approach of Secretary Clinton”. “They are impatient and they deserve to be impatient”, she said. Sanders, who promised not to go negative and has won support as a nontraditional candidate, argued he was not knocking Clinton. On Friday, he took that opportunity.

He also gave rare personal response, telling Ms Maddox that the biggest misunderstanding the American public have about him is the belief that he is “grumpy”.

I think if you look at my history and what I am saying in this campaign, we need a political revolution.

Larry David appeared this weekend on Saturday Night Live as Bernie Sanders and his impression of the Democratic nominee was hilarious.

The two candidates also touted competing endorsements. The first, fixing when credit reports are wrong, and the second, getting rid of the primary reasons for credit problems, such as student debt and credit cards to pay the bills.

Asked why he voted against banning guns on Amtrak trains, Sanders noted, “You can put unloaded guns into the baggage department of a plane”. It’s too risky”. With his well-known mimicry, Larry David aroused laughter when he said to Strong (Maddow) “Of course I hate you.