Bernie Sanders sees ‘real path’ to winning African Americans’ support

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks…

Hillary Clinton is up with a new campaign ad, calling for efforts to confront what she says is an American “epidemic of gun violence”. “There’s an investigation going on right now”.

“You get 12 seconds to say these things”, he said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal about his original comments at the October 13 debate.

Sanders is already airing his first television ad of the campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire, pumping $2 million into a spot that discusses his political activism as a college student, his work as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and his record in Congress, including his 2002 vote against the Iraq war, which Clinton supported at the time.

Martin O’Malley has knocked Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on everything from gun control and trade to not being tough enough on Wall Street, but the long-shot presidential hopeful is careful to note that he maintains “a tremendous amount of respect” for the former secretary of state.

While drawing contrasts with Clinton, Sanders said he would not allow their future debates to devolve into the “food fights” he says the Republicans’ debates have been. After Clinton gave her standard-issue answer – I’ve said I made a mistake, no laws were broken, etc. – Sanders chimed in with this: “I think the secretary is right”.

Clinton went on to rack up several wins after the inaugural debate, including coming out on top at the end of an 11-hour appearance before the House Select Committee on Benghazi and receiving endorsements from a slew of congressional lawmakers and major unions, including AFSCME.

But that was a reversal of sorts from what he said in last month’s Democratic presidential debate.

Of the African-Americans contacted, 80 percent were leading toward her.

“The goal has got to be over the next few years no worker earns less than $15 an hour”, Sanders said. Clinton used those remarks at campaign events last month to swipe at Sanders.

Of those surveyed, 57 percent said they viewed the Black Lives Matter movement favorably, while 20 percent said they were not familiar with it.

Journalists and pundits quickly latched onto the quote as a potentially important shift for Sanders, who has trailed Clinton by wide margins in national polls, and a sign that he might be starting to attack the frontrunner. “We have to make sure they have jobs, income, health care, education, job training they need”. “I think we’re going to continue to gain ground by talking about the real issues that impact the American middle class income and wealth inequality, the collapse of the American working class, climate change and the fact that we have more people in jail than any other country on earth”.

“I probably can and will do better in drawing a contrast”, Sanders said.

‘I certainly do not have a problem with women speaking out, ‘ Sanders said.

Sanders said his Jewish family had included many who lost loved ones in the Holocaust, and this history inspired him to oppose the current upsurge in anti-immigrant sentiment and “Islamophobia”.