Hillary Clinton’s freakish answer about her ties to Wall Street

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton at the CNN Democratic Debate at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, Tuesday, October 13, 2015.

Joined by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, at a fall barbecue, the front-runner said Sunday that middle-class families “need a raise, not a tax increase” and she was the lone Democrat in the debate to commit to raising wages “and not your taxes”. “She’s put forward the strongest policies on Wall street reform”, Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, told Yahoo News.

The reality of the Democratic race is that the path to the nomination is expanding for Hillary Clinton and shrinking for Bernie Sanders. “Those of us who were there know that”, the former president said, according to Bloomberg. “It adds even more momentum to the Clinton campaign that has already distanced itself from the rest of the field”, Kefauver said in an email.

“What democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong to say that the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this country own nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent”, said Sanders.

At the debate, Sanders said Clinton was tied to Wall Street because a few of her biggest lifetime contributors come from employees of the nation’s biggest financial institutions.

As Ben White has found in those same conversations with Democrats on Wall Street, they are completely unfazed by a Clinton candidacy, calling her leftward shift on economic issues “just politics” and “a Rorschach test for how politically sophisticated people are”. “I can certainly say there’s a lot of folks on Wall Street that don’t agree with her platform and her agenda, but she has stuck to it”. “I don’t think they saw that as something appropriate to do, to mask her coziness and her closeness to Wall Street and all of the architects of the crash of 2008”.

The family leave legislation that Sanders has embraced was introduced by Kristen Gillibrand, Clinton’s successor in the Senate from NY.

As for O’Malley, he echoed the sentiments made by Clinton and Sanders and took care not to offend the Muslim community.

Sanders, who met earlier in the day with family caregivers, also called on Clinton to support legislation he’s co-sponsored that would provide three months paid leave if an employee has a child. Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough said the moment was “Clinton at her very worst”.

“I represented NY, and I represented NY on 9/11 when we were attacked”, she said. The fast food workers held the latest in a series of nationwide strikes last week, and Clinton expressed her support for the protesters on Twitter.

“I was actually the only one on that debate stage on Saturday who will commit to raising your wages and not your taxes”, Clinton said.