Clinton says Sanders making promises that ‘cannot be kept’

Last I heard, we lived in a democratic society.

Bernie Sanders on Thursday night argued that the fruits of his economic agenda would help ease racial tensions in America. Sanders responded by calling Clinton’s attacks a low blow. “I met President Clinton”. His campaigns says it expects his impassioned calls for raising the minimum wage, breaking up Wall Street banks, and overhauling the current campaign finance system to resonate in more diverse states as well as it did in Iowa and New Hampshire. After Sanders’ 22 percentage point win over Clinton earlier this week in New Hampshire, voters might have expected some fireworks. On Thursday night, he did not have to say whether he still believes it was a “good idea” to say all that, because the moment Clinton brought it up, it was time for closing statements.

“At the end of my first term, we will not have more people in jail than any other country”, he said.

With both candidates courting minorities ahead of the SC primary and Nevada caucuses, there was agreement on the need for reform in the criminal justice system.

The candidates both vowed to pursue comprehensive immigration reform, using the emotional issue to draw a contrast with Republicans who oppose allowing numerous millions of people in the United States illegally to stay.

Sanders said her critique is “completely inaccurate” and his proposal would save money for middle- and lower-income families.

Clinton, who is keen to strike a new path as the presidential campaign moves south and west, quickly went on the offensive, hammering the senator from Vermont on health care and his plan to make university education free for all.

The two have had six debates so far, and they recently added more to the schedule after both campaigns asked the Democratic National Committee to sanction additional showdowns.

The head-to-head contest between Clinton and Sanders was pointed, yet polite – a contrast to what has become an increasingly heated contest on the campaign trail.

Clinton questioned how Sanders would pay for health care for all. Mrs. Clinton said those proposals come with unrealistic price tags. And she accused Sanders of trying to shade the truth about what she said would be a 40 percent increase in the size of the federal government in order to implement his policies.

We can only wonder what the legions of Millennials backing Sanders’ campaign thought about the extended disquisition on a diplomat who came to power about 25 years before many of them were born.

Clinton dodged an opportunity to distance herself from former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s recent controversial comments that there was “a special place in hell” for women who don’t support other women.

Clinton, meanwhile, said she’s not asking people to vote for her because she’s a woman, but because she’d make the best commander in chief. At his victory speech in New Hampshire he told his supporters, “Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington – from ME to California – and that is that the government of our great country belongs to all of the people, and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their super PACs”.

Sanders – the self-described democratic socialist – has huge appeal among younger voters and can no longer be considered a so-called fringe candidate.