Debate Takeaways: Clinton, Sanders appeal to SC, Nevada

The Democratic presidential candidates turn to Nevada next Saturday, where each candidate needs to take a stand. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, reacts during a Democratic presidential primary debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, in Milwaukee.

Clinton accused 74-year-old Sanders of voting against the 2007 immigration reform bill that included a pathway to citizenship. Except when they didn’t.

The Democratic candidates spent much of Thursday’s debate in “vigorous agreement”, as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it. However, the two candidates did present clashing viewpoints on how to best achieve their common goals, including universal healthcare.

She is the one who already has a track record and history of trying to deny minorities their rightful place in this country: Barack Hussein Obama, the Reverend Jackson – who at one point wanted to be president, and her husband gets in the way.

Clinton took offense to the notion that it’s her super PAC, saying “You’re referring to a super PAC that we don’t coordinate, that was set up to support President Obama, that has now decided they want to support me”.

“I think what our campaign is indicating is that the American people are exhausted of establishment politics, exhausted of establishment economics”, Sanders said in his opening statement.

“Let’s not insult the intelligence of the American people”, he said.

“Madam Secretary, that is a low blow”, said Mr Sanders, a United States senator from Vermont.

“You know, I completely agree with Senator Sanders”, Clinton said. Clinton holds a commanding lead over Sanders in the state.

He pushed back on Clinton’s criticism of Sanders’ policy proposals in the debate on Thursday night as unrealistic, saying her message was “technocratic management” contrasted with “an inspirational, inclusive vision for the nation” from Sanders. SC is the first state with a large number of voters from the Democratic Party’s most important constituency group, African-Americans.

“We’re going to emphasize education, jobs and housing”, said Clinton, who was endorsed earlier in the day by the political action committee of the Congressional Black Caucus.

“We have to restore policing that will actually protect the communities that police officers are sworn to protect”, Clinton said. Sanders leans into the podium, his right index finger pointing at the viewer as he promises a radical new way of doing business. Marco Rubio a distant second and third.

When Clinton replied that Sanders hasn’t identified his foreign-policy advisers, Sanders replied, “Well, it ain’t Henry Kissinger – that’s for sure”. However, she will have to present her arguments very carefully if she does not want to further alienate Sanders’ supporters, especially younger female voters. She also noted that Obama picked her to be secretary of state. “He has called him a disappointment”, Clinton said in an extended attack. When Sanders assailed the influence of Wall Street on the nation’s political system, she said Obama had received millions from the financial industry but had still signed the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul.