Bernie Sanders’ Health-Care Plan Would Provide ‘Medicare for All’

“People just haven’t heard almost as many negative arguments against Sanders as they have against Clinton”, Nyhan said, noting how some Republicans have actually tried to boost the Sanders campaign.

This time around, Hilary Clinton might have to wait for the third contest, that in SC, to turn things around.

As she faces an unexpected challenge from Sanders in the early voting states, Clinton’s move to portray herself as an heir to Obama’s policies is aimed at courting young voters and progressives who are part of the president’s political base.

The charges were leveled in a letter released on Tuesday and signed by 10 former senior U.S. diplomats and national security officials who are supporting the former secretary of state.

Sanders has pointed to that difference before, and he chose to call attention to it again on a day on which a group of foreign policy experts supporting Clinton’s campaign said he appears confused or misinformed about Iran and current Mideast flash points.

“The comments that Senator Sanders has made… don’t just affect me, I can take that, but he’s criticized President Obama for taking donations from Wall Street”.

She defended him by saying that “the comments that Sen”.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders greets supporters at a campaign event in Underwood, Iowa, on January 19, 2016.

However, a different story was told during the Democratic presidential debate in which Sanders’ name was elevated. By successfully limiting the debates to weekends and times when few are watching, Clinton has limited her opponents’ exposure and chances to land a big blow. The question is how high, and how loyal minority voters prove to be to Hillary Clinton, her husband, and her implicit ally Barack Obama.

Sanders fired back that Clinton’s claims were “nonsense”, noting that he was on the committee that helped write the ACA in the first place and that his plan would help those who remain uninsured or underinsured.

Mr. Sanders accused Mrs. Clinton of being in the pocket of financial institutions responsible for the 2008 crisis. “I want us to defend and build on the Affordable Care Act and improve it”, Clinton concluded.

Monmouth University has a new national poll out that casts some fascinating, if very preliminary, light on this subject.

“Because the stance she has on education, being an education major, it will affect me”, Shambria Littlejohn said.