Bernie Sanders Reverses Course on Gun Immunity Vote
Yesterday Sanders put out an ad that didn’t mention Hillary Clinton.
This will be the fourth debate for the Democrats and the last one before the Iowa caucuses.
Sunday’s debate is in the city where a 21-year-old white man shot and killed nine people attending a prayer service at an African-American church last summer. Gun control has emerged as a central theme in the race, with Clinton citing it as one of the major differences between the candidates.
The back-and-forth comes two weeks before the Iowa caucus where the latest polls show the two candidates neck-and-neck, and after a week of increased attacks by the Clinton campaign against the Vermont senator.
Instead, Clinton took her mind off her opponents with a hysterical photoshoot with Fallon on her Snapchat account.
Sanders has pulled even with Clinton in recent polls in other early states, but he has had less success connecting with blacks in SC, the dominant Democratic bloc here.
Sanders, for his part, has no interest in making voters eat their vegetables.
Clinton told the crowd that Hillary has been involved in many of his most notable achievements since his days as governor of Arkansas and later as president.
This will be the first debate since President Barack Obama announced his executive actions on guns, a new opening for Clinton to slam Sanders again on the issue.
Sanders, meanwhile, focused on his involvement in the civil rights movement, criminal justice proposals and a call for greater gun control.
“As I have said, I do want to make sure that this legislation does not negatively impact small gun stores in rural America that serve the hunting community”, Sanders said in in his statement.
Sanders has also been on the campaign trail with author and professor Cornel West, which Salon called ” the radical alliance that could change everything”.
John Podesta, Clinton’s top campaign aide, tweeted Saturday that the campaign “welcomes Senator Sanders’ debate-eve conversion, reversing his vote to immunize gun manufacturers”.
The problem with this message is that Clinton is barely beating Republican front-runner Donald Trump in some head-to-head polls (and losing to him in Fox News’ polls). “Whatever your ideas are, you’ve got to implement them”.
Ham-Ellis said she struggles with feeling bad about bothering people on their day off. But then she thinks about what Sanders means to her. She holds the phone for the selfie as Fallon barks “Snap snap snap snap snap!” at the former Secretary of State.
Bloomberg reporter Mark Halperin said Friday that Hillary Clinton’s campaign is “in danger” if she can’t find an effective line of attack against her surging competitor, Sen.