Clinton and Sanders vie for black votes

As the Los Angeles Times explained, “Clinton’s repeated citing of Obama had a practical effect: it was evidence of her loyalty to the nation’s first African-American president at a time when the campaign is moving into states with large minority populations, including Nevada, with its strong percentage of Latino voters, and SC, where African-Americans make up more than half of Democratic voters”.

“A little-known fact: Citizens United was about a right-wing attack on me, one of many over the years, an attempt to push back on the views and values I’d espoused”, she said, to applause from the front of the room.

Sanders supports a $15 an hour minimum wage, while Clinton supports $12. “I’m going to look past them”.

“The kind of criticism that we’ve heard from Sen”. The Vermont senator said the government had a “moral responsibility” to improve everyone’s standard of living, and he listed several problems he believed the country faces. I thought it was a good idea to allow these children to stay in this country.

“If @TedCruz doesn’t clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen”, Mr Trump wrote. He has cut state education spending deeply during his tenure, and Clinton expressed doubt that Walker and other GOP governors will go along with Sanders’ unapologetic spending and taxing plans.

SANDERS: “A male, African-American baby born today stands a one-in-four chance of ending up in jail”.

“Sanders also took a swipe at Clinton by emphasizing his independence of wealthy political contributors”.

If Sanders does criticize her more personally on Thursday night, it would reflect a significant turn in the tone of the race. You know, from my perspective, maybe because I understand what President Obama inherited, not only the worst financial crisis but the antipathy of the Republicans in Congress, I don’t think he gets the credit he deserves for being a president …

Over the past month, Hillary Clinton has gone after Bernie Sanders on a host of issues as he’s encroached on her in the polls: Guns, health care and his campaign’s defining issue – Wall Street reform.

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that the tax increases in Sanders’ plan would cover only about 75 percent of what Sanders says it will cost, creating a $3 trillion hole in the federal budget over 10 years.

“I know you’re scared to say black, I know you’re scared to say reparations”, one woman said.

The tough exchanges were proof of how much the race has changed after Sanders’ big victory in New Hampshire.

Gathered below are 11 clashes between Sanders and Clinton that show the Democratic race is heating up.

Baloney. The truth is that the putative “center” – where the Democratic Leadership Council and Bill Clinton’s “triangulation” of the 1990s found refuge, where George W. Bush and his corporate buddies and neoconservative advisers held sway, and where Barack Obama’s Treasury Department granted Wall Street banks huge bailouts but didn’t rescue desperate homeowners – did a job on the rest of America, and is now facing a reckoning. “I guess just for the fun of it; they want to throw money around”. What Clinton wanted to accomplish after her New Hampshire shellacking was to show, as they say, a way forward.

As secretary of state, Clinton famously declared “gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights” in her 2011 Human Rights Day speech.

He attacked Clinton, out of the blue, for having touted the mentorship of Kissinger, a Republican former secretary of state under Richard Nixon hated by liberals for his role in Vietnam, Cambodia and elsewhere.

“We should be deporting criminals, not hardworking immigrant families who do the very best they can”, Clinton said.