Clinton And Sanders Woo Black Vote In TV Duel

Sanders told her, “Well, it ain’t Henry Kissinger”. Except when they didn’t.

“I want to follow up on something having to do with leadership because, you know, today Senator Sanders said that President Obama failed the presidential leadership test. And this is not the first time that he has criticized President Obama”, Clinton said.

“The kind of criticism that we’ve heard from Senator Sanders about our President, I expect from Republicans”, she said.

Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton makes a point as Sen. After noting that “relations between the races” hadn’t gotten better under Obama, Judy Woodruff asked him: “So race relations would be better under a Sanders presidency than they’ve been?”

Clinton said she intends to keeping talking about “tearing down all the barriers” standing in the way of Americans so they can reach their potential. Of the 10 percent of undecided respondents, 87 percent say that Clinton’s failure to disclose foreign government donations to her family’s foundation make them less likely to support her. More than three-quarters say the same about her support for the 2008 Wall Street bailouts and subsequent paid speeches at investment banks.

For the Vermont U.S. Senator who calls himself a democratic socialist, the trend could help chip away at the huge lead Clinton holds with blacks across the southern states.

Seeking to boost his support with minorities, Sanders called for reforms to a “broken criminal justice system” that incarcerates a disproportionate number of minorities. The blurb said that the next president of the United States has got to be aggressive in bringing people into the political process.

“We also have to talk about jobs, education, housing, and other ways of helping communities”, said Clinton, who was endorsed earlier in the day by the political action committee of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Those two white folks, it was noted far and wide, angle for the same bounty of black votes at stake in the upcoming SC primary and other southerns states to follow shortly after. “I was not that candidate”, said Sanders. Those states have more black and Hispanic voters, who, polls show, have been more supportive of Mrs Clinton so far.

“Sanders has critiqued Obama and used those words to describe the feelings of Americans, or to describe Obama’s policies”, Politifact continued. Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Dr. Ben Carson and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

His average contribution, $27, is one-hundredth the legal maximum of $2 700, the more typical size of cheques to presidential candidates, including Clinton.

I rearranged the order of the comments in last night’s debate to highlight the fact that this is not just the same argument, but that Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are saying the same things.