Clinton lands key labor endorsement

Hillary Clinton says Bernie Sanders’ health plan would endanger the accomplishments of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and that it would impose a tax increase that middle class Americans can’t afford.

Sanders, in a brief interview following a town hall meeting at Simpson College in Indianola, said he could pay for his agenda without raising taxes on middle-class families.

As Ben White has found in those same conversations with Democrats on Wall Street, they are completely unfazed by a Clinton candidacy, calling her leftward shift on economic issues “just politics” and “a Rorschach test for how politically sophisticated people are”.

According to Fleming, he said he isn’t sure O’Malley did much to improve his ranking during the debate – and that Sanders has slipped in a few states where he was polling ahead of Clinton. “So, yes, I did know people…”

Sanders put Clinton on the defensive in the debate when he said Wall Street had been the major contributor to her campaigns in order to get support in return.

“Last night in the debate, Secretary Clinton, to try to mask her proximity to Wall Street, the huge amount of dollars and contributions she has received personally from the major banks of Wall Street, sadly invoked 9/11 to try to mask that”, he said.

“I’ve watched all these debates and I think I’m going to vote for Hillary”, he joked before taking a seat on the stage to watch her speech.

Frank said the bill was approved over the strenuous objections of Wall Street lobbyists and signed by President Barack Obama, whose 2008 campaign received large contributions from the industry.

“I don’t know about you, but I’d be a little concerned about turning it over to Greg Abbott”, Clinton said in one of several references to the Texas governor.

“I represented NY, and I represented NY on 9/11 when we were attacked”.

“When we were attacked, where were we attacked?” The former NY Senator added she spent “a whole lot of time and effort to rebuild. It was good for the economy and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country”, she said.

The former secretary of state did not make any mention of her controversial answer linking Wall Street with 9/11, but she did call the September 11 attacks a “searing, terrible experience in our country”.

Sanders, who met earlier in the day with family caregivers, also called on Clinton to support legislation he’s co-sponsored that would provide three months paid leave if an employee has a child.

She has support from 56 percent of her party, versus 31 percent for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, her main rival, in a five-day rolling poll by Reuters/IPSOS dated November 13.