Clinton, Sanders clash over progressive values

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi defended Hillary Clinton’s progressive credentials on Thursdays as rival Bernie Sanders continues to suggest the former secretary of state only embraces the ideology when it’s politically expedient. He cited her shifts on trade and energy policies and her 2003 Senate vote to back the Iraq war, which she has called a mistake. Which do you think has more of a chance of winning in November? Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, speaking in separate appearances at a CNN town hall here Wednesday night, disputed each other’s definition of “progressive”. I am for a positive, progressive economic agenda that can actually put people to work and raise incomes.

The state party indicated in a separate statement that it was not ready to make a call. It’s not clear which pundits Clinton was referring to, and CNN could not identify any public suggestions by political pundits that she should skip the state.

“I think there was something…to Sanders’ message that inspires the base”, Anderson said.

Hillary Clinton has an uphill road in New Hampshire. The sticky subjects of email servers and Benghazi did not come up, but Clinton said no topic is off the table in the campaign.

She said part of that plan is to implement a “Buffett rule”.

Clinton will also focus much more strongly than Sanders on what’s happening in the Republican race, because she wants voters to remember what’s at risk.

Since then, there’s been lots of back and forth between the Sanders and Clinton campaigns over whether each candidate would participate in the new debate, whether there would be additional debates scheduled, where those debates would be held, and whether the new debates would be sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee.

After Clinton’s speech Monday night, in which she stopped short of claiming victory, aides briefed reporters at about 1:30 a.m. aboard the campaign plane on the Des Moines airport tarmac, trying mightily to spin a victory in the absence of final results. “Don’t go to war.’ Secretary Clinton voted to go to war”. “That is what I will do as your President”, said Clinton.

The domestic-policy differences usually seem to put Clinton to the left of Obama-although, when they were running against each other, in 2008, most people thought of him as being to the left of her. Clinton came out against the Keystone pipeline weeks before Obama did, and publicly broke with him over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which he supports and she now opposes. Sanders said pharmaceutical companies should be accountable for their products and the consequences of drug overdoses.

“I am here and I will be here all week, in small groups and large, making my case, answering questions”, Clinton said Tuesday night in Hampton.

“I am not going to say longshot”, Shumaker said of Clinton’s bid in New Hampshire, “but (it) is certainly uphill”.

“It basically is practice the discipline of gratitude”, she said, explaining that limitations necessitate reaching out to more people, that critics should be heard.

The theme has always been key to the contest between Democrats, but with Martin O’Malley’s exit from the race this week, that contest is focused and dagger-sharp, and it’s rooted in the emotional question of which candidate would represent cash-strapped, everyday Americans. Clinton, who had hoped for a strong finish against Sanders in Iowa to vanquish his insurgent candidacy, in New Hampshire hopes to overcome his polling lead.

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