Clinton, Sanders seek minority voters after polite debate

However, Ms Clinton also sought to raise doubts about the other planks of his campaign – to introduce free tuition at public colleges and free healthcare under a government-run system – saying they were unrealistic politically and couldn’t be paid for. Except when they didn’t.

While moderating the Democratic presidential debate Thursday night, journalist Gwen Ifill took a bit of left turn.

The kind of criticism that we’ve heard from Senator Sanders about our president I expect from Republicans. But he also stressed that Sanders respects Obama and was not suggesting that race relations have gotten worse since 2009. “One of us ran against Barack Obama”, he fired back at Mrs Clinton. In an October 2015 interview with MSNBC, he said that the president and vice president have done “a damn good job”, but that America needs a “course correction”.

Last year’s fundraising reports show that Sanders raised 72% of his campaign money from people who gave $200 or less, while for Clinton those donors accounted for just 16% of her funds. Bernie Sanders of Vermont slammed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her support and friendship towards former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Seeking to boost his support with minorities, Sanders called for reforms to a “broken criminal justice system” that incarcerates a disproportionate number of minorities. Plus, in overall terms, Clinton remains ahead in superdelegates – which is no guarantee that it’ll save a candidacy rejected at the polls, but they can tip the scales in a close race. But in a preview of the fight to come between Clinton and Sanders, U.S. Rep. and civil rights leader John Lewis dismissed the senator’s work Thursday: “I never saw him”.

Both candidates used the debate in Wisconsin to reach out to voters in SC, where more than half those casting ballots in the 2008 Democratic primary were African-American.

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

“Let’s not insult the intelligent of the American people”.

“I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend”.

Presidential candidates in both parties battled for the crucial backing of black in Hispanic voters Friday as the race shifted toward states with more minority voters.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (VT-I), Democratic Presidential Candidate: That is…

HILLARY CLINTON: Every progressive economist who has analyzed that says that the numbers don’t add up, and that’s a promise that can not be kept.

“When we have more people in jail, disproportionately African American and Latino, than China does, a communist authoritarian society four times our size”, Sanders said.

During the two-hour showdown, one of the most heated exchanges was over the issue of wall street ties and campaign finance reform.