Clinton unveils Nevada argument on Sanders

Clinton’s own campaign message has looked muddled compared to his ringing call for a “political revolution”, and her connections to Wall Street have given Sanders an easy way to link her to the systems his supporters want to overhaul. She learned that in 2008 when African-Americans defected to Barack Obama, a little-known candidate whose name most blacks at first couldn’t even pronounce.

“He was never a Democrat”.

“In my view, the government of a democratic society has a moral responsibility to play a vital role in making sure all our people have a decent standard of living”, Sanders said. He accused Sanders of “dismissive and disrespectful behavior toward the president”. Clinton asked. “Would that solve our problem with voting rights and Republicans who are trying to strip them away from people of color, the elderly and the young?”

SHAPIRO: Hillary Clinton has said the same thing, yeah?

SANDERS: It’s very important.

Sanders, addressing about 4,000 activists at the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s annual Humphrey-Mondale Dinner in St. Paul, the nation should be “proud of the accomplishments of the Obama and Biden administration”. “There’s going to be a narrowing in [South Carolina and Nevada]-we’re clear-eyed about that”, campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said this week.

Cetris Brooks, 21, a senior biology major at South Carolina State, said that ultimately she was “a little bit more trusting” of Clinton because of what the former first lady meant to her family. The report went on to say that at the time, 16.6 percent of adult black males had actually ever gone to prison, or 1 in 6. “I do not expect it from someone seeking the Democratic nomination”, Clinton said in a sharp exchange at the close of the two-hour debate in Milwaukee. And he really did push the idea of a primary challenger to Obama. At the meeting, Clinton discussed the president’s executive actions on immigration and what could happen in the wake of the recent passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, told CNN that Clinton’s jab was disappointing and “really seemed out of place in the debate”. “I am here for … my friend, my beloved sister, who I’ve known for so many years, who’s a warrior, a fighter”. Sanders has suggested Obama hadn’t succeeded in closing the gap between Congress and the American people – something Obama has acknowledged.

“The Clinton campaign takes every single thing that comes out of his mouth, twists it and distorts it and throws it back”, said top Sanders strategist Tad Devine after the debate. His calls for revolutionary change are as tantalizing to liberal voters as they are unrealistic, particularly in today’s polarized politics.

Beneath the talk of common ground, agreement and mutual admiration, there is a latent animosity between the Clinton and Sanders campaigns that now threatens to boil over. Protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement interrupted his speeches, viewing him as out of touch with black issues.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, an influential writer on racial issues, drew attention to the issue recently in an Atlantic Magazine essay entitled “The Case for Reparations”.

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.

African-Americans have criticized Sanders for failing to address their specific concerns, but it has been Sanders notion that his focus on the economy inevitably addresses the struggles of the black community.