Democratic presidential debate: Bernie Sanders tells Hillary Clinton: ‘People

Hillary Clinton claimed “the economy does better when we have a Democrat in the White House”.

Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the CNN Democratic presidential debate Tuesday, October 13, 2015, in Las Vegas. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for his voting five times against the Brady bill.

But O’Malley left the debate stage Tuesday night without a standout moment or zinger that people will be talking about Wednesday.

O’Malley made the pitch Tuesday night that he could do better than all the promises made by Vermont Sen.

If Vice President Joe Biden was looking for an opening to join the Democratic field, the debate didn’t appear to give him one.

“We haven’t finish all of the analysis”, Clinton told the Commonwealth Club in October 2010. Displayed the calm, cool “I got this” demeanor on issues foreign and domestic. Martin O’Malley may not be as radical as Sanders, but he is certainly to Clinton’s left, and his record in Baltimore and Maryland, where he put many left wing ideas into practice, will be easily attacked by the Republicans.

Even with Sanders’ dismissal of the email issue, Clinton faces a slow drip of email news, a result of a court order mandating regular releases of her correspondence right up to three days before the Iowa caucuses.

“Nobody does, Senator Sanders”, Clinton interjected.

“Even though I expect it to be a very boring two hours, I will be covering the Democrat debate live on Twitter!” said the media-savvy real estate tycoon.

Clinton also seemed to want to tackle a major criticism that dogged her candidacy seven years ago: that she can come across as robotic and cold.

Clinton said she would forcefully confront Russian President Vladimir Putin and his recent interventtions on behalf of the Assad regime in Syria.

Clinton used her rival’s moderate position on guns – Sanders hails from Vermont, a rural state with few firearm restrictions – to highlight an area where liberals break with Sanders.

Yes, he brought his style – which means he yelled, he gesticulated and he played the role of explainer.

Sanders, who voted against the Iraq War, said Syria was a “quagmire in a quagmire”.

“After fielding a question about her email scandal at the first Democratic presidential debate, the former secretary of State once again acknowledged that her use of personal email on a private server was a mistake”. It was a moment of humor laced with Sanders trademark fire. You can also bet that Republicans would jump at the chance to take on Sanders instead of Clinton.

Lincoln Chafee – Nothing gained, nothing loss.

Obama hammered Clinton constantly for her vote to go to war in Iraq during the 2008 campaign.

But it was Clinton who earned a massive round of applause when, asked if she wanted to respond, offered a curt response: “No”.

Pressed by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, she said she wasn’t saying the inquiry into the attack in Libya “wasn’t legitimate”. I voted against it. I was in the Senate the same time. His defense of his conscientious objection to fighting in Vietnam and insistence that war should be the last resort got him cheers from the crowd. You said this is a huge issue. “Big surprise. And that’s what they have attempted to do”.

Moderator Anderson Cooper asked candidates, beginning with Clinton, how they would be different from President Barack Obama. She stuck to a familiar script Tuesday, but there’s only so far that can get her. And she got the greatest gift she could hope for when Sanders declared her emails a non-issue. Webb demures, but Sanders’ argument is that he’s changed since then – “I’m not a pacifist…I am prepared to take this country to war”.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen. She did just that.

But it was her answer to why she took so long to oppose the Keystone pipeline that could cause headaches for the former secretary of state down the line.

Here are the early thoughts on who won, who lost and who failed to make the meter move. He had an opportunity to make an impression, and failed to take advantage.

But Clinton swatted Chafee, the joke of the night, away like a mosquito.

When Chafee was asked why he voted to repeal Glass-Steagall-the Depression-era law separating commercial and investment banking that was overturned in 1999-the former senator couldn’t muster more than ¯_(ツ)_/¯ to explain his vote. That didn’t fly, and challenged twice to justify his vote, he finally cracked. I’d been appointed by the governor.