Hillary Clinton defends Madeleine Albright’s ‘special place in hell’ comments in Milwaukee

Hillary Clinton went up with an ad focusing on the country’s “broken” immigration system, while Bernie Sanders’ campaign released a powerful video featuring Eric Garner’s daughter.

The socialist feminist in question, Daily Kos blogger jhannon, wrote that she first supported Sanders but decided that his proposed political revolution was too unrealistic, and that Clinton at least calls Republicans her “enemy”.

“I think what our campaign is indicating is that the American people are exhausted of establishment politics, exhausted of establishment economics”, Sanders said in his opening statement. And a new television spot features an African-American Charleston pastor, the Rev Anthony Thompson, exhorting viewers to vote for Ms Clinton because of her anti-guns stance; his wife was killed in the Charleston church massacre last June.

Bernie Sanders has more than 200 aides on the ground in the US state, which holds its presidential primary in two weeks. Here’s the former First Lady, senator and secretary of State taking aim at Senator Sanders plans to expand Medicare beyond the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare): “If it’s Medicare for all, then you no longer have the Affordable Care Act, because the Affordable Care Act, as you know very well, is based on the insurance system, based on exchanges, based on a subsidy system”.

Those figures surprise conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum, who says there’s nothing about Sanders that’s attractive to women. “The kind of criticism that we’ve heard from Senator Sanders about our President I expect from Republicans”.

Candidates usually avoid taking swipes at home-state politicians during debates, but Walker (who ran his own brief presidential campaign before dropping out in September last year) is a lightning rod for Wisconsin Democrats. “And Senator Sanders’ plan really rests on making sure that governors, like Scott Walker, contribute $23 billion on the first day to make college free”. It allows Wall Street and billionaires to pour huge sums of money into the political process to elect the candidates of their choice. The search engine tracks the frequency with which users search keywords, and during Thursday’s debate, Sanders’ name was searched more than Clinton’s.

Mr Sanders called that “a low blow”. “And yet they are seeing nearly all new income and all new wealth going to the top 1 per cent”, Mr Sanders said.

It’s hard to see how else women were supposed to take her comment in the context of a Clinton rally: “Just remember: There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other”. He said he was the candidate willing to take on drug companies, the insurance industry and medical equipment suppliers who might be opposed to an overhaul.

The two battled on the usual fronts – government healthcare, the Iraq War, etc. – however they also invoked President Barack Obama far more than in any other debate.

After a sweeping loss in the New Hampshire primary, Clinton worked to generate more momentum in the Midwest, specifically to African American voters who are more supportive of her campaign.