Joe Biden ducks questions about 2016 presidential race

Little wonder then that “Saturday Night Live” is clambering after the candidates, showcasing Clinton on its season premiere and lining up Trump to host later this fall.

“I’m not going to comment on labels other people apply to themselves”, said Clinton, who labels herself a “progressive Democrat”.

After months of giddily watching Hillary Clinton stumble through her campaign launch, Republicans are suddenly confronting something new: a Democratic front-runner with momentum.

A day after aggressively defending her long public service record and contrasting it with that of Sanders, Clinton remained in Nevada, talking to local media in the early voting state. Clinton has a lot of debate experience. Clinton didn’t bomb and Biden probably won’t declare.

Concerned Veterans for America, a conservative group, issued a statement Wednesday calling Sanders an “apologist for the status quo at the VA and [who] repeatedly minimized the deep-rooted problems within the department”.

The left-wing crowd loved it and erupted into wild applause, as did the assembled “unbiased” journalists in the press room.

Webb often appeared stiff during the debate and complained about unfair time allocations for responses during the almost three-hour event. And the stage felt fully complete without Biden there, too. And it was really like they want to pit one against the other. But in my time in the Senate, tried to bring them to the table so that we could address carbon dioxide. Clinton suggested illegal immigrants should be eligible for Obamacare subsidies.

Memo to Democrats: If your policies are failing, try something different.

To the extent that foreign policy was discussed, the debate largely centered around relitigating the Iraq war. Israel was mentioned only once.

“I have always fought for the same values and principles, but like most human beings, including those of us who run for office, I do absorb new information”. “They don’t mind having big government to interfere with a woman’s right to choose and to try to take down Planned Parenthood”.

That would have been a good opportunity for Cooper to ask, “Is there one abortion anyone on this stage would legally prevent?” Lemon introduced a video question submitted via Facebook that asked, “Do black lives matter or do all lives matter?”

That should have been an easy question to answer.

Although Allen said he thought Sanders has many shining moments during the debate, the one moment where the senator struggled was in explaining his stance on gun control. Candidates who are favored by more traditional Republicans, like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, risk being associated with the rhetoric of their rivals – or never find a way to overtake them. Chafee said, “Chaos in the Middle East”. Martin O’Malley said the NRA.

Sanders said he agrees with the position taken by Pope Francis in his recent encyclical on climate change, that, “This is a moral issue. I thought they all did well”, he said after a speech in Washington about transportation investment.

“She bragged that she made enemies of Republicans?” “Like her or not, she did her job”, Trump told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, before telling NBC News later that she’d be a “formidable” debating opponent. Jim Webb said he supports “affirmative action for African Americans” because of “their unique history in this country, with slavery and the Jim Crow laws that followed”.