O’Malley, Sanders, Clinton take part in televised forum

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And on Donald Trump, Clinton said that the Republican front-runner was once a supporter of hers but that all changed when he chose to run for president.

“I wasn’t able to make her immune to setbacks, as we saw in the aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death”, O’Malley said, defending policies during his time as mayor that had been considered heavy handed by a few. “If I’m wrong about the public debate, I obviously take responsibility for that”, the candidate said. On Saturday in Columbia, Sanders rolled out 20 endorsements from state leaders, including African-Americans such as Rep. Terry Alexander of Florence, Sumter County Council member Eugene R. Baten and Omari Fox, a Black Lives Matter leader. On the one hand I appreciate what Bernie Sanders has brought to our primary process. “That’s not the case”. Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s stoutest Democratic opponent.

“I think contested elections are not a bad thing, but the idea that I worked against President Obama is untrue”, Sanders went on.

“You can put unloaded guns into the baggage department of a plane”, he explained.

He also questioned Clinton’s sincerity on call for campaign finance reform. “I just will not do that”. “You’ve got to have that kind of confidence if you’re going to be in this arena”, she added. No such amendment was introduced during Clinton’s two terms in the White House, Maddow noted.

Hello! And welcome to our live coverage of the first Democratic presidential candidates’ forum of 2016. “I was against it a year ago”, he said.

And Sanders didn’t mind piling on Clinton, while at the same time calling out the media for wanting him to attack Clinton.

Clinton said she opposed the pipeline in September, a project she said she was “inclined” to support back in 2010 as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state. “I am not too sure”, joked the former First Lady. “I think he’s doing much better than he normally does re: conveying a message”, McKesson wrote on Twitter.

O’Malley repeatedly highlighted the differences between the Republican candidates and those of his party.

Clinton, who has surged recently in the polls, was the last to speak.

She continued with the populist rhetoric that has been a hallmark of her campaign. A fear of an amendment came up in “private discussions”, she said.

Maddow cited financial support she’s gotten from Wall Street executives, including paid speeches for Goldman Sachs totaling more than $600,000 after she left the Senate.

Sanders, a US senator from Vermont whose campaign has reached out to young voters, took chances to appeal to an electorate who may not really know him by saying the same issues facing South Carolinians are faced by residents of Vermont.

Like Sanders, Hagan compared Clinton’s positions not to her rivals for the nomination, but to the GOP field.

“I want us to use diplomacy which is why I spent 18 months putting together the sanctions against Iran so that we could force them to the negotiating table”, Clinton told Maddow. South Carolina hosts the South’s first primary on February 27, weeks after Iowa and New Hampshire begin the 2016 presidential voting.