Sanders: Clinton Using $500000 in Wall Street Cash to Buy Campaign Ads

The GOP race has been a fiery contest, with Trump levying sharply personal attacks on his rivals and other candidates, including Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, releasing no-holds-barred negative advertisements.

“US race relations bad enough without Clinton, Sanders trolling for black votes trying to criminalise cops”.

If Trump and Clinton receive the nominations, I suspect that the super PAC issue will become the defining issue of the election.

And back when Sanders was suggesting Obama should face a primary challenge, there were many people on the left-I was among them-who disagreed, but who were also discouraged at his efforts to reach a “grand bargain” with Republicans that would have cut Social Security and Medicare in exchange for some tax hikes.

Clinton is more organized in Colorado but Sanders shouldn’t be underestimated when it comes to his supporters turning out.

Seeking to boost his support with minorities, Sanders called for reforms to a “broken criminal justice system” that incarcerates a disproportionate number of minorities.

After an event in Reno, Sanders said Clinton’s tactic of casting him as a single issue candidate was “stunning” and that he thought the Clinton campaign was coming “unraveled”. Clinton campaigned in Denmark, South Carolina, where she outlined a $125 billion economic revitalization proposal aimed at creating jobs, improving infrastructure and building housing in “communities of poverty and systemic racism”.

SANDERS: And for lots of these young black voters, there’s a thing about Hillary Clinton that they just don’t trust. She stepped in and said that by economists’ estimates, the government would grow 40 per cent under Sanders. Sanders didn’t shy away from the notion that he wants to expand the size of government.

“Look, we are fighting for every vote that we can get from women, from men, straight, gay, African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans”, Sanders said.

On the issue of campaign donations, a typically strong talking point for Sanders given his reliance on small donors and refusal to take money from Wall Street or large corporate donors, Clinton attempted to downplay the idea that big money from banks would have big influence, leaning on Obama.

Both candidates sought to appeal to black voters on Friday.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Meanwhile, the former secretary of state said the price tag of going to government-run health care would simply be too high.

Sanders supports a $15 an hour minimum wage, while Clinton supports $12. But it doesn’t make me ashamed of my generation, as much as it makes me question theirs. Reed went on to challenge Sanders’ record, saying, “Show me in the Senate where he led some broad coalition to get something significant accomplished…”