Top quotes from the Democratic town hall in South Carolina

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are heavily courting that key demographic. Bush dropped out of the race after Saturday’s SC primary but remains on the Texas ballot. Clinton was next, at 2.41, and Bloomberg, at 3.17, was the only other candidate on the liberal side of the scale. Sanders has pointed to as a model of democratic socialism-where educators work closely with the industrial sector to ensure that students aren’t being groomed for jobs that won’t exist.

All Democratic members of the House of Representatives and the Senate; the Democratic governors; the Democratic president and vice president of the United States; former Democratic presidents and vice presidents; former Democratic leaders of the U.S. Senate; former Democratic speakers of the House and former Democratic minority leaders. He’s no Barack Obama.

Richard Hayes formerly chaired the Dorchester County Democratic Party and now serves on the executive committee.

For Hayes, he is concerned about electability in a national election and about governance with Republicans leading Congress and Senate at least through 2018. Clinton had previously said she would release the transcripts of those speeches when other candidates did the same. He did not appear to be the same Sanders that has electrified huge crowds across the country.

The lesson of the first three Democratic contests, therefore, should be clear: Clinton’s weakness is honesty, but her strength is her perceived advantage in electability. She stood up to an hours-long grilling during the Benghazi hearing and nothing came of it, he said. She argued Sanders is not a “transformational candidate” like Clinton.

He says his campaign has closed the gap with Hillary Clinton and they are not writing off the state. Not Monsanto? “Oh Lord!” she said throwing up her hands.

There was some anger from a handful of Clinton supporters after that convention.

That is because of the narrowness of Sanders’ winning demographics, as demonstrated in Nevada.

But Summerville Town Councilman Aaron Brown and John Thomas are both strongly in Sanders’s corner.

In the coming weeks, Clinton is counting on a strong showing in southern states likely to showcase her dominance among African-American voters, putting the onus on Sanders to try to broaden his support or face falling behind.

Warren Gunnels, policy director for the Sanders campaign, said Sanders’ plans, which include a tax on all Wall Street financial transactions, would be much tougher on financial institutions, including shadow banks, than those proposed by Clinton.

His daughter is still paying off loans, he said. “I am on record…I went to Wall Street before the Great Recession”. Sanders is the only one not obligated to Wall Street, he said. A former black nationalist, he and Sanders became friends while they were both serving as mayors in the 1980s.

He may win in a large number of blue states including NY.

This time, it’s not so clear.

Fox News recently reported that the FBI is investigating not just Clinton’s use of a private email server, but also “whether the possible “intersection” of Clinton Foundation work and State Department business may have violated public corruption laws”. The burning question remains: Did Clinton actually see the video?

“I like a lot of the things Bernie is saying but I’m having a hard time seeing how he’s going to accomplish those things in reality”.

“He’s elderly. He’s Jewish – we never elected a Jewish president”.

West said, “Black people historically have been the most progressive group when it comes to social justice”.

In Sanders’ case, that would be the ex-president of Bennington College, Jane Sanders. “Clinton’s possible indictment and how real is that”.

In another finding, 58 percent of voters said they think state Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane should resign.

Grant said she won’t be making up her mind in the ballot box and will be making her decision soon, like many other voters in the area. Obama prior to the primary. They could also switch allegiances. Turnout for the race was 19.8 percent.

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“They haven’t alienated as numerous people they are trying to attract”, he said.

He suggested creating local community mutual funds which would allow people to invest in their communities while they invest for retirement.