Voter focus shifts to Clinton, Sanders ahead of SC Democratic Primary

All of the aforementioned issues – immigration, education and economic inequality and #BlackLivesMatter – are expected to be weaved into the programming of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, said the event’s CEO, Rev. Leah Daughtry. As he has before, he stressed that it would come from taxing speculative investment transactions, and he pointed out that other countries spend less on health care than the USA does while providing universal coverage.

Richmond charged that Sanders’ proposal to make tuition free at public colleges and universities does nothing for private HBCUs such as Morehouse. “You have my word that we will not only sustain but will substantially increase funding” for these schools, Sanders replied. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were in Columbia, while some Lowcountry voters held a watch party at the Penn Center in St. Helena.

He opened the town hall by reiterating his call for Clinton to release transcripts of paid speeches that she made to Wall Street banks after she left the State Department.

Clinton, who appeared on stage after Sanders, sidestepped questions about the senator’s call for her to release her speeches. Bernie Sanders. The former secretary of state noted her win in Nevada and the fact that she will be heading to SC later this week for the state’s primary Saturday.

Clinton told her supporters that they had nothing to fear from the controversy, which she said was part of a long succession of episodes that turned out to be nothing.

She’s received the backing of most political heavy-hitters, including congressman and 1960s civil-rights activist John Lewis – although Lewis had to walk back a scornful statement about her rival.

More than half the 2,383 delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination will be determined in the 28 states that hold primaries and caucuses in March. Clinton asked a group of African-American women in the audience who had lost children to police action and random gun violence to stand and be recognized.

Clinton responded in more personal terms, saying that white people should be honest and recognize “that our experiences may not equip us to understand what a lot of our African-American fellow citizens go through every single day”. Sanders says, “That led to the Iranian Revolution, and we are where we are today”.

Why is it that these questions continually come up while no one ever asks about how we are going to pay for our wars and overseas military operations? Clinton may not have won Nevada if Reid had not interceded last week when the man feigning neutrality saw what everyone in the Democratic elite saw: Sanders erasing a once mountainous lead and on the verge of perhaps winning Nevada and rendering inoperative the “Hillary is more electable” argument.

The issue is being raised at a timely moment – Clinton is relying on the support of African-Americans to survive a tough challenge from Sen. While the Sanders ground team has a few more days to drum up support here in Palmetto State, the Vermont senator faces steep opposition.

Fergus Cullen, a former chairman of the New Hampshire GOP, said, “You can’t negotiate with terrorists, and that’s what Donald Trump is to the Republican Party”.

“What you are seeing today in this Supreme Court situation is nothing more than the continuous and unprecedented obstructionism that President Obama has gone through”, Sanders said.

On whether racism fueled Trump’s birtherism: “I’m not a psychoanalyst”. Meanwhile, polls show Donald Trump is ahead in the Nevada caucuses for Tuesday. “I am well aware of the drip, drip, drip”, she said.