What Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton need to do to win SC

“All over this country we have Republican candidates for president saying we hate the government”, he said.

After South Carolina on February 27, the presidential race accelerates with 28 states voting in rapid succession in March, including 11 states on March 1 and big prizes such as Ohio, Florida and IL on March 15. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton participate in Thursday night’s debate in Milwaukee.

Last week Michael Briggs, Sanders’ campaign spokesman, defended the book blurb during an interview with CNN. “When we talk about criminal justice reform we also have to talk about jobs, education, housing and other ways of helping communities of colour”, she said. This has led to speculation that moderators Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff will ask more thoughtful and in-depth lines of questioning than we have heard during previous debates. And the candidates have talked about these issues before. “More importantly, they may not make it”, he said.

“And aligned with a corrupt campaign finance system is a rigged economy”.

“Nobody can deny that as a wartime leader, he rallied the British people when they stood virtually alone against the Nazi juggernaut and rallied them and eventually won an extraordinary victory”, he said.

Later, he and Clinton agreed about reforming sentencing, reducing prison populations, and ending for-profit prisons. He didn’t go into detail about how he would do it.

Meanwhile, Jason Babcock, who entered the debate party as an undecided, says he may have been swayed by Sanders.

“Based on every analysis that I can find by people who are sympathetic to the goal, the numbers don’t add up and many people will be worse off than they are right now”, Clinton said. Clinton sounded prepared and looked commanding, as she normally does in debates.

According to Sanders, race relations would improve during his presidential administration, even compared to Obama. “Absolutely”, he said, arguing that he would create “millions of jobs for low-income kids” and thus help alleviate racial inequalities. “I will do everything I can to make certain that the United States and our courageous men and women in the military do not get bogged down in perpetual warfare in the Middle East”, he said. It turned out to be Clinton’s strength in the first half of Thursday night’s debate. The Vermont senator touted the “enormous progress” the president has made in the face of Republican obstructionism. “What would motivate me and what would be the guiding light for me in terms of immigration reform…is to bring families together, not divide them up”.

After losing women in two contests, Clinton still couldn’t articulate why they or the youths didn’t want to vote for her (she lost voters ages 18-29 by giant margins in Iowa and New Hampshire) and seemed intent on painting Sanders as some sort of Pied Piper leading all the millennials away with his promises of free college.

When Sanders challenged Clinton on her acceptance of campaign contributions from Wall Street, Clinton used Obama as a shield, noting that he had received a large amount of campaign cash from the financial sector but still pushed for the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul bill, passed in 2010.

The Democrats are debating for the sixth time tonight, and after two states have voted, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders arrive in Milwaukee in a position virtually no one would have predicted a year ago-essentially tied.

“One of us ran against Barack Obama – I was not that candidate”, Sanders said. Hours later, the Associated Press reported that Clinton’s allies were setting up a so-called dark money group “aimed at expanding voter protection efforts and driving turnout and registration among Latino and black voters”.

Sanders ripped Clinton for calling Kissinger a “friend”, saying he was “one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the history of this country” for his role in the Vietnam War. But taken from a slightly less cynical viewpoint, a renewed focus on issues that matter to minorities is a positive development.