Clinton: My rival’s promises don’t add up
Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters at a debate watching party on February 4, 2016 in Durham, New Hampshire. Mr Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary for the Democratic and Republican parties respectively. PHOTO | MATTHEW CAVANAUGH |
What you need to know:
- The nearly two-hour debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham comes five days before the state votes in the first primary of the 2016 election race, after Clinton clinched the narrowest victory in Iowa caucus history against Sanders on Monday.
- While most expect Clinton to ultimately secure her party’s nomination, she faces a much steeper uphill climb than once imagined as the 74-year-old senator from Vermont whips up passionate support among young voters - earning him a double-digit poll lead in neighbouring New Hampshire.
- In their first one-on-one duel, the former secretary of state made a play to woo Sanders’s fan base by presenting herself as a battle-hardened progressive who would improve the lives of struggling Americans - and whose experience made her far better suited to the job.
DURHAM, Friday
Hillary Clinton mounted a sharp attack on White House rival Bernie Sanders, accusing her Democratic challenger of waging a smear campaign and warning his promises of revolution “don’t add up.”
The nearly two-hour debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham comes five days before the state votes in the first primary of the 2016 election race, after Clinton clinched the narrowest victory in Iowa caucus history against Sanders on Monday.
While most expect Clinton to ultimately secure her party’s nomination, she faces a much steeper uphill climb than once imagined as the 74-year-old senator from Vermont whips up passionate support among young voters - earning him a double-digit poll lead in neighbouring New Hampshire.
PROGRESSIVE
In their first one-on-one duel, the former secretary of state made a play to woo Sanders’s fan base by presenting herself as a battle-hardened progressive who would improve the lives of struggling Americans - and whose experience made her far better suited to the job.
“Senator Sanders and I share some very big progressive goals,” she said.
“But the numbers just don’t add up from what he has been proposing.”
Sanders hammered home his opposition to “the corrosive power of Wall Street on American democracy.
He insisted Clinton could not claim to be both a moderate and a progressive.
