Clinton, Trump battle on Twitter
That’s why I know Hillary will be so good at it.
Meanwhile, Democrats are coalescing around Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid and looking to reunite the party through a carefully orchestrated plan aimed at nudging rival Bernie Sanders aside.
The key difference: African-Americans sided overwhelmingly with the victor of 2008 and 2016 nominations, with black voters across the South and in heavily Democratic cities fueling key wins and delegate advantages in the drawn-out primary contests.
The Senator, a staunch critic of Wall Street, was once considered a potential primary challenger to Ms Clinton, and had declined to endorse either the former Secretary of State or her progressive challenger, Bernie Sanders, until now. Elizabeth Warren. The Harvard law professor and inventor of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to make her big announcement tonight on the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC.
“I’m with her”, Obama said in a video released by the Clinton campaign after Sanders met with Obama at the White House - and before the Vermont senator huddled with Biden at his residence. Sanders had been given a heads-up and took it in stride. Sanders came prepared with his statement.
She finally clinched the nomination just days ago. Warren’s lack of an endorsement during most of the primary could be construed a lot of ways, but not as something she did out of loyalty to Clinton.
Clinton explained that she agreed to support the bankruptcy bill in return for a provision that would protect the rights of women receiving child support if their spouse went into bankruptcy. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said a few hours later on CNN, “Nothing has been scheduled yet”.
In her speech, Warren called Trump a “loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud who has never risked anything for anyone and who serves no one but himself”. “I’ve seen her judgment, toughness, and commitment to our values up close”, he said, adding, “And I’ve seen her determination to give every American a fair shot at opportunity, no matter how tough the fight - that’s what’s always driven her, and still does”. “They just want Donald to quit being so vulgar and obvious about it”, Warren said. Clinton’s California campaign used that time to aggressively target people likely to vote by mail, who already skew toward Clinton because they tend to be older and frequent voters.
“It’s driving him crazy” remaining on the sidelines, the source said. But numerous millennial women supporting Bernie Sanders weren’t celebrating this week. “Warren held her current beliefs about ensuring votes for all nominees when her party was engaged in serial and unprecedented filibusters against women and minorities during the Bush administration, she kept them to herself”. Clinton in a primary campaign. “Lawyers! Aides! Advisers! No presidential candidate has ever been as defended as Hillary Clinton”, claimed Sarah Ellison in Vanity Fair in November, arguing that such a team could be her downfall.
Iliana Jaime, a high school senior in D.C. who identifies as a socialist, thinks Clinton is motivated more by corporate interests than altruistic ones.
For many, Clinton - the former first lady, secretary of state and U.S. senator - is the epitome of a political establishment that has failed the people.
“Her policies will be a crushing blow to all poor people in this country”, he said.