Hillary Clinton sat down for an interview with Jake Tapper yesterday that aired on State of the Union this morning. The questions that came up and her responses appear in the banners beneath the photos.
What is probably most striking about the past several days is how Hillary is being closely associated with the legacy of the Clinton Administration. She revisited both her words from back then and her husband’s legacy by asserting that you do not simply put a policy into practice, turn your back, and walk away. You go back and assess the effects over time and make changes as necessary.
She pointed out that Senator Sanders regularly faults both the Clinton and the Obama Administrations without ever calling out the George W. Bush Administration.
Hillary explained her $12 federal minimum wage floor by way of local economies. As a person who was once responsible for payrolls in five different states, I can attest that a single salary base for the same job across the nation actually amounts to unequal pay for equal work. Hillary has long stood for equal pay and said she supports the $12 minimum but encourages a higher minimum where it can be supported, but she also pointed out that, with an eye toward economic stability, the recent increases are being phased in.
Hillary is optimistic about the progress she is making in the primaries and expects to get to the 2383 before the convention. She steadfastly maintained that she would prefer a Sanders White House to a Trump or Cruz White House, but she does not expect a contest on the convention floor.
Bernie Sanders told Tapper that he “is not sure what kind of president she [Hillary] would make.” Dems fightin’ words, Mr. Senator! He told George Stephanopulos on This Week a little later that he will take the fight to the convention because he brings in many more Independents. Great! Not sure Democrats will go for that argument.
On another note, Bernie keeps accusing the Clinton campaign of politicizing the Sandy Hook massacre. Just to be clear on that, it was the families who prevailed upon him for an apology, not Hillary’s campaign. When he held his line, family member, as voting citizens, their support to Hillary whose agenda more closely exemplifies theirs. Just saying. See this.
And the beat goes on.
Hillary CLEARLY said she expects to be nominated. YES!!!!!
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Obama on the email investigation..
https://twitter.com/sumohan7/status/719187983539310592
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St Bernard is still running this BS message that he’ll have more pledged delegates by the time the convention opens in Philly. Go figure. Clearly the math is something he and his followers are ignoring, which is aggravating beyond words, particularly when St Bernard continues to question what sort of president Hillary Clinton would make.
100% better than you, Senator!!
Yes, the beat goes on and on and . . .
Ugh.
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A simple analysis would show him that his acceleration rate is all gone. He expected otherwise, but WY was his true-est test case on this. This ‘qualified?’ thing was a real puddle in which he got himself into and the more he dances, more mud gets on him bec all he does is make himself look LESS mature, LESS presidential.. HRC is not falling into any traps no matter how many times/ways she is asked such questions. She has stayed above the fray and look VERY PRESIDENTIAL!!!! 🙂
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Sam, I also just saw on Twitter that Dan Balz said today that Hillary actually has closer to 600 super delegates lined up, which is great news. Like Elijah Cummings, they’ll start coming with their endorsements, I imagine.
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Yes, he did. It was a good dialog segment. https://t.co/FB8eWaF1Hn
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Bernie Sanders’ Bizarre Idea of Fair Trade
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/04/05/bernie_sanders_is_the_developing_world_s_worst_nightmare.html
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I wonder how many of these “independents” who support Sanders have no intention of doing so in the GE but are voting for him in the primary in order to stop Hillary. Or how many would still support him once the GOP got through evisceraring him with ads.
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There is definitely some infilteration from the Right. The amount of vile bile that’s flowing from BernieBros couldnt possibly be all from the Left… It’s just cruel, vicious and occasionally, I’ve seen threatening (like today against Jonathan Capehart @CapehartJ who faced threatening remark right on twitter feed simply because he had opined in a way that suggested he is pro-Hillary (and he is an opinionator i.e., paid to give his informed opinion/perspective)…
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