Bernie Sanders’ campaign team is pushing back hard on Hillary Clinton’s past support for returning undocumented, unaccompanied minors to their native countries:
It is appalling that @HillaryClinton insisted that minors be shipped back to their country of origin like a package marked return to sender.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 12, 2016
The moderators handed an impossible question over to Sanders and Clinton early in the night, which basically amounted to a charge to calm scared white people down without sounding racist. Ready? Go!
The solution to their racially loaded question for both candidates was to be very, very boring. And it worked! Clinton did a good job of diffusing the racial tension from the question by talking about how many white communities are also being affected by poverty, while Sanders pivoted to his favorite topic: how this all comes back to the economy. “We can talk about it as a racial issue, but really it’s an economic issue,” he began.
And poof! Just like that, Sanders had an excuse to give his stump speech.
Fun fact from last week’s New Hampshire primaries: Bernie Sanders got nearly 16 times as many votes as Jim Gilmore among Republican presidential primary voters in New Hampshire.
You read that right: The Republican presidential primary.
Just like last week, Ohio governor John Kasich is a one-man livetweeting party:
John Kasich said NO to an Obamacare state exchange. He will repeal and replace Obamacare as president. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/wWjdiSNSis
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) February 12, 2016
As president @JohnKasich will return power, money & influence to the states. How? https://t.co/rvquDJzq9w #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/rmV1OHvLqR
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) February 12, 2016
John Kasich doesn't just talk prison reform. His team has done it and made Ohio a national model of success.https://t.co/wfhg3CjNjK
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) February 12, 2016
Vocativ managing editor Ben Reininga asked on Twitter how many prisoners the US would have to free to make our prison population not the largest in the world.
How many people would Bernie to flat-out free in four years to make US jail population not the biggest? Like a million? #DemDebate
— Ben Reininga (@BenReininga) February 12, 2016
According to the World Prison Brief (which the Washington Post uses to rate claims about our comparative prison population size as true), releasing about 559,000 people currently incarcerated would reduce the number of prisoners in the US to the point that we had fewer people incarcerated than China does. We’d have to release about 2m to get down to Mexico incarceration levels.
“Not only do African Americans and Latinos face the general economic crises of low wages and high unemployment and poor educational opportunities,” but they face systemic racial obstacles to economic success as well, Sanders says, before redirecting the line of inquiry to general economic inequality.
Bernie Sanders addresses what he calls the hypocrisy of Republican fixation on small government and women’s reproductive choice:
“The African American community lost half of their wealth as a result of the Wall Street collapse,” Sanders says, on race issues. “Clearly we are looking at institutional racism.”
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