Sanders praises Clinton for populist debate answers on taxes, trade and wages

[molova]

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Source: Washington Post

Even as Hillary Clinton was pronounced the winner of the first presidential debate, pundits rated its first 15 minutes as a win for Donald Trump. The day after, the initial Trump-Clinton exchanges about trade and taxes largely vanished from the discussion, as Clinton's campaign made former Miss Universe Alicia Machado available for interviews on how Trump had shamed her for gaining weight.

But for Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), Clinton's opening answers were the start of a promising, populist case against Trump, the kind he had tried to make throughout the Democratic primaries.

"I've said for a long time that the media focuses too much on personality," Sanders said. "I think what Clinton tried to do last night was focus on Trump’s trickle-down economic theory. If you repeal the estate tax, as Trump wants to do, the Trump family itself gets a $5 billion tax break. The Walton family gets a $50 billion tax break."



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[longship]

1. Bernie is doing the best!

Although he labels himself as an independent, he has universally aligned himself as a Democrat.

[dae]

2. Bernie is right and if anyone can bring back some

millenials it will be him talking up Clinton and her shift to more progressive views on colllege tuition, minimum wages, etc.

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. I hope former Bernie supporters realize, as adults, it really shouldn't be only up to Bernie to con-

vince them to vote for the best candidate.

(And I don't mean either of the other two losers in the race.)

[George II]

5. This is not "latest breaking news" - it is opinion and it was posted beyond the 12-hour deadline.

[ColemanMaskell]

7. Thanks for reminding me to go straight to "Latest Threads" and not stop here . . .

[molova]

8. Overruled nt

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. The window is getting smaller

Right after the debate the consensus was that Trump dominated the first 29 minutes of the debate. This article cuts that amount nearly in half to 15 minutes. Soon we'll be in negative numbers.

[In_The_Wind]

9. Locking. However this OP is perfect for GD or GD:2016. Please re-post it there.

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