Bad bad, Bernie. You'd better talk nice to the very important lady,
or she will not talk to you.
Now Clinton is sounding as silly as Donald Trump. She thinks she gets
to establish the level of nice talk? Wait until she comes up against
Trump or Cruz.
Reading between the lines, I think Clinton is afraid she will not have
good answers.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/28/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No NY Debate, says Clinton Campaign, Until Sanders Changes His 'Tone'
Following landslide victories on Saturday in Washington, Alaska, and
Hawaii,
Sanders looks ahead to contests in Wisconsin, New York, and beyond
by
Jon Queally, staff writer, Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
"I would hope very much that as we go into New York state, Secretary
Clinton's home state, that we will have a debate - New York City or
Upstate,
wherever - on the important issues facing New York and, in fact, the
country," Sanders said on Sunday. (Photo: AP)
Update: 3:30 EDT
Hillary Clinton's chief campaign strategist has dodged Bernie Sanders' call
for a debate before the April 19 primary in New York, saying the former
secretary of state's response depends on whether the Vermont senator
changes
his "tone."
"This is a man who said he'd never run a negative ad ever. He's now running
them. They're planning to run more," Clinton operative Joel Benenson said
Monday on CNN. "Let's see the tone of the campaign he wants to run before
we
get to any other questions."
Asked what the risk is to debating Sanders in New York, Benenson replied
that there is "no risk" for Clinton but that Sanders "doesn't get to
decide"
the schedule.
"She's done very well in the debates. The debates have been very good, but
Sen. Sanders doesn't get to decide when we debate, particularly when he's
running a very negative campaign against us," he said. "Let's see if he
goes
back to the kind of tone he said he was going to set early on. If he does
that, then we'll talk about debates."
"So no chance of a New York debate?" CNN's Kate Bolduan reportedly pressed.
"I didn't say that," Benenson said. "I said we're going to see what kind of
tone he sets."
Earlier...
With the momentum in Bernie Sanders' favor following a triple victory in
the
'Pacific Primary' over the weekend-beating rival Hillary Clinton by
landslide margins in Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii-his campaign thinks
it's
time to treat voters in upcoming states to something they haven't seen in
nearly three weeks: a televised debate.
With the next primary in Wisconsin on April 5th followed by the Wyoming
caucus on April 9th, the Sanders campaign is now calling for a televised
debate with Clinton in New York sometime prior to that large state's
primary
on April 19th.
Appearing on Meet The Press with Chuck Todd on Sunday, Sanders said that
potential voters in New York and beyond should be allowed to hear from the
candidates before the next wave of voting. "I would hope very much that as
we go into New York state, Secretary Clinton's home state, that we will
have
a debate - New York City or Upstate, wherever - on the important issues
facing New York and, in fact, the country," Sanders said.
Asked by the New York Times on Sunday, a Clinton campaign spokesperson
declined to comment about the debate proposal.
Watch:
Later on Sunday, Sanders' campaign manager Jeff Weaver sent a letter (pdf)
to his counterpart in the Clinton campaign, Robby Mook, laying out the
argument for why a debate would be in the best interest of voters and
reminding Mook that the two campaigns had agreed to "three additional
debates - one in March, one in April, one in May - in return for our
campaign agreeing to the late scheduled debate in New Hampshire prior to
that state's primary."
The letter continued:
As Alex Garafolo explains at the International Business Times, there's
nothing politically surprising about Sanders wanting to put all his chips
on
the table ahead of the New York contest:
In the April 19 primary there are 247 delegates at stake. While the
delegates in the primary are allocated proportionally, a decisive win in
the
state could either bring Sanders near even with (or even ahead of) Clinton,
while a Clinton win would effectively end Sanders chances of winning the
nomination. Clinton currently holds double digit leads in the latest polls
of likely voters in the state. Sanders hopes a debate in the state could
turn those numbers around.
To that end, the Sanders campaign has made no secret that it is gearing up
for an aggressive drive for New York votes. "To capitalize on his fresh
momentum," the Washington Post reports on Monday, "Sanders plans an
aggressive push in New York, modeled after his come-from-behind victory a
few weeks ago in Michigan. He intends to barnstorm the state as if he were
running for governor. His advisers, spoiling for a brawl, have commissioned
polls to show which contrasts with Clinton - from Wall Street to fracking -
could do the most damage to her at home."
And as Tad Devine, one of Sanders' top strategists, explained to the Post,
"We'll be the underdog, but being the underdog in New York is not the worst
situation in politics. We're going to make a real run for it."
The last head-to-head debate between Clinton and Sanders was held on March
9th in Miami, Florida.
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No NY Debate, says Clinton Campaign, Until Sanders Changes His 'Tone'
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by
Common Dreams
No NY Debate, says Clinton Campaign, Until Sanders Changes His 'Tone'
Following landslide victories on Saturday in Washington, Alaska, and
Hawaii,
Sanders looks ahead to contests in Wisconsin, New York, and beyond
by
Jon Queally, staff writer, Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
. 86 Comments
. "I would hope very much that as we go into New York state, Secretary
Clinton's home state, that we will have a debate - New York City or
Upstate,
wherever - on the important issues facing New York and, in fact, the
country," Sanders said on Sunday. (Photo: AP)
. Update: 3:30 EDT
. Hillary Clinton's chief campaign strategist has dodged Bernie
Sanders' call for a debate before the April 19 primary in New York, saying
the former secretary of state's response depends on whether the Vermont
senator changes his "tone."
. "This is a man who said he'd never run a negative ad ever. He's now
running them. They're planning to run more," Clinton operative Joel
Benenson
said Monday on CNN. "Let's see the tone of the campaign he wants to run
before we get to any other questions."
. Asked what the risk is to debating Sanders in New York, Benenson
replied that there is "no risk" for Clinton but that Sanders "doesn't get
to
decide" the schedule.
. "She's done very well in the debates. The debates have been very
good, but Sen. Sanders doesn't get to decide when we debate, particularly
when he's running a very negative campaign against us," he said. "Let's see
if he goes back to the kind of tone he said he was going to set early on.
If
he does that, then we'll talk about debates."
"So no chance of a New York debate?" CNN's Kate Bolduan reportedly pressed.
"I didn't say that," Benenson said. "I said we're going to see what kind of
tone he sets."
Earlier...
With the momentum in Bernie Sanders' favor following a triple victory in
the
'Pacific Primary' over the weekend-beating rival Hillary Clinton by
landslide margins in Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii-his campaign thinks
it's
time to treat voters in upcoming states to something they haven't seen in
nearly three weeks: a televised debate.
With the next primary in Wisconsin on April 5th followed by the Wyoming
caucus on April 9th, the Sanders campaign is now calling for a televised
debate with Clinton in New York sometime prior to that large state's
primary
on April 19th.
Appearing on Meet The Press with Chuck Todd on Sunday, Sanders said that
potential voters in New York and beyond should be allowed to hear from the
candidates before the next wave of voting. "I would hope very much that as
we go into New York state, Secretary Clinton's home state, that we will
have
a debate - New York City or Upstate, wherever - on the important issues
facing New York and, in fact, the country," Sanders said.
Asked by the New York Times on Sunday, a Clinton campaign spokesperson
declined to comment about the debate proposal.
Watch:
Later on Sunday, Sanders' campaign manager Jeff Weaver sent a letter (pdf)
to his counterpart in the Clinton campaign, Robby Mook, laying out the
argument for why a debate would be in the best interest of voters and
reminding Mook that the two campaigns had agreed to "three additional
debates - one in March, one in April, one in May - in return for our
campaign agreeing to the late scheduled debate in New Hampshire prior to
that state's primary."
The letter continued:
As Alex Garafolo explains at the International Business Times, there's
nothing politically surprising about Sanders wanting to put all his chips
on
the table ahead of the New York contest:
In the April 19 primary there are 247 delegates at stake. While the
delegates in the primary are allocated proportionally, a decisive win in
the
state could either bring Sanders near even with (or even ahead of) Clinton,
while a Clinton win would effectively end Sanders chances of winning the
nomination. Clinton currently holds double digit leads in the latest polls
of likely voters in the state. Sanders hopes a debate in the state could
turn those numbers around.
To that end, the Sanders campaign has made no secret that it is gearing up
for an aggressive drive for New York votes. "To capitalize on his fresh
momentum," the Washington Post reports on Monday, "Sanders plans an
aggressive push in New York, modeled after his come-from-behind victory a
few weeks ago in Michigan. He intends to barnstorm the state as if he were
running for governor. His advisers, spoiling for a brawl, have commissioned
polls to show which contrasts with Clinton - from Wall Street to fracking -
could do the most damage to her at home."
And as Tad Devine, one of Sanders' top strategists, explained to the Post,
"We'll be the underdog, but being the underdog in New York is not the worst
situation in politics. We're going to make a real run for it."
The last head-to-head debate between Clinton and Sanders was held on March
9th in Miami, Florida.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
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