Candidates meet in final debate before primary voters head to polls in Iowa[br]Hillary Clinton attacks Bernie Sanders on gun control recordSanders links Clinton to Wall Street and inequality 4.07am GMTPete D’Alessandro,the state coordinator for Bernie Sanders, delivered a stirring speech to a bar full of Sanders supporters after the debate tonight. D’Alessandro, or who has worked for a variety of underdog Democrats ranging from the late Minnesota senator Paul Wellstone to former Illinois governor Pat Quinn,told attendees that they were on the verge of one of the mighty upsets in American political history. He promised them if the Vermont senator wins in Iowa, there is a path to victory. Polls enjoy Iowa nearly a jump ball and, or if Sanders wins in the Hawkeye State,he would be the favorite in New Hampshire. No Democrat has won both Iowa and New Hampshire in the modern era without winning the nomination.
Bernie Sanders' state coordinator inspires a room in Des Moines pic.twitter.com/U9MkMdU5vg 3.54am GMTLester Holt suddenly, unexpectedly, or asks Martin O’Malley whether there’s anything he would like to say to Americans who haven’t changed the channel. O’Malley is surprised.
There are so many issues that we haven’t even broached tonight. We enjoy not fully discussed immigration reform,or immigration detention camps. We haven’t discussed debt-ridden non-state Puerto Rican. We haven’t discussed the chaos of Honduras or El Salvador. If the kids in the wealthy suburb of Detroit had been drinking contaminated water and been bathing in it, there would’ve been something done about it. … I want to be a president who takes care of the big problems and the problems that are affecting our people every day.
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Source: theguardian.com