Charts Show Why Immigration Dominated the Democratic Debate

Clinton, who is the Democratic Party’s frontrunner, also accused Sanders of focusing his economic attacks on the past Democratic presidents, rather than former Republican president George W. Bush.

Sanders and front-runner Hillary Clinton debated Wednesday night in Florida, which has its presidential primary next Tuesday.

Clinton holds a sizable lead in Florida, according to a RealClearPolitics average of recent polls showing her more than 31 percentage points ahead, but the pre-primary polls in MI also showed her with a healthy lead.

Coming off an important primary win in MI, the stakes were high for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as he sparred with rival Hillary Clinton in Miami Wednesday night. While people were convinced then-Cuban president Fidel Castro was “the worst guy in the world”, he said in the video, they forgot that he “educated their kids, gave them health care, totally transformed their society”.

Sanders said that he had opposed the bill because of provisions on guest workers that would have kept them in working conditions he called “akin to slavery”. She has routinely been accused by Vermont Sen.

Sanders hit back: “I am risky for Wall Street”.

Senator Sanders responded he did not believe Americans would elect a president who insults Mexicans, Muslims, women, African Americans, and immigrants.

“We’re planning a massive get-out-the-vote operation”, said Cheri Johansen, a volunteer who runs a Sanders phone bank in Oakland, where about 30 people were calling voters across the country when TV networks called the MI race. While Sanders’ response was brief and unequivocal-“No, I do not support fracking”-Clinton’s required a bit more explanation”. Clinton bashed Sanders for opposing a 2007 immigration bill.

Clinton and Sanders both courted the Latino vote, expressing support for comprehensive immigration reforms. She said she did not send or receive any emails marked classified at the time, noting the emails were marked classified retroactively.

“We are going to continue to do extremely well, ” he said, adding that he expects to convince superdelegates who are backing Clinton to switch to his column.

Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said after the debate that the moderators “threw a lot at her and she batted it right back”, but that “I would have hoped that there would have been more emphasis in the questions on what we need to do to improve the economy, what we need to do to get jobs growing, what we need to do to invest in small business and clean energy”.

Sanders also chastised Clinton for misrepresenting her vote for a federal bailout of the auto industry.

Democrats hope, of course, that having Donald Trump or Ted Cruz on the top of the Republican ticket will help them down the ballot. “I’m not even going to answer that question”. Wisconsin holds a pivotal primary on April 5 and Weaver said the campaign was preparing for a “big showdown” in New York’s April 19 primary, which would pit Sanders against Clinton in the state she represented in the Senate for eight years.

“But if you are asking about everyone who is already here, undocumented immigrants, the 11-12 million who are living here, my priorities are to deport violent criminals, terrorists, and anyone who threatens our safety”, Clinton said. Mind you, these two Democrats actually support comprehensive immigration reform.

Clinton appeared to be startled when Univision’s Jorge Ramos asked her if she would drop out of the race if indicted over the handling of her email while secretary of state. She mocked Trump’s plan to build what she called a “very tall wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border.