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Saturday 13 February 2016
Candidates focus on
South Carolina and
crucial minority vote
The Associated Press Obama gone far enough
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Demo-
crats Hillary Clinton and Ber- in his policies?
nie Sanders were reaching
out to the key black and Clinton, who has cast her-
Latino vote on Friday af-
ter a debate that marked self as the rightful heir to
a campaign shift toward
states with more minor- Obama’s legacy, accused
ity voters. Most candidates
from both parties were fo- Sanders of diminishing the
cusing on South Carolina,
whose primaries later this president’s record. Sand-
month begin the critical
race for southern voters. ers has suggested Obama
Republicans crisscrossed
South Carolina looking to hadn’t succeeded in clos-
derail billionaire Donald
Trump and Texas Sen. Ted ing the gap between
Cruz, who each came to
the state with a burst of Congress and the Ameri-
momentum after the first
two nomination contests. can people — something
In March’s primary sched-
ule alone, 58 percent of Obama has acknowl- Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, right, speaks during a Faith and Family
the Republican Party’s del- Presidential Forum at Bob Jones University, Friday, Feb. 12, 2016, in Greenville, S.C.
egate total will be at stake. edged.
CBS said that all of the re- (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
maining major Republi- “The kind of criticism I
can candidates will be on
stage for their next debate hear from Senator Sand-
Saturday night in South
Carolina. ers, I expect from Repub-
Participating will be Trump,
Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco licans. I do not expect it
Rubio, former Florida Gov.
Jeb Bush, Dr. Ben Carson from someone seeking the
and Ohio Gov. John Ka-
sich. Democratic nomination,”
Bush on Friday defended
his decision to bring his Clinton said.
brother, former President
George W. Bush, to South Sanders responded by not-
Carolina to help him cam-
paign. Bush told ABC it ing that Clinton ran against
wasn’t a sign of despera-
tion, as Trump has suggest- Obama in the 2008 presi-
ed.
The race for both par- dential race.
ties turns now to Nevada,
South Carolina and other Long viewed as the over-
more diverse states includ-
ing Alabama, Georgia, whelming front-runner
Tennessee, Arkansas and
Texas. in the Democratic race,
In Thursday’s debate, the
Democratic rivals were Clinton has been caught
animated on a fundamen-
tal question facing their off-guard by Sanders’ con-
party: has President Barack
nection with Americans
frustrated by the current
political and economic
systems. The former secre-
tary of state’s connections
to Wall Street have given
Sanders an easy way to link
her to his call for a “revolu-
tion.”
Clinton’s campaign has
argued that the Vermont
senator’s appeal is mostly
limited to the white, liberal
voters who gave Sanders a
win in New Hampshire and
a close second-place finish
in Iowa.
Seeking to boost his sup-
port with minorities, Sand-
ers called for reforms to
a “broken criminal justice
system” that incarcerates
a disproportionate number
of minorities.
Clinton concurred on a
need to address a criminal
justice system, but she cast
her proposals for fighting
racial inequality as broader
than his.q
