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| Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders take part in Democratic town hall – live coverage | Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders take part in Democratic town hall – live coverage |
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| 11.49pm GMT | |
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| Sanders has galloped through his speech at the Democratic dinner preceding the forum: | |
| .@BernieSanders just took the stage at the Democratic dinner and said he's going to be "very very brief" bc CNN forum starts at 8! | |
| Sanders gets big cheers for promising to overturn Citizens United & end voter suppression laws | |
| What this campaign is about is creating a political revolution. It is the understanding that no president ...can do it alone. @BernieSanders | |
| Bernie managed to keep it brief! Loud cheers and chants of "Bernie" as @BernieSanders makes a quick exit pic.twitter.com/Izy5TXfhnS | |
| Clinton should be up next there – presumably while Sanders rushes to the CNN event | |
| 11.33pm GMT | |
| 23:33 | |
| Before the forum, Clinton and Sanders are due to speak at a Democratic dinner in Columbus, Ohio. Lauren Gambino is there and earlier ran into Jerry Springer. | |
| Jerry Springer at the Dem dinner in Ohio. Q: What do you think of Trump? A: I try not to. pic.twitter.com/ns0yE4iMwr | |
| 11.29pm GMT | |
| 23:29 | |
| In the comments, dave_damage asks: | |
| Is it possible, or plausable Mrs Clinton would have Mr Sanders as her running mate for the presidency. | |
| There’s only one answer to that: | |
| Bernie Sanders is a G. Can't stop watching this. 😂 pic.twitter.com/FT7Q0hip2x | |
| 11.25pm GMT | |
| 23:25 | |
| David Smith | |
| David Smith reports from Donald Trump’s rally Boca Raton, Florida: | |
| A few protesters waved placards at Trump supporters driving to the waterside amphitheatre in Boca Raton where Trump is due to speak imminently. At least one demonstrator has been removed from the crowd amid chants of “Kick them out!” and “USA! USA!” | |
| Wearing T-shirts and shorts in the evening sunshine, supporters have been instructed – as is standard at Trump rallies – not to touch any protesters but rather to alert security and shout: “Trump! Trump! Trump!” | |
| Speakers so far have included Laura Wilkerson, a Texan who said her son Josh had been murdered by an illegal immigrant and provided a graphic police report of his injuries, describing it as her family’s own 9/11. “If we don’t have a wall, he’ll be right back to do it again,” she told the crowd, saying she wants to give Trump a chance. | |
| Michael Barnett, chairman of the Republican party in Palm Beach County, insisted that he is “absolutely not” worried about violence at the event, where some people are sitting on grass and a long queue formed for hot dogs. “From what I’ve heard from the Trump campaign, they’re on guard and have taken all necessary precautions,” he said. | |
| Asked if Trump’s rhetoric has fuelled the violence, Barnett made an alarming comparison: “I don’t think Donald Trump is responsible for the violence any more than a lady is responsible for being attacked because of how she looks or what she wears.” | |
| The 39-year-old, who as a black conservative described himself as being in a small minority, went on: “I know Trump is known for speaking his mind and that upsets people but it’s no cause for violence. It’s going to be a very exciting election. People have short memories and forget the riots in 1968 at the Democratic convention. We’ll get through this too and we’ll have a peaceful election.” | |
| Others were unconcerned. Debbie Finley, a recruiter and Trump volunteer who knows him personally, said: “I think he will make the country better and help the people back to work. How can you have such beautiful children and not be a great guy?” | |
| Protester disrupts rally. Crowd chants: "Kick them out! Kick them out!" and "USA! USA!" pic.twitter.com/s1yomQKcjk | |
| Dawn Marcus-Greenstein, 56, an accountant, said: “The country has been run into the ground. Everybody’s thinking what he’s saying, the country’s so desperate. The media are doing to him what they did to Howard Hughes because he wasn’t a politician and couldn’t be bought.” | |
| She added: “We need a revolution in this country and he’s the closest thing. He’s not even going to take a salary if he’s president – that’s what I heard, anyway. He’s a businessman and we need a good businessperson. It would be a sad day if he doesn’t get in. If Hillary does, I’ll leave the country. She thinks people are stupid.” | |
| Her friend, Teresa Kinan, 56, a caretaker who moved to the US from Portugal 20 years ago, chimed in: “She really is evil. If people don’t like Donald Trump, they should go home.” | |
| Jeff Janci, 57, a high school teacher wearing a baseball cap with the legend, “Trump. Make America great again”, said: “I think the violence is all ordered by the Republican high order or the Democrats. Trump has said some things he shouldn’t have but we all do that. I think he was just trying to get noticed at the beginning; down the road he’ll tone it down a lot.” | |
| Peter Sage, 66, a retired financial adviser, Clinton supporter and “political tourist”, had come to witness and try to understand. Sage predicted the violent clashes at Trump events would only play into his hands, allowing him to scapegoat the culprits. | |
| “Half a dozen people did something stupid and he gets to have an opponent: not Romney or Cruz or the Pope but a protester. He gets to dump on somebody unappealing. Trump now gets to be the hero of the first amendment. Instead of being a loudmouth buffoon bragging about his penis size, he’s become a spokesperson for free speech and victim.” | |
| 10.53pm GMT | 10.53pm GMT |
| 22:53 | 22:53 |
| Good evening and welcome to tonight’s live blog of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders town hall forum in Columbus, Ohio. Lauren Gambino is on the ground in a rainy Columbus and I’ll be your host live from New York. | Good evening and welcome to tonight’s live blog of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders town hall forum in Columbus, Ohio. Lauren Gambino is on the ground in a rainy Columbus and I’ll be your host live from New York. |
| Some readers who may not previously have felt they had much in common with Donald Trump may have found themselves inadvertently nodding along with the Republican frontrunner when he said earlier this week that there had been too many debates this primary season and there was no need for more. | Some readers who may not previously have felt they had much in common with Donald Trump may have found themselves inadvertently nodding along with the Republican frontrunner when he said earlier this week that there had been too many debates this primary season and there was no need for more. |
| But stick with us. Sanders and Clinton seem to respond fairly well to the town hall setting - in which each is interviewed separately, in this case by CNN’s Jake Tapper and TV One’s Roland Martin - and as Tuesday’s key primaries in Florida, Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina and Missouri approach, both Democratic candidates will be conscious of the extremely high stakes at play. | But stick with us. Sanders and Clinton seem to respond fairly well to the town hall setting - in which each is interviewed separately, in this case by CNN’s Jake Tapper and TV One’s Roland Martin - and as Tuesday’s key primaries in Florida, Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina and Missouri approach, both Democratic candidates will be conscious of the extremely high stakes at play. |
| The leftwing Vermont senator defied the polls to stun the former secretary of state with a win in Michigan on Tuesday that seemed to indicate he had more strength with rust belt voters and northern African Americans than many had assumed. He’ll be hoping to repeat the trick in Ohio and Illinois, states with similar profiles, and tonight sent out an email to supporters trumpeting an NBC/WSJ/Marist poll that showed him just six points behind Clinton in Illinois. In fact, a second poll for CBS News/YouGov puts him two points ahead, a significant reverse given Clinton had double-digit leads there in the four previous polls in the state. | The leftwing Vermont senator defied the polls to stun the former secretary of state with a win in Michigan on Tuesday that seemed to indicate he had more strength with rust belt voters and northern African Americans than many had assumed. He’ll be hoping to repeat the trick in Ohio and Illinois, states with similar profiles, and tonight sent out an email to supporters trumpeting an NBC/WSJ/Marist poll that showed him just six points behind Clinton in Illinois. In fact, a second poll for CBS News/YouGov puts him two points ahead, a significant reverse given Clinton had double-digit leads there in the four previous polls in the state. |
| In Ohio, where tonight’s Democratic town hall will take place, Real Clear Politics gives Clinton an average 17.8 point lead, while in Florida, the biggest and most significant of Tuesday’s primary states, RCP gives the former first lady a 30.9 point lead, and she is up in Missouri and North Carolina too. | In Ohio, where tonight’s Democratic town hall will take place, Real Clear Politics gives Clinton an average 17.8 point lead, while in Florida, the biggest and most significant of Tuesday’s primary states, RCP gives the former first lady a 30.9 point lead, and she is up in Missouri and North Carolina too. |
| (On the Republican side, Ohio governor John Kasich might win his own state, but Trump looks set to sweep the board elsewhere.) | (On the Republican side, Ohio governor John Kasich might win his own state, but Trump looks set to sweep the board elsewhere.) |
| As well as the familiar Democratic debate topics of trade, immigration reform, healthcare and student debt, the candidates are sure to be asked about the ugly turn Trump’s campaign events have taken this week, with violence in St Louis, Chicago, and Fayetteville, North Carolina, and an accusation that Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski manhandled a reporter in Jupiter, Florida. | As well as the familiar Democratic debate topics of trade, immigration reform, healthcare and student debt, the candidates are sure to be asked about the ugly turn Trump’s campaign events have taken this week, with violence in St Louis, Chicago, and Fayetteville, North Carolina, and an accusation that Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski manhandled a reporter in Jupiter, Florida. |
| Sanders issued a statement today after Trump said he would look into paying the legal expenses for the man accused of punching a protester in the Fayetteville incident: “Donald Trump should not be condoning violence by paying the legal fees of a supporter who viciously attacked a protester at one of his rallies. He should tone down his rhetoric and condemn the violence of some of his supporters.” | Sanders issued a statement today after Trump said he would look into paying the legal expenses for the man accused of punching a protester in the Fayetteville incident: “Donald Trump should not be condoning violence by paying the legal fees of a supporter who viciously attacked a protester at one of his rallies. He should tone down his rhetoric and condemn the violence of some of his supporters.” |
| David Smith will be watching the Republican frontrunner tonight at an event in Boca Raton, Florida. | David Smith will be watching the Republican frontrunner tonight at an event in Boca Raton, Florida. |
| At Donald Trump rally in Boca Raton, Florida, a far cry from icy Iowa and New Hampshire. pic.twitter.com/hVEGXKARIP | At Donald Trump rally in Boca Raton, Florida, a far cry from icy Iowa and New Hampshire. pic.twitter.com/hVEGXKARIP |
| The Democratic candidates may also be asked about Barack Obama’s lengthy interview in the Atlantic, during which he set out his foreign policy doctrine in great detail. His caution, particularly in the Middle East, is at times contrasted in the piece with an instinct from Clinton towards taking action. | The Democratic candidates may also be asked about Barack Obama’s lengthy interview in the Atlantic, during which he set out his foreign policy doctrine in great detail. His caution, particularly in the Middle East, is at times contrasted in the piece with an instinct from Clinton towards taking action. |
| Clinton may also be quizzed about her praise for the late Nancy Reagan’s record on Aids, for which the former secretary of state has apologised. “I just don’t know what she was talking about,” Sanders said earlier today. Many gay rights activists view the Reagans as a couple who deliberately turned a blind eye to the Aids crisis, with devastating consequences. | Clinton may also be quizzed about her praise for the late Nancy Reagan’s record on Aids, for which the former secretary of state has apologised. “I just don’t know what she was talking about,” Sanders said earlier today. Many gay rights activists view the Reagans as a couple who deliberately turned a blind eye to the Aids crisis, with devastating consequences. |
| Here’s today’s earlier live blog, if you want to catch up on all the day’s events so far, including a heckler in Florida accusing Marco Rubio of stealing his girlfriend. | Here’s today’s earlier live blog, if you want to catch up on all the day’s events so far, including a heckler in Florida accusing Marco Rubio of stealing his girlfriend. |
| The Democratic town hall begins at 8pm ET on CNN and TV One. Hope you can join us. | The Democratic town hall begins at 8pm ET on CNN and TV One. Hope you can join us. |