Clinton says she can beat Donald Trump in Michigan Debate

We all are aware of the heat going on in the presidential race. Two Democratic presidential contenders Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton sparred in a debate on Sunday over who had the best chance to beat Republican
front-runner Donald Trump, and mocked the level of
discourse in the Republican White House race.
Near the end of a Michigan debate that featured sharp
clashes over trade and the auto industry bailout, as well as a
lengthy discussion of religion, Clinton and Sanders both said
they could not wait to face the brash billionaire in the Nov.
8 election to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama.
"I think Donald Trump's bigotry, his bullying, his bluster, are
not going to wear well on the American people," Clinton
said. "We have to end the divisiveness, we have to unify
the country."
Sanders said he would "love" to run against Trump and
noted many opinion polls showed him faring better against
him than Clinton did. He and Clinton urged voters to
compare the substance of their debate with the Republican
versions, which last week featured name-calling and Trump
defending his penis size.
"We are, if elected president, going to invest a lot of
money in mental health," Sanders said, then cracked a joke.
"And when you watch these Republican debates, you know
why we need to invest in mental health."
Trump frequently says he will beat either Clinton or
Sanders. "I am the one person that she does not want to
run against," he said of Clinton on Saturday.
The debate in Flint, which is suffering a water
contamination and public health crisis, came as Sanders has
struggled to slow Clinton's march to the presidential
nomination. Sanders picked up some good news on Sunday
with a projected win in Maine's caucus.
Clinton, 68, a former secretary of state and first lady, has
spoken on the campaign trail of the need for more love and
kindness, a contrast to Trump's rhetoric about his plans to
deport illegal immigrants and temporarily bar Muslims from
entering the country.
"I don't intend to get into the gutter with whoever they
nominate, but instead to lift our sights," Clinton said in
the debate.
Describing herself as a "praying person," she said it was
hard to imagine living under the pressure of the White
House "without being able to fall back on prayer and on my
faith."
Sanders, asked if he was deliberately keeping his Jewish
faith in the background on the campaign trail, said his
father's family was wiped out in the Holocaust. He
described going shopping with his mother as a boy in
Brooklyn, New York, and seeing people with numbers on
their arms from Nazi concentration camps.
"I am very proud of being Jewish, and that is an essential
part of who I am as a human being," Sanders said.
'DISASTROUS' TRADE POLICIES
Earlier, the two candidates exchanged angry jabs over trade,
with Sanders accusing Clinton of backing "disastrous" trade
policies that moved manufacturing jobs out of cities like
Flint and Detroit and shifted them overseas.
But Clinton said Sanders' opposition to the 2009 auto
bailout, a crucial issue in a state that is home to the U.S.
auto industry, would have cost millions of jobs. The bailout,
which Clinton supported, passed Congress and has been
credited with helping save the U.S. industry.
Sanders, 74 a U.S. senator from Vermont and democratic
socialist, also questioned the sincerity of Clinton's
conversion to opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a
proposed 12-nation Pacific Rim trade deal.
The two contenders cut each other off on several occasions,
a rare occurrence in a race that has been much more polite
than the raucous Republican presidential campaign.
"Excuse me, I'm talking," Sanders said to Clinton when she
tried to interrupt. "If you're going to talk, tell the whole
story," Clinton responded.
Sanders pressed his charge that Clinton was too close to
Wall Street and demanded again that she release the
transcript of paid speeches she has given to Wall Street
firms. Clinton said she would release them when all the
candidates, including Republicans, also release transcripts of similar talks.