2016 Postmortem

riversedge

(70,093 posts) Fri Mar 18, 2016, 02:30 PM Mar 2016

Clinton camp critical of Sanders immigration policy ---in AZ....

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=Bernie+Sanders+walks+out+of+interview&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001

Bernie Sanders to Sheriff Arpaio: 'Watch out, Joe'
Rebekah L. Sanders, The Arizona Republic 6:39 a.m. EDT March 18, 2016

AP DEM 2016 SANDERS A ELN USA AZ

(Photo: Ricardo Arduengo, AP)

PHOENIX — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ripped into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio at a rally in northern Arizona on Thursday, after facing criticism from the Clinton campaign for an encounter Sanders’ wife had with the immigration-hardliner sheriff.

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Sanders’ challenge to Arpaio, harsher than his stump speech at a Tuesday rally in Phoenix, comes after Arizona supporters of Hillary Clinton have come down on the anti-establishment candidate for his immigration stances.

They have criticized Sanders for voting in 2006 for an amendment that would expand lengthy detentions of some undocumented immigrants.

And other Clinton supporters, including U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., have called the Sanders campaign visit on Monday to Arpaio’s infamous outdoor detention center, Tent City,

“The Sanders campaign played into one the easiest and most damaging cliches in Arizona politics: going to Sheriff Joe Arpaio to get news coverage,” Gallego, a longtime sheriff foe, said in a Facebook statement. "... Attempting to 'confront' Arpaio in front of news cameras only gives him what he wants. Like Donald Trump, Joe Arpaio is fueled by controversy played out over surface-level, sensationalized news coverage. … If the Sanders campaign is serious about winning over Latino voters in Arizona, they need to take a less naïve approach to expressing their candidate’s policies.”......................