that failed the city’s citizens
in the first place.
“I will make sure as
president that I double and
triple check,” Clinton said.
“I will work with elected
officials who I trust, like
your mayor and like your
senators and member of
Congress, so that we can
assure you that when it’s
fixed, you can trust it. You
deserve nothing less.”
Apart from Flint,
Sunday’s debate leaned
heavily on policy issues
facing Michigan specifi-
cally — including the 2009
auto bailout, the deteriorating state
of Detroit Public Schools and trade
deals like NAFTA that critics, such as
Sanders, say hurt the state’s automo-
tive industry.
While Sanders hit Clinton for her
support of trade deals that he said cost
places like Detroit and Flint millions
of jobs, the former secretary of state
attacked the Vermont senator for his
vote against a package that included
bailout money for the auto industry.
Sanders said he voted against the
package because it also included pro-
visions to bail out some of the coun-
try’s biggest banks.
Throughout the debate, both can-
didates vowed to keep Flint at the
forefront, even after the debate lights
dimmed.

ber at the Democratic debate in Flint:
“Sen. Sanders, do you believe that
God is relevant?”
And, as in the past, the senator
articulated a conception of faith root-
ed in the Golden Rule and the idea
that “we are in this together.”
“Well, I think … well, the answer
is yes, and I think when we talk
about God whether it is Christianity
or Judaism or Islam or Buddhism,
what we are talking about is what all
religions hold dear. And, that is to do
unto others as you would like them
to do unto you. I am here tonight …
because I believe morally and ethically
we do not have a right to turn our
backs on children in Flint, Michigan,
who are being poisoned or veterans
who are sleeping out on the street.”
Recently, a handful of Jewish lead-
ers have said they are disappointed by
what they say has been Sanders’ intent
to keep his Jewish faith in the back-
ground. CNN moderator Anderson
Cooper raised that criticism Sunday.
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“I think the legitimate fear of the
people of Flint is that at a certain
point the TV cameras and CNN will
disappear … And people are going to
be left struggling in order to live in a
safe and healthy community,” Sanders
said.
Many of the campaigns’ surrogates
echoed similar messages later that
night in the debate spin room, but
it’s unclear whether Sunday’s focus
on Flint water and other issues facing
Michiganders will remain as salient
on the national stage now that the pri-
mary has passed.
“We’re going to continue to be loud,”
Flint Mayor Karen Weaver said after
the debate in an interview with the JN.
“We’re going to continue to be a voice
and make sure that this issue doesn’t
go away.”

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Sanders said.
“I know about what crazy and
radical and extremist politics mean.
I learned that lesson as a tiny, tiny
child when my mother would take me
shopping, and we would see people
working in stores who had numbers
on their arms because they were in
Hitler’s concentration camps. I am
very proud of being Jewish, and that
is an essential part of who I am as a
human being.”
Former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, responding to a question
about prayer, said she often prays for
people she knows who are experienc-
ing challenging times, such as illness,
divorce or death — “all of the life
experiences that confront most of us.
“I have said many times that, you
know, I am a praying person, and if
I haven’t been during the time I was
in the White House, I would have
become one,” she said, “because it’s
very hard to imagine living under
that kind of pressure without being
able to fall back on prayer and on my
faith.”

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