Clinton, the former secretary of state who helped shape the deal, praised it, but like Obama, said she still regarded Iran as a rival not meriting normalization.
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Sanders talked about a revolution, while Clinton was much more pragmatic and would closely resemble a third term ofPresident Obama.
Hillary Clinton came out aggressively against Bernie Sanders in last night’s debate, taking the gloves off and ramping up the heat in an effort to staunch the Vermont senator’s recent momentum in the polls two weeks out from the Iowa caucus.
“Universal healthcare is an idea that has been supported in the United States by Democratic presidents going back to Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman”, Sanders wrote. He painted Clinton as a defender of the status quo who accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees as a former secretary of state from Wall Street backers. Clinton and Sanders are neck and neck in both Iowa and New Hampshire, site of the first primary.
Clinton got 10 percent and longshot Martin O’Malley garnered 3 percent.
“Guess what: In Iowa, New Hampshire, the race is (now) very, very close”, Sanders said. These differences led to some fiery exchanges between the two.
If there is a clear victor out of last night’s Democratic Debate it looks to be NBC, Lester Holt and Andrea Mitchell.
The pair, along with ex-Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, took the stage in Charleston, South Carolina as frontrunner Clinton feels the heat from challenger Sanders in a tightening nomination race.
“This has been the fight of the Democratic Party for decades… let’s take the Affordable Care Act, let’s make it work”.
Obama also signed the Dodd-Frank Act to regulate Wall Street, she said, and she called it one of the most important regulatory schemes since the 1930s.
Presidential front runner Hillary Clinton. She noted that Sanders once called Obama weak and disappointing and suggested that a primary challenge for Obama in 2012 would be healthy. But the plan would raise taxes on Americans across the board and require a 6.2 percent health care payroll tax on businesses, while slapping taxpayers with a 2.2 percent “premium” based on income.
“Front runners Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders did their best to contrast agendas and visions for moving the country forward following the presidency of Barack Obama”, said Mr Aaron Kall, director of debate at the University of MI.
“Nobody is tearing this up”, he said, referring to the program popularly known as Obamacare.
During the debate, the three remaining Democratic candidates traded jabs on issues like healthcare, with Clinton claiming that Sanders would essentially dismantle President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
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Sanders, a senator from Vermont, started the debate by calling Clinton’s attacks on his gun bill voting record “disingenuous”, bragging about a poor rating from the National Rifle Association.
