Bernie Sanders is offering a clear alternative, promising a “political revolution”.
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She called the Affordable Care Act “one of the greatest accomplishments of president Obama, of the Democratic party, and of our country”.
Sanders’ response to the news of the volunteer’s death resulted in quiet applause and sullen sounds from a crowd of more than 1,100 people at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Sioux City.
“I don’t want to overpromise”, Clinton said.
Shouting over each other at times, the two leading Democratic presidential candidates engaged in some of their toughest exchanges of the campaign on Sunday night, underscoring the narrowing race between them in the first-to-vote states of Iowa and New Hampshire. In fact, recent noises from the RNC sound nearly like dyed-in-the-wool-ultraliberal Democrats.
And when the race moves into SC in mid-February and a host of Southern and Midwestern states in March, all will have sizable black and Latino populations, where the president remains hugely popular. Sunday night’s debate included the issues of health care, guns and Wall Street.
Sanders now has to convince Democrats that he has a shot at winning. It’s a third term versus a break with the past. Clinton warned that reopening the health care debate would put Obama’s health care law at risk. Sanders was noticeably more animated that in previous debates, sometimes grimacing and shaking his head during Clinton’s answers.
He’d pay for it with higher taxes, notably a 6.2 percent payroll tax on employers and higher income taxes on the wealthy.
Hillary Clinton said the former president would play a role in giving economic advice, at least informally. Why give Republicans, who keep trying to repeal the entire law, a chance to gut it?
With two weeks until the first-in-the-nation contest in Iowa, the Democratic candidates for president squared off in SC. “We finally have a path to universal health care. We don’t need any more of that”. “That the Sanders campaign is for real”.
“The comments that Senator Sanders has made… don’t just affect me, I can take that, but he’s criticized President Obama for taking donations from Wall Street”.
Sanders fired back, referencing the big speech fees she earned after leaving the State Department three years ago.
On the issue of guns, Sanders had inhabited the center.
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As Bill Clinton takes to the trail for his wife, his presence was also felt on the debate stage. She ended with a somber coda: “Let’s not forget what this is about”. He’s acknowledged that Clinton, a former secretary of state, has more experience on foreign policy matters, but he has held up her vote for the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a significant error in judgment.
