Original story: Coming off a hotly disputed Iowa caucus, 2106 Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will engage in their first debate Thursday in New Hampshire without the third Democratic contender, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who dropped out of the race shortly after his failed showing in Iowa on Monday.
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I think it’s time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign have been carrying out.
The question of purity versus pragmatism is at the core of the test Democrats face in picking a presidential nominee, and the candidates have been debating in recent days what it means to be a progressive. She argued Sanders was saying that “anybody who ever took donations or speaking fees from any interest group has to be bought”.
“When Blankfein says that criticizing those who break the rules is unsafe to the economy, then he’s just repeating another variation of ‘too big to fail, ‘ ‘too big to jail, ‘ ‘too big even to prosecute, ‘” Warren told the International Business Times.
The race for the Democratic nomination, once seen as a sure thing for Clinton, took on new vigor this week after Sanders held the former secretary of state to a whisper-thin margin of victory in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses.
Moderator Chuck Todd asked the Vermont senator if his stance still held – that he was sick and exhausted of her “darn” emails, Todd asked, toning down Sanders’ original statement. Sanders’ campaign accused Clinton’s of insulting New Hampshire voters by suggesting that they only support the Vermont senator because he’s from a neighboring state. Clinton, the former secretary of state and first lady, has been pounding on the Flint water issue for weeks, calling on both the state and federal government to make the situation right.
Bernie Sanders and his crowd are ecstatic with a near-tie in Iowa with Hillary Clinton on February 1. “Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment”, she said.
Sanders wasn’t interested: “Wall Street is an entity of unbelievable economic and political power”.
And she attacked Sanders’ own credentials as a progressive, bringing up his votes against the 1993 Brady bill that mandated federal background checks on gun purchases.
The debate over progressivism, he said, started when he cited a comment Clinton made at a September campaign event when she said she was “guilty” of being a moderate.
She tailored her message with an eye to the voting to come over the next few weeks in Nevada and the South – and not to New Hampshire’s famously hard-to-impress independent voters, who go to the polls in the nation’s first primary Tuesday.
Prior to the debate, Clinton led Sanders by double digits nationally, according to polling averages compiled by Real Clear Politics.
Clinton said no public figure had been the victim of more attack money than her.
Clinton, for her part, signaled her determination to at least narrow the gap before Tuesday’s vote.
Donald Trump, who finished second in Iowa, stepped up the pace of his campaign and acknowledged he should have had a stronger ground operation in Iowa.
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Associated Press reporter Scott Bauer contributed from Madison.
