Long-shot candidate and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley joined Clinton and Sanders for the debate sponsored by NBC News, YouTube, the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and the South Carolina Democratic Party.Ĭlinton has singled out Sanders’s 2005 vote for a bill that provided immunity for gun manufacturers, something she opposed as a senator from New York.
It was the last debate and probably the final face-to-face meeting for Clinton and Sanders before the Iowa contest, which has suddenly become a dogfight after several sleepy months during which the raucous Republican campaign drowned out the Democrats. 1, a key test of both candidates’ strength and momentum. The debate came 15 days before the Iowa caucuses on Feb. And on foreign policy, she recalled her days as secretary of state advising the president in the White House Situation Room. On financial reform, she commended him for the Dodd-Frank bill regulating Wall Street. On health care, she said she was the one to preserve the Affordable Care Act. Throughout the debate, Clinton found ways to cast herself as the rightful heir and protector of the Obama legacy. Sanders said that some middle-class families would pay “slightly more” in taxes, an acknowledgment that advisers to Clinton quickly trumpeted on Twitter and elsewhere. We’re going to go forward.” He bemoaned that the costs of health care in the United States are far greater than in other industrialized nations like Canada and France and that his Medicare-for-all plan would bring necessary improvements. Sanders delivered a snappy retort: “No one is tearing this up.
I don’t want to see the Republicans repeal it, and I don’t want to see us start over again with a contentious debate.” “We finally have a path to universal health care. “The Democratic Party in the United States worked since Harry Truman to get the Affordable Care Act passed,” Clinton said. The debate revealed a stark contrast between a status quo vision of pragmatism represented by Clinton and the lofty aspirations of the most leftward wing of the party represented by Sanders.Ĭlinton suggested that Sanders’s latest plan was unserious - “Again, we need to get into the details,” she said - and charged that in pursuing his goal of a single-payer system, Sanders would jeopardize Obama’s landmark Affordable Care Act.
Their exchanges were the most combative and personal of the campaign so far, reflecting the newly potent threat Sanders poses to Clinton in her second White House run. With raised voices, interruptions and wonky examinations of one another’s voting records and policies, Sanders and Clinton battled over who had the more progressive or more workable solutions. He noted that Clinton has accepted millions in campaign donations and hundreds of thousands in speaking fees from the financial sector. He accused Clinton of being too cozy with Wall Street and beholden to the financial industry. Bernie Sanders on issues from gun control to health care and fealty to President Obama at a presidential debate Sunday as she sought to puncture Sanders’s insurgent appeal and regain her footing after a difficult stretch.Ĭlinton put Sanders on the defensive through much of the two-hour debate, but a hoarse-voiced Sanders got in numerous digs. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton aggressively prosecuted Sen. By Anne Gearan and Philip Rucker January 17 at 11:23 PM CHARLESTON, S.C.
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