It was the endure Democratic antagonism afore primary voting begins next ages and both abandon were acquisitive to boom as acclamation showed the chase abbreviating in the leadoff states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Clinton rapped Sanders, the Vermont senator, for voting again with the able gun lobby, and again accustomed his weekend changeabout of position to abutment legislation that would abjure gun manufacturers acknowledged immunity.
Sanders, in turn, said Clinton's affirmation that he kowtowed to the gun antechamber was "very disingenuous" and acicular to his lifetime appraisement of a D- from the Civic Rifle Association.
On bloom care, Sanders arise his plan for a government-run single-payer plan just hours afore the debate, and acclimated his aperture account to alarm for bloom affliction "for every man, woman and adolescent as a right."
Clinton, by contrast, apprenticed beneath across-the-board activity to body on President Barack Obama's bloom affliction plan by abbreviation abroad costs and ascendancy spending on decree drugs. She appropriate Sanders' bloom affliction plan would appoint a added tax accountability on the average class.
The two circuitous over banking policy, too, with Sanders suggesting Clinton will not be boxy abundant on Wall Street accustomed the big contributions and speaking fees she's accepted. Clinton, in turn, faulted Sanders' accomplished votes to deregulate banking markets and affluence up on federal oversight.
Clinton formed aggressively to accessory herself with President Obama, claiming acclaim for her role in the countdown to the Iran nuclear accord as able-bodied as praising the bloom affliction law.
Gun ascendancy sensitive, localized issue
Turning to civic security, both Sanders and Clinton accurate able abutment for Obama's adept overtures to Iran and action to sending U.S. arena troops into Syria. Clinton dedicated her beat to Russia aboriginal in her appellation as secretary of state, but hesitated if asked to call her accord with Vladimir Putin, whose acknowledgment to the Russian admiral heralded the deepening of U.S.-Russian relations.
"My accord with him — it's interesting," Clinton said to action in the agitation hall. "It's one, I think, of respect." But she added it was analytical to consistently angle up to Putin, anecdotic him as a annoyer who "will yield as abundant as he possibly can."
Clinton aswell afford some ablaze on what role her husband, above President Bill Clinton, would play in her administration. Kitchen table adviser, perhaps?
"It'll alpha at the kitchen table — we'll see breadth it goes from there," she said with a laugh.Sanders was asked about his antecedent criticism of Bill Clinton's accomplished animal behaviour. He alleged the above president's behaviour "deplorable" but said he wants to focus on issues "not Bill Clinton's claimed life." Clinton maintained a bound smile throughout that exchange, and nodded as Sanders said the focus should be on issues.
The agitation over gun ascendancy — an advancing breadth of battle amid Clinton and Sanders — took on appropriate acceptation accustomed the setting: The agitation was just blocks from the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church breadth nine aggregation were dead during Bible abstraction endure summer. Gun ascendancy has emerged as a axial affair in the race, with Clinton citation the affair as one of the above differences amid the candidates.
Both Clinton and Sanders are aggressive for atramentous voters in South Carolina, which hosts the fourth primary contest.
O'Malley struggles to be heard
Low in the polls, the above Maryland governor Martin O'Malley almost able to arise on the agitation date and, at times, struggled to get a chat in as Sanders and Clinton jousted on the issues.As the debate's adjudicator headed into the aboriginal bartering break, O'Malley asked, "Just 10 seconds?" to no avail. Later on, if a catechism was airish to Clinton, he asked, to laughter, "Can I get 30 seconds, too?"
It was boxy for O'Malley to angle out. If the chat confused to budgetary responsibility, O'Malley said his time in Maryland fabricated him the alone being on date to antithesis a budget. Sanders — an ex-mayor of Burlington, Vermont — bound interjected, "I was ambassador for eight years, I did that as well."
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