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JRLeft

(7,010 posts)
Wed Jan 13, 2016, 03:43 AM Jan 2016

Clinton Calls for 'Spirited Debate' With Sanders

In snowy Iowa, the race is heating up.

With just three weeks until the caucus, Hillary Clinton took the gloves off to go after her Democratic challenger, Bernie Sanders -— who is now neck-and-neck with her in the polls.

“I think it’s time for us to have the kind of spirited debate that you deserve us to have. We’re so much better than the Republicans, but we do have differences and you deserve to know what those differences are,” Clinton said at a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa today, after taking on Sanders for his position on health care.

"I just have a difference with Senator Sanders. He has a different plan,” Clinton said.

She said that where she and Sanders “part” on health care is that her plan would not raise taxes on the middle class, while his plan would.

Michael Briggs, a spokesman for Sanders's campaign, responded to Clinton’s attack by defending Sanders’s Medicare single-payer health care plan, saying it "would save the average family thousands of dollars a year in health care costs.” He did not say whether or not the plan would raise taxes on the middle class.

Read more at the link : http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-calls-spirited-debate-bernie-sanders-race/story?id=36223002

Hillary's internals must show her behind in the polls, if she were ahead she would ignore Bernie.

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7wo7rees

(5,128 posts)
1. Ummm, too little, too late!
Wed Jan 13, 2016, 03:56 AM
Jan 2016

Most of us have been asking for more debate for quite some time, hill. What's up?

jfern

(5,204 posts)
3. In 2008, after 18 debates, she was behind in the polls
Wed Jan 13, 2016, 04:36 AM
Jan 2016

So she asked for and got another 8 debates. That could easily happen again, except we have only 4 pre NH debates instead of the 18 of that campaign.

7wo7rees

(5,128 posts)
4. Yes, it has been lots of fun this time around.
Wed Jan 13, 2016, 04:43 AM
Jan 2016

Confusing as well. Debates on Sat nites? Only six? Why?

Oh and now we need spirited debates!

I just want to say things I should not.

 

JRLeft

(7,010 posts)
8. She will never admit she limited the debates, because she wanted to limit the exposure of her
Wed Jan 13, 2016, 09:59 AM
Jan 2016

opponents.

Ferd Berfel

(3,687 posts)
12. yep
Wed Jan 13, 2016, 02:51 PM
Jan 2016

She might just make in impossible to even hold my nose to vote for her.

I"ll have to double my Bernie group support time to make she I don't have to hold my nose.

Guess I'll send BErnie another $25

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