Clinton, Sanders clash over most issues in Democratic debate

Here are five takeaways from the debate in Nevada. “It is a partisan vehicle as admitted by the House Republican Majority Leader, Mr. McCarthy, to drive down my poll numbers”, Clinton said.

Clinton criticized his remark in the debate that the United States should model its economy after European countries such as Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

“We are not Denmark”.

“I’ve been very consistent over the course of my entire life”, Clinton answered when asked whether she was willing to say anything to get elected.

When asked whether Sanders is “tough enough on guns”, Clinton didn’t do any tip-toeing. Sanders said it was a complicated issue.

In June, NBC said it would end its business relationship, including airing the Miss Universe pageant, with Trump because of comments he made during the announcement of his presidential campaign about Mexican immigrants.

More than anyone else on stage, it was Sanders that Clinton used most willingly to show off her dexterity.

But one thing Sanders did show was his passion for addressing the core issues of his campaign: income inequality and reckless behavior and excesses on Wall Street.

“When the Republican debate is going on a lot of times I feel like the issues that are so important to the people I hear from and work with as a social worker don’t get brought up”, Rachelson said. Bernie Sanders and others because he had already pushed those priorities into law when he was governor.

“Thank you Bernie”, said Clinton, as the two shook hands_a moment that immediately ricocheted across the Internet.

The lesser known candidates made veiled attacks on Clinton.

All in all, it wasn’t the most sophisticated debate on foreign policy in the history of American elections, but it wasn’t bad, and it ranked on the level of a college seminar compared with the grade-school antics of the Republican candidates’ chest-puffing festivals. Now the question is, are there enough Democrats who will back his unorthodox, often populist positions.

The two then exchanged a friendly handshake.

If anything, that may mean that when Biden takes a fresh look at the Democratic field, he may see that Clinton has solidified her standing with establishment Democrats while Sanders has kept his grip on populist progressives, leaving even less space for him. (He seemed taken aback by her direct hit.) She also got a few help from Sanders – most notably on the controversy surrounding her email server.

“This committee was basically an arm of the Republican National Committee”, Clinton said.

Chafee said: “We just spent half a billion dollars arming and training soldiers, the rebel soldiers in Syria, they quickly joined the other side”.

I didn’t know what I was voting on: In a very unusual answer, former Senator Lincoln Chafee says he didn’t understand what he was voting on when he first got to the Senate and claimed his dad’s death at the time was weighing on him while in the job.

The vice president is still mulling whether to jump into the presidential contest, but Clinton’s dominant showing Tuesday night makes the case for a Biden candidacy that much more hard.

Going forward, Clinton’s donor base will be mollified. Also, as secretary of state, she spoke as a representative of the Obama administration, which was and remains wholeheartedly in favor of the deal. Sanders and Chafee, who is a former USA senator as well as a governor, both pointed out that they voted against US military action in Iraq, which Clinton voted for as a senator from New York.

Jim Webb. The Virginia Democrat and Marine veteran clearly broke with liberals and the other candidates on gun control, energy and foreign policy, no surprise considering he served as secretary of Navy under Ronald Reagan.

Neither had a true break-out moment, raising questions about whether they might make a return appearance on stage during the next debate in Iowa.

Pundits argued over which candidate won the Democratic debate on Tuesday night, but there seems to have been one clear loser: vice president Joe Biden.

The event could be less heated than the two previous GOP clashes – Sanders is swearing off any personal attacks on Clinton – but it will still include moments of confrontation over how to best address the nation’s future.