Breaking down Clinton’s Wall Street ties

“So I’m going to defend Dodd-Frank and I’m going to defend President Obama for taking on Wall Street, taking on the financial industry and getting results”, she said. She wants to build on Dodd-Frank, which Obama signed into law during the great recession to prevent banks from taking huge risks.

The debate comes after a week of increased tension between the two leading candidates.

Clinton, Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley marked Martin Luther King Jr. Clinton claimed Sanders wants to rid of the ACA, stating the Vermont senator wants “to tear it up and start over again”, which would lead the U.S.in the “wrong direction”.

Sanders, meanwhile, has questioned Clinton’s liberal credentials, casting the former secretary of state as a Wall Street ally who will switch her position for political gain.

Her attacks on Sanders were all created to drive a wedge between him and Obama. “Senator Sanders called him weak, disappointing, he even in 2011 publicly sought someone to run in a primary against President Obama”.

One Clinton aide called her performance solid, while another said Mr Sanders was making things up as he went along because he gave details of his healthcare plan only two hours before the debate.

In some respects, the debate crystallized one of the main differences between Sanders and Clinton: passion versus practicality. But he faced questions over how he would pay for it all.

Sanders disputed the notion that the reason for dysfunction in Washington is because Republicans and Democrats hating each other.

“Not content with Barack Obama’s legacy of a toxic Iran deal and the rise of ISIS in the Middle East, Democrats doubled down on the extreme and failed policies of the current administration”, the RNC said in a statement.

Clinton tried to undercut Sanders’ support among supporters of Obama, who remains a popular figure in the Democratic Party.

Sanders said what Clinton said is disingenuous, noting his D- record from the National Rifle Association and support of background checks, including Obama’s recent gun control executive actions.

“I would have to agree with both of them”, O’Malley said.

The program would be financed in part by a 2.2 percent health care premium, calculated under the rules for federal income taxes, and a 6.2 percent health care payroll tax paid by employers. But Sanders also said Obamacare isn’t almost enough. “I’m on the committee that wrote the Affordable Care Act”, he said.

“I have to say I’m not sure if we’re talking about the plan you just introduced tonight or we’re talking about the plan you introduced nine times in congress”, says Clinton. Recalling the racially-motivated massacre of Charleston church-goers by a gun-toting white supremacist a year ago, she recited a litany of past Sanders votes against gun control measures and extended a left-handed compliment to the Vermont senator for his announcement the day before that he would back a bill to lift legal immunity on gun manufacturers and sellers whose wares are used in crimes.

Sanders also Sunday balked at an attack leveled by the former secretary of state’s daughter, Chelsea, who charged that his health care plan would empower Republican governors to limit Medicare coverage.

Mrs Clinton jabbed Mr Sanders again on his plan to introduce universal healthcare saying that he wanted to replace Obamacare, the healthcare law that the president fought Republicans hard to pass.

It was tough for O’Malley to stand out.