NBC scores highest-rated Democratic debate since October

The third participant in the debate, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, tried persistently to insert himself into the conversation. “The Republicans just voted last week to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and thank goodness, President Obama vetoed it and saved Obamacare for the American people”, Clinton said. Ms Clinton defended her outreach to Russia early in her term as secretary of state, but hesitated when asked to describe her relationship with Vladimir Putin, whose return to the Russian presidency heralded the worsening of US-Russian relations.

Clinton said she has no knowledge of that whatsoever, repeatedly explaining what she understood to be the case from the DNC–they wanted to drive more viewership and the networks preferred setting the debates on weekends as opposed to bumping primetime weekday programming.

Nationally Clinton at 54% leads Sanders at 36% by 18%, CNN said.

The Democratic debate aired on January 17, 2016, live on NBC and pitted Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O’Malley against one another.

The International Business Times digs into the finances, including the tax hikes that would pay for the $1.4 trillion annual cost: a 2.2% income tax on all Americans, a 6.2% tax on employers, and progressively heavier income-tax rates on the wealthy (from 37% for those with annual income between $250,000 and $500,000 to 52% on households north of $10 million a year).

Hillary Clinton has distanced herself from President Barack Obama on a number of high-profile issues since starting her bid for the White House.

Clinton knocked Sanders nearly immediately on his gun control stance, particularly his past opposition to some gun control legislation.

Consider this, however. Bill Clinton signed into law the very act – The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 – that Hillary attacked Sanders for supporting.

Perhaps Clinton did what she thinks she had to do, and that there will be time for recalibrating after she cinches the nomination. “He voted against doing research to figure out how we can save lives”. The most contentious issues of the Democratic debate included health care, foreign policy, and gun control. He squeezed into the conversation Sunday, indicting the Clinton political juggernaut by stressing that it was time for voters to “let go of the past and move forward”.

Sanders has accused the former first lady of having cozied up to billionaires and said she would not be tough enough on Wall Street banks.

“That’s exactly what we’re able to do based on the foundation of the Affordable Care Act, what Governor O’Malley said”, Clinton said. Sanders proposes dramatic solutions that will only be possible when power is wrested from “big money” interests that refuse to do “what the American people want them to”. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks to supporters during a campaign stop Monday in Birmingham, Ala. She once again appeared informed, in control, in command.

But Davis says Sanders’ plan is lacking some key details.

And Sanders noted during the debate, when asked about his low numbers among minorities, that once they heard his message, they too, like national voters, would come on board.