Just days before the crucial New Hampshire primary, Democratic presidential candidates debated which of them would be best suited to take on President Donald Trump in 2020 — and pulled few punches against each other in the process.
“You’ve got to able to not just win” in a general election, former Vice President Joe Biden said in his pitch to voters. Biden, who faces an uphill battle after a poor showing in Iowa, said the candidate must have coattails to help elect Democrats down the ballot as well.
“You’ve got to bring along a United States Senate, or this becomes moot,” he said.
Seven Democrats appeared on the Manchester, New Hampshire, debate stage, four days before that state’s pivotal election, and in the wake of the disastrous Iowa caucus, which failed to deliver a clear winner.
Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who claimed victory in the botched Iowa contest and has seen a recent surge in New Hampshire polls, fielded attacks from nearly all of his rivals on the stage. The youngest candidate in the race, he sparred with Biden in an exchange about job experience and butted heads with Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar on the question of political courage.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who also declared himself the winner in Iowa, took heat over his commitment to a universal, government-funded “Medicare for All” health care plan.
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