At Tuesday's debate, moderates try to slow Democrats' sprint to the left by jonward11
The battle for the soul of the Democratic Party was on full display Tuesday night as a group of moderate candidates sought to constrain the party’s leftward surge regarding health care, immigration, taxes, free college, climate change and race that they worry will cost it the election.
“These union members are losing their jobs, their wages have been stagnant, the world is crumbling around them -- the only thing they have is possibly really good healthcare,” Ryan said. “And the Democratic message is going to be, we're going to go in and the only thing you have left we're going to take it and we're going to do better.”
Sanders responded that current polling has him beating Trump in most cases, including in key Rust Belt states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.“Hillary Clinton was winning in the polls too,” he said. “To take a snapshot in the polls today and apply it 16 months from now or whenever it is, I don't think is accurate.”
“You know, I don't understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for,” Warren said, in brushing off former Rep. John Delaney’s criticism of her health care proposals.“I get a little bit tired of Democrats afraid of big ideas. Republicans are not afraid of big ideas,” Sanders said. “They could give $1 trillion in tax breaks to billionaires and profitable corporations.
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