Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden battled over their records and attempted to make a final pitch to the four states voting on Tuesday.
For the first time in this election cycle, just two candidates shared a debate stage Sunday evening, after a spate of dropouts from the Democratic primary field. to make a final pitch to the four states voting in primaries on Tuesday.A focus on the coronavirusThe debate was originally scheduled to be held in Arizona, with a live audience and Univision’s Jorge Ramos as one of the moderators. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event was moved to Washington, D.C.
Later in the debate, the two septuagenarians said they were taking additional precautions on the campaign trail. Both said they were hosting “virtual” events with supporters, had asked their staff members to work from home, and were being personally careful with their hygiene. The final question of the debate was also on the virus, as each were allowed to give a closing statement. Sanders said we needed to move aggressively to make sure that anyone who needed the treatment was able to get it, before he pivoted to an abbreviated version of his stump speech about the problems of inequality in the country. Biden discussed global coordination, mitigating the economic effects of the virus — and defeating Trump.
Biden insisted that had never been his position, although the Sanders campaign has run ads that show him calling for a freeze on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid on the floor of the Senate. “All that I would say to the American people, go to YouTube,” Sanders said. “It’s all over the place. Joe said it many, many times.”
Biden said, “We can argue about the past or the future,” before attacking Sanders over his past votes on gun control and immigration. At another point, the two clashed over Sanders’s history of finding positive things to say about totalitarian Communist governments, such as Cuba’s. Sanders declined to make the same commitment. “In all likelihood, I would,” said Sanders when asked the same question, saying that his choice would be a progressive woman and that there were many progressive women out there.
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