The Democratic debate has begun! Notice Biden and Sanders are 6 feet apart? That's the distance the CDC advises amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Lacking a live audience because of precautions taken for the nation’s coronavirus outbreak, the debate got off to a faster pace than past debates in the 2020 Democratic primary.
“I would call out the military, now,” Biden said. “They have the capacity to provide this surge that hospitals need.” Biden said that Sanders’ “Medicare for All” proposal is not the answer. He said Italy has a single-payer system and their health care system is still in crisis.Sanders said that the United States health care system was already in crisis because too many people can’t afford care.
The Democratic National Committee had previously announced there would be no live studio audience after the Biden and Sanders campaigns requested the change, and that there would also be no press filing center or spin room. Sanders needs a major development to shake up the dynamics of the race which at this point heavily favor Biden.
Two days after backing Elizabeth Warren’s bankruptcy plan, Biden announced hours before his debate with Sanders that he is expanding his proposal to help young people pay for college. “As Biden has traveled across the country meeting with voters for the past 11 months,”Biden’s campaign said in a statement, “young voters have shared their challenges paying for college and how important this issue is to them.”
In Biden’s effort to unite the country, his campaign said Sunday, Biden is “open to the best ideas…regardless of where they come from.”With the coronavirus certain to be a topic at tonight’s debate, Bernie Sanders previewed how he’s likely to try to turn the topic to his advantage. “I would veto anything that delays providing the security and the certainty of health care being available now,”
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