The candidates pulled few punches against each other, but there were moments of solidarity — and even a hug — between them. They saved their harshest words for President Trump.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who was looking to regain frontrunner status in New Hampshire, scored some of the loudest cheers of the night when she called for "a national law to protect the right of a woman's choice" to have an abortion.
Even though the results in that caucus were delayed and marred by technical issues, Sanders and Buttigieg took home the top prizes in Iowa, appearing to be nearly tied for first place. "But he's unwilling to tell us what the damn thing's going to cost," Biden said. "How much is it going to cost? Who's going to pay for it?"Sanders responded that the "status quo" offered by Biden will cost even more.
She pointed to a 2018 tweet in which he expressed full throated support for Medicare for All. Both Buttigieg and Klobuchar now say moving quickly to a single-payer system is unrealistic. Trump's impeachment trial centered around the president's alleged dealing with Ukraine, in which he pressured that country's president to announce investigations into the Bidens while withholding nearly $400 million of congressionally approved military aid.
The former veep then asked the audience to applaud another figure in the impeachment ordeal: Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who served as the director for European Affairs for the U.S. National Security Council. Vindman testified against Trump during the House impeachment inquiry.
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