– Smear –
“I think it’s time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign have been carrying out in recent weeks,” she added to a smattering of boos among the in-house audience of 600.
Sanders hit back by insisting that billionaires undermine democracy in the United States by spending unlimited funds on election campaigns.
“I am the only candidate that does not have a Super Pac,” Sanders retorted to cheers, saying he had raised $3.5 million in individual contributions averaging $27 from ordinary Americans.
Sanders presented himself throughout as a fresh voice calling for a political revolution to raise the voice of working Americans and young voters in the political process, offering universal health care and tuition-free public colleges.
Asked why he thinks he can deliver his sweeping reforms, Sanders quipped: “I haven’t quite run for president before,” to cheers, alluding to Clinton’s previous bid for the White House.
Clinton meanwhile swiped at Sanders as a “self-proclaimed gatekeeper for progressivism” and got cheers for saying only he could portray a woman trying to become the first female president as an establishment figure.
– Youth vote –
Sanders claimed a moral victory in Monday’s Iowa vote, winning 49.6 percent to Clinton’s 49.8 percent, in the first vote of the US election cycle having trailed as a distant second only months earlier.
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