Democrat Debate Preview: Bernie Sanders vs Elizabeth Warren

To get you ready for the debate tonight, America Rising has put together a short video highlighting some of the candidates’ “better” debate moments.

While there are ten candidates on the stage tonight, all eyes will be on Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Both of the candidates operate in similar wings of the Democratic party and will be chasing many of the same ideological voters as the primary moves forward. 

Elizabeth Warren will assuredly lean on her “I have a plan” rhetoric to guide her performance tonight. Her approach to offering up policy visions has vaulted her past Bernie in the polling and it should continue tonight. Let’s take a look at two of those policy visions…

• Warren’s Politically Motivated Recession Warning ‘Long on Fear, Short on Facts’
• Warren’s ‘Pork-Barrel’ Politics for Defense Contractors Contrasts Reform Package

And here’s one thing America Rising will be crossing our fingers that other candidates bring up as they pace behind Warren’s polling:

• Warren Charged $675 an Hour for Legal Work for Big Corporations

Bernie Sanders’ campaign has spent the past couple of days defending ‘Medicare for All’ and its high price tag from being ripped off by Kamala Harris. 

• In an email blast to supporters…“Sen. Kamala Harris released a plan today that her campaign calls “Medicare for All” — you can call it anything you want, but you can’t call that plan Medicare for All.” 
• Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir: “Folding to the interests of the health insurance industry is both bad policy and bad politics. This plan is centered around privatizing Medicare, enriching insurance executives and introducing more corporate greed and profiteering into the Medicare system.”

Justice Democrats, a progressive group aligned with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and supportive of similar policies to Bernie, got in on the action hitting Harris for her evasive position on Medicare for All. 

Bernie Sanders is under intense scrutiny of his own. Former campaign staffers allege that “the campaign unlawfully discharged an employee, modified a labor contract, and engaged in illegal discipline.” The dispute ties in with negotiations to raise the campaign’s minimum wage from $12 to $15, the national standard Sanders has voraciously campaigned for in recent years.

Join us tonight by tuning into America Rising’s live blog as we fact-check the candidates and provide valuable context that the candidates on stage don’t want you to know.