Joe Biden is still chasing Bernie Sanders in the race to be the Democratic nominee. Image: Matt Rourke/AP/Press Association Images Joe Biden is still chasing Bernie Sanders in the race to be the Democratic nominee. Image: Matt Rourke/AP/Press Association Images DEMOCRATIC WHITE HOUSE hopefuls rounded on frontrunner Bernie Sanders at a feisty debate last night, attacking him as too extreme for American voters and a flawed challenger to President Donald Trump.
Fellow progressive Elizabeth Warren and centrists Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, all desperate to halt Sanders’ momentum, laid into his ability to deliver on costly programs like universal health care and tuition-free college. The 78-year-old hit back at the charge his policies were too “radical”, insisting such ideas “exist in countries all over the world,” including the notion that health care is a human right.
Sanders had emerged largely unscathed from the previous debate. But he acknowledged he was now in the firing line, with rivals seeking to derail his push for the nomination following two straight victories, in New Hampshire and then Nevada.Klobuchar hammered Sanders’s plans as “broken promises that sound good on bumper stickers” while billionaire activist Tom Steyer accused him of planning “a government takeover of large parts of the economy”.
Bloomberg jumped late into the race, and has not been on the ballot in the four early states, opting instead to make a splash on Super Tuesday. He has now spent more than $500 million on campaign advertising.
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