Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders faced off in a tense CNN-hosted debate Thursday night in Brooklyn, less than a week before New York’s primary.
The duo brawled over a host of issues and tensions ran wild, especially given that the Democratic primary matters this year. Sanders has won seven out of the last eight contests, but needs a victory in the Empire State if he has any chance of winning the nomination.
Here are the top ten zingers.
- “Sen. Sanders did call me unqualified. I’ve been called a lot of things in my life. That was a first.” -- Clinton
- “Let’s talk about judgment. Let us talk about the worst foreign policy blunder in the modern history of this country.” -- Sanders
- “[Let’s] talk about the kinds of problems he had answering questions about even his core issue: breaking up the banks. He could not explain how that would be done.” -- Clinton
- “Do we really feel confident about a candidate saying that she’s going to bring change in America when she is so dependent on big money interests?” -- Sanders
- “Secretary Clinton called them out. Oh my goodness, they must have been really crushed by this. And was that before or after you received huge sums of money by giving speaking engagements?” -- Sanders on Clinton's Wall Street connections
- “I don’t want to get anybody very excited. They are very boring tax returns. No big money from speeches, no major investments. Unfortunately, I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate.” -- Sanders
- “Because it was a racist term and everybody knew it was a racist term.” -- Sanders on Clinton’s use of the word “superpredators.”
- “There is still something called Congress — and I want Democrats to regain a majority in the Senate so a lot of what we are talking about can actually be implemented when I am president.” -- Clinton
- “It’s easy to diagnose the problem. It’s harder to do something about the problem.” -- Clinton
- “There comes a time when, if we pursue justice and peace, we are going to have to say that Netanyahu is not right all of the time.” -- Sanders
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