Sanders Can’t Clarify Wall Street Plan in Testy Clinton Debate
Clinton and Sanders Spar Over Judgment, Banks
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Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton engaged in their sharpest, testiest debate yet ahead of next week's New York presidential primary, but Sanders' barbs did little to knock Clinton off stride—or to clarify his own plan for overhauling Wall Street.
The debate on Thursday, ahead of the April 19 Democratic primary, gave Sanders a chance to fill in the blanks on how he'd break up big banks and keep them from sinking the economy in a global meltdown, a key part of his campaign. Instead, he retreated to familiar talking points while Clinton seized the initiative on the issue, even as she defended her past paid speech-making for Goldman Sachs Group Inc.