Sanders, Clinton clash on autos, water at Michigan debate

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The Hill:

Jonathan Swan and Ben Kamisar

3/6/16

 

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders had some of their sharpest exchanges of the entire Democratic presidential campaign during Sunday's debate in Flint, Mich., just days before the state's primary.

 

Clinton sought to use Sanders's opposition to the 2008 bill bailing out the financial sector against him, arguing that by voting against it he was also voting against the funding that saved the U.S. auto industry.

 

It was an attack designed to anger the crowd in Michigan, a state that lives and dies by its auto manufacturing.

 

“If everybody had voted the way he did, I believe the auto industry would have collapsed, taking 4 million jobs with it,” Clinton said.

 

The entire attack by Clinton seemed to get under Sanders's skin, leading to a harsh rebuttal from the Vermont senator that could be used against him by Clinton’s allies later in the campaign.

 

"Excuse me, I'm talking," Sanders said after Clinton tried to cut in during their heated exchange over support for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.

 

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