DEMOCRATIC presidential front-runner Joe Biden and his rival Kamala Harris provoked each other with subtle digs as they clashed in last night’s debate.
In a rocky start to the TV battle, Biden, 76, was heard telling 54-year-old lawmaker Harris: “Go easy on me, kid”.
This did not go down well with her supporters or viewers at home, with hundreds pointing out she is the former Attorney General of California, not a “kid”.
Christina Reynolds tweeted: “She’s a senator and a bad ass. Not a kid.”
Harris’ camp also fired back at Biden, with the California Democrat’s national press secretary Ian Sams tweeting: “Kid?”
But Harris had her own revenge by demoting former Vice President Biden to ‘Senator’ when she addressed him in the debates.
Many speculated this was a deliberate slip to throw shade at Biden.
Tyler Sanders tweeted: “Biden called Harris “kid” and as a result Harris demoted him from VP to “Senator” #DemDebate.”
Max Paul said: “Kamala Harris keeps referring to Joe Biden as #senator Biden and not Vice President. #shade.”
Shaun McGee added: “Senator Biden once is a slip. Twice is a read! Well done Madam Kamala Harris.”
Biden represented Delaware in the US Senate for decades before becoming Barack Obama’s vice president.
“Fact check: Joe Biden is not a ‘Senator,’” tweeted Andrew Bates, Biden’s rapid response director.
On the second of back-to-back nights of debates, the two rivals waded into a growing fight over healthcare that has split the Democratic Party.
The crowded Democratic field of about two dozen candidates is vying for the right to face Republican President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election.
Biden, who struck a sharper and more aggressive tone than in the first debate, ridiculed Harris’ contention that her recently unveiled plan would not require a middle-class tax increase or eliminate private insurance plans.
“You can’t beat President Trump with double-talk on this plan,” Biden told Harris.
“The plan no matter how you cut it costs $3 trillion. It will require middle-class taxes to go up, not down. Thirdly, it will eliminate employer-based insurance.”
Harris rejected Biden’s description as “simply inaccurate” and ripped into Biden’s proposal to build on President Barack Obama’s healthcare plan, popularly known as Obamacare, and include a government-run option.
She argued this would leave millions uninsured.
“In 2019 in America for a Democrat to be running for president with a plan that does not cover everyone, I think is without excuse,” Harris said.
The early fireworks were expected after Biden had engaged for weeks in an escalating fight with Harris and US Senator Cory Booker for the support of black voters.
Biden was flanked at centre stage by Harris and Booker, the most prominent black contenders in a Democratic nominating contest in which race has played a prominent role.
He cited that diversity on stage in his opening statement, contrasting it with Trump’s recent attacks on Democratic minority lawmakers that have been widely criticized as racist.
“Mr President, this is America, and we are strong and great because of this diversity, Mr President, not in spite of it,” he said to Republican President Donald Trump.
“Let’s get something straight, we love it, were not leaving it, were here to stay and were certainly not leaving it here to you,” said Biden, who was vice president under Obama, the first black US president.
Seven other candidates, including former U.S. Housing Secretary Julian Castro, Washington Governor Jay Inslee and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, joined them on stage in Detroit in search of a breakout moment that will generate new momentum for their campaigns.
“Tonight, we have to get to the heart and soul of who we are as Democrats,” said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio in his opening statement.
“There are good people on this stage but there are real differences.”
The debates come about six months before Iowa holds the first nominating contest.
The two nights in Detroit could be the last chance for many of the lower-tier contenders to make an appearance on the national debate stage.
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