no one on this stage wants to protect billionaires. not even the billionaire wants to protect billionaires. we just have different approaches. your idea is not the only idea. i think as democrats we are going to succeed big when we fight hard, not when we dream small and quit before we even started. no question defined the democratic primary fight this year more than this. do voters want an idealogical revolution or a candidate focused on relief from donald trump? at the top of the field, senators bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are the revolutionaries, promising sweeping change while former vice president joe biden, mayor pete buttigieg and senator amy klobuchar say incremental change is more realistic. nowhere was this more on display than health care. build on obamacare, add a
while former vice president joe biden, mayor pete buttigieg and senator amy klobuchar say increment s change is more realistic. nowhere more on display than health care. build on obamacare and add a public option. 71% of democrats support medicare for all. reporter: stay tuned for the answer in 2020. 2019 started with a historic new class of house democrats. a record number of women sworn in, and many more firsts. the first muslim-american woman. the first native-american women, and the first female house speaker in history reclaimed the gavel. i m particularly proud to be woman speaker of the house of this congress, which marks the 100th year of women having the right to vote. [ cheers and applause ] reporter: speaking of nancy pelosi, going head-to-head with
so there s just a whole lot of out there that i have learned a lot. from loss. i ve learned a lot about the abuse of power and bullies. you have said we need to build, meaning this country. build on obamacare. is that enough? especially with what people are facing now when it comes to debilitating disease. cancer and so on. it s more than enough. when i talk about and president obama talks about it initially. we want to move on beyond obamacare. it changed the lives of millions of people. covering over 100 million people with preexisting conditions and children. what i propose is to take all the cuts that have been made to obamacare and take them back from this guy. the president. present president. provide greater subsidies for people to buy into a goal plan in the obamacare.
it was heating up tonight about whether there should be a medicare for all situation, single payer situation and there s clearly a split in the party among the candidates about the far left decision and position on this versus those who are trying to have a more centrist position. tonight this is what the former vice president had to say about this discussion about health care. the plan we are here discussed is the biden plan. the one i put forward. build on obamacare. their taxes will go up about ten grand. that s more than they will possibly save on this health care plan. shannon: this issue of whether taxes will go up. elizabeth warren was pushed again and again, just say it. the moderator said, senator sanders has submitted his plan will make taxes go up and biden is saying i have a totally different plan. it will not make your taxes go up but i will get more people covered. how did he handle the health care issue?
second debate, he had a fine second debate and he s still doing well. holding his position at the top of the polls. i took away what you took away, which was let s build on obamacare. that was a line in the sand with elizabeth warren and bernie sanders who said again and again, they want to get rid of private insurance and have a medicare for all plan. he was reminding people he think that s a bad idea. i would be careful with him on this electability question though. who s the person who can beat donald trump? it s me. something joe biden said something as well. we have that fox news poll from last week that shows not only joe biden beating donald trump, but bernie sanders able to make that case. elizabeth warren able to make that case and kamala harris able to make that case and democrats can raise their hand and can say, i m the one as well who can beat donald trump. we have some new cnn national polling out just this morning on this democratic race for president. joe biden out fron