Skills, your commitment, your energy, your ambition. Ive been privileged to see the presidency up close, and i know the awesome responsibility of protecting our country and the Incredible Opportunity of working to try to make life better for all of you. I have made the cause of children and families really my lifes work. Thats what my mission will be in the presidency. I will stand up for families against powerful interests, against corporations. I will do everything that i can to make sure that you have good jobs with rising incomes, that your kids have good educations from preschool through college. I hope you will give me a chance to serve as your president. Secretary clinton, thank you. Mr. Trump . Shes raising the money from the people she wants to control. Doesnt work that way. But when i started this campaign, i started it very strongly. Its called make America Great again. Were going to make America Great. We have a depleted military. It has to be helped. It has to be fixed. We
To the rich and might raise taxes for some in the middle class. The stock market now at a record high will drop if congress does not cut taxes, senator cruz supports the president s effort to lower taxes. Senator sanders opposes it. A reminder you will get 90 seconds to answer questions from us and our audience, 45 seconds for responses and rebuttalion. Lets start with our opening arguments. You each have one minute. Senator cruz, well start with you. Dana, thank you. I want to thank cnn and jake and dana for hosting this. Berna several months ago you and i did obamacare, now were back with taxes. I got to say, this debate is very, very simple. Bernie and the democrats want every one of you watching today to pay more taxes. And republicans want to lower the taxes for each and every person watching this debate. Tonight im going to make a prediction. Bernie is going to suggest that this is not really about you. This is about, quote, taxing the rich. Thats what the democrats always say. B