Hillary Clinton targeted Bernie Sanders’s electoral appeal with some of her strongest language yet in a debate on Sunday night, seizing onMr. Sanders’s recent policy shifts on universal health care and gun control to try to undercut his image as an anti-political truth teller.Mrs. Clinton also repeatedly aligned herself with a former political rival, President Obama, as she sought to portray her current one,Mr. Sanders,Hillary Clinton as a fringe candidate who did not stand with Mr. Obama on major issues like Wall Street regulation.<br />Mr. Sanders, in turn, gave no quarter as he criticized Mrs. Clinton as dishonest in her attacks.<br />With Mr. Sanders gaining on her before the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses, Mrs. Clinton cast herself as the defender of Mr. Obama’s record andMr. Sanders as playing into Republican hands with proposals like replacing the Affordable Care Act with a single-payer plan, which Mr. Sanders describes as “Medicare for all.”
