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Before they're eligible for medicare. >> i want to ask this. final question. one of the things donald trump said throughout the campaign was we have to take care of everybody, i don't want anyone on the street, we have to take care of everybody. it's been the refrain. i'm compassionate unlike other republicans. is this compassionate. will this take care of everybody. particularly the most vulnerable folks? >> no, this man came into office with a law in place that increased coverage by over 20 million people. that's expanding coverage. if you want to make things better, build on that. this is a...

"go buy your insurance" instead of the subsidy they're getting of $10,000. this is a big take away for people in the upper age brackets before they're eligible for medicare. >> i want to ask this. final question. one of the things donald trump said throughout the campaign was we have to take care of everybody, i don't want anyone on the street, we have to take care of everybody. it's been the refrain. i'm compassionate unlike other republicans. is this compassionate. will this take care of everybody. particularly the most vulnerable folks? >> no, this man came into office with a law in place t...

Phrase, action and passion is not something the coakley campaign had in 2010 and certainly not something the coakley campaign has in 2014. >> i just want to ask you because we're talking about this as steve grossman and martha coakley. there is a third candidate who qualified for the ballot and it was a bit of a surprise how well don berwick, who used to run the medicare and medicaid program. he nearly beat her for second place. i've heard from people he's pitched his message really at the progressive base of the democratic party and i've heard people say that steve grossman ought to be worrie...

Very painful for a lot of people in this room. i understand how much of your heart and soul was in that race. mine too. i know how hard so many of you worked in that race, and i thank you for that. >> that was at the massachusetts state democratic convention in worcester yesterday. when all the votes were counted she was barely in second place, losing by double digits to steve grossman and just ahead of don berwick. there's going to be a primary because every candidate who got more than 15% with run in it but grossman is the officially endorsed candidate of the democratic party. coakley has be...

Fundamentally -- it's going to come down to a race between me and martha coakley. don berwick will be in the race. he's a distinguished doctor, but this is about jobs and also about fiscal discipline and responsibility. who can run government? i've spent the last four years i think doing a pretty solid job run get treasury of this commonwealth and all of its component parts so fiscal responsibility. who is going to go out there and protect the taxpayer's dollar. jobs, fiscal responsibility, who's going to protect the taxpayer and who's going to create that energetic army of activists all over ...