New poll: Hillary Clinton maintains her lead

Other audience members laughed along with Clinton, who also said: "I wouldn't mess with you". Clinton is the third candidate to take the stage for this forum. Sen.

After Biden's emotional decision to sit out the race, Sanders saw a small increase (1%) in support but the group of undecided voters grew by 2%.

Clinton's plan, which her campaign outlined in detail in a fact sheet on Tuesday, would allow a few private sector care, but not full privatization like a few Republicans have called for, and would allow VA supervisors "to suspend or remove underperforming employees".

Clinton said, "As we work to improve the VA, I will fight as long and hard as it takes to prevent Republicans from privatizing it as part of a misguided, ideological crusade".

Senator Isakson, who serves as the chair of the Senate Veterans Affair Committee, responded on Wednesday to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's take on the VA.

Meanwhile, Hillary was quick to condemn Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as a misogynist when he made a comment about Carly Fiorina's face in September 2015. She did not say, however, whether she should not have laughed at the man's comment.

Support for the former secretary of state is down slightly from the 56 percent of voters who said they'd support Clinton in an October survey.

"She's got everything, but it's her character that I love", Clark told more than two dozen gathered at the UAW 838 Hall in Waterloo.

If Clinton's ears were burning throughout the evening, she wasn't letting on. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), he appears to be making strides. When she was asked how she would fix the healthcare system set up to help the nation's veterans, the Democratic frontrunner blamed Republicans for using the VA for political gain.

The intent was apparent to argue that the kind of rhetoric on display at the debate was just more of the same of what Democrats see as the same old exhausted attacks on the former secretary of state.

Ted Cruz said Clinton "embodies the cronyism of Washington", and Carly Fiorina invited viewers to "imagine a Clinton presidency", where "our military will continue to deteriorate, our veterans will not be cared for".