--- title: Democratic Debate: Read the Transcript of the Flint Debate description: Here is the full text of the debate. canonical: https://time.com/4249183/democratic-debate-flint-full-text-transcript-seventh/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-07T02:39:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-01-24T13:01:24.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read the Full Text of the Seventh Democratic Debate in Flint og:description: Here's a transcript og:url: https://time.com/4249183/democratic-debate-flint-full-text-transcript-seventh/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt645fbfeebf2700ce/69888070f887dcc261e94ec4/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-democratic-debate-flint-michigan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4088 og:image:height: 2300 og:image:alt: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read the Full Text of the Seventh Democratic Debate in Flint twitter:description: Here's a transcript twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt645fbfeebf2700ce/69888070f887dcc261e94ec4/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-democratic-debate-flint-michigan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read the Full Text of the Seventh Democratic Debate in Flint by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Updated: Jan 24, 2024 1:01 PM UTCPublished: Mar 7, 2016 2:39 AM UTC  Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders stand stage before a Democratic presidential primary debate at the University of Michigan-Flint in Flint, Mich. on March 6, 2016. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders stand stage before a Democratic presidential primary debate at the University of Michigan-Flint in Flint, Mich. on March 6, 2016.Charlie Neibergall—AP by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Updated: Jan 24, 2024 1:01 PM UTCPublished: Mar 7, 2016 2:39 AM UTC Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders met for their seventh debate Sunday. Hosted by CNN at the University of Michigan in Flint, the debate touched on the city’s water crisis, gun control, education and other issues. The moderators were CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon. Here is a full transcript. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4249183/democratic-debate-flint-full-text-transcript-seventh/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4249183/democratic-debate-flint-full-text-transcript-seventh/"},"headline":"Read the Full Text of the Seventh Democratic Debate in Flint","datePublished":"2016-03-07T02:39:27.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-24T13:01:24.000Z","description":"Here's a transcript","url":"https://time.com/4249183/democratic-debate-flint-full-text-transcript-seventh/","keywords":["Debates","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","Bernie Sanders","Flint"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt645fbfeebf2700ce/69888070f887dcc261e94ec4/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-democratic-debate-flint-michigan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt645fbfeebf2700ce/69888070f887dcc261e94ec4/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-democratic-debate-flint-michigan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton","caption":"Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders stand stage before a Democratic presidential primary debate at the University of Michigan-Flint in Flint, Mich. on March 6, 2016.","creditText":"Charlie Neibergall—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/debates/","name":"Debates"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4249183/democratic-debate-flint-full-text-transcript-seventh/","name":"Read the Full Text of the Seventh Democratic Debate in Flint"}}]}] ```