Bradley's plan would fund free health care for children whose parents could not afford it and would provide subsidies to help working adults obtain coverage. If you're timid in your candidacy, you're going to be timid in your presidency and that's not why I want to be president. Gore and his campaign have jumped on these remarks and intend to use them against Bradley when the two have televised debates later this month in New York and Washington, D.C., and next month in New Hampshire. Gore advisers believe Bradley's remarks will lower his standing among independent male voters who might consider the New Jersey Democrat less electable as a nominee against a GOP opponent, who would use the tax issue as a bludgeon as President Ronald Reagan did against former Vice President Walter Mondale in 1984. But Bradley reminded Gore that both of them voted for a tax increase in 1993 to stimulate a depressed economy after Bill Clinton had campaigned in New Hampshire for a middle-class tax cut.
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