Big business is the bogeyman of Democratic presidential politics, and the three candidates each sought at Saturday's debate to be the seen as the one who would take on Wall Street.
Moderator David Muir pointed out that Clinton was on the cover of Fortune magazine when she first ran in 2008 with the caption "Business Loves Hillary."
"I'm curious, eight years later, should corporate America love Hillary Clinton?" Muir asked.
"Everybody should," Clinton said to cheers and applause from the audience.
She said she wants the wealthy to "pay their fair share, which they have not been doing."
She also called for the "Buffett Rule," requiring millionaires to pay 30 percent tax rates.
"But I also want to create jobs. And I want to be a partner with the private sector," she said, noting that her father was a small business owner.
When Muir asked Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders if corporate America will love a President Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist was more succinct: "No, I think they won't."
"The CEOs of large multinationals may like Hillary. They ain't going to like me," he said. "And Wall Street is going to like me even less."
He denounced the "greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior on Wall Street," and called for the breakup of large financial institutions.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley slammed both his opponents.
"There is a better way forward than either of those offered by my two opponents here on this stage," he said. "We're not going to fix what ails our economy. We're not going to make wages go up for everyone by either trying to replace American capitalism with socialism, which by the way the rest of the world is moving away from. Nor will we fix it by submitting to sort of Wall Street-directed crony capitalism."
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