DHAKA: Hillary Clinton has defended her progressive record after Democratic rival Bernie Sanders mounted an attack on her links to Wall Street.

‘I’m a progressive who gets results and I will be a progressive president who gets results,’ she said, reports the BBC.

The two Democratic contenders took questions from an audience in New Hampshire, which will pick its presidential nominees in a few days.

Iowa kicked off the state-by-state election earlier this week.

The former secretary of state, Clinton, was declared the winner in Iowa by a whisker after a prolonged count.

Sanders, a Vermont senator with a big lead in New Hampshire polls, listed issues upon which he thinks Clinton was not liberal enough - trade agreements, Wall Street regulation, climate change and her backing for the war in Iraq.

‘I do not know any progressive who has a super PAC and takes $15m from Wall Street,’ said Sanders.

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