Bayh, Young keep up biting attacks during Senate debate

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Democrats this campaign season have gleefully attacked as their Republican opponents awkwardly try to distance themselves from Donald Trump, the party's provocative presidential nominee.

[...] Trump's name wasn't mentioned once.

[...] Bayh name-checked Trump's running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, while going to great lengths to point out his differences with Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Bayh didn't use the debate stage to defend his post-Senate work, which has been the subject of millions of dollars in attack ads from outside GOP groups including a group tied to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the billionaire Koch brothers.

Young frequently faulted Bayh for voting in favor of President Barack Obama's health care law, arguing it has raised costs and hurt care in the state.

[...] Bayh said at least twice that the Republican push to repeal the health care overhaul would threaten Pence's Healthy Indiana Plan, which is Indiana's expansion of Medicaid under the program.