Mayor Pete Buttigieg: 'When David Duke ran for governor, the Republican Party 20 years ago ran away from him. Today they are supporting naked racism in the White House, or at best silent about it.' DemDebate
Some 20 presidential primary contenders return to a pair of stages on Tuesday and Wednesday seeking a breakout moment at the second Democratic debates.
After the first debate, Democrats learned that many of the ideas they championed weren't popular with the majority of voters. So in tonight's contest, the more moderate candidates tried to paint the front-runners on the stage--Sanders and Warren--as pie in the sky dreamers with their plans for free college and a completely revamped healthcare system. Both fought back with familiar arguments against big corporations and big money.
"I was sent into the war by a congressional authorization as well as a president. We need to talk not only about the need for a president committed to ending endless war. The fact that Congress has been asleep at the switch. And on my watch, I will propose that any authorization for the use of military force have a three year sunset. And have to be renewed.
"I do believe you meet with people but better have an agenda and put our interests of our country first," Klobuchar said. "I think all domestic and international policy should be based on the idea that anything we do to help people thrive is stimulation to our economy. That's how you stimulate the economy. So if a few people take advantage of four or five people who were going to take the money they have in the bank, when you look at this $1.5 trillion college debt."
He then invoked the Bible, when attacking Republicans on not passing a bill on the minimum wage:"The minimum wage is too low. So-called conservative Christian senators right now in the Senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage. When scripture says whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker."
After former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke weighed in, saying,"When have we ever gone to war including a trade war without allies and friends and partners as president we will hold China accountable and bring allies and friends like the European union to bare. And negotiate trade deals that favor farmers and American workers and protect human rights and the environment and labor. Not just here in the United States.
He said he would have to re-evaluate if he would continue Trump's steel tariffs before attacking the president on the execution of his agenda,"He's bungled the whole thing. Here's the problem with President Trump. He has a tactical move what's the grand strategy for the United States." The Minnesota Senator was asked about how she would appeal to Trump voters who prioritize the economy over his bigotry, to which she replied:
"We'll call his racism out for what it is, and also talk about its consequences.
"I truly believe that if we're going to move on infrastructure in climate change, you need a voice from the heartland," she said. He also said:"Ain't nobody in the Congress is more strongly pro-worker than I am. So when I talk about taking on the fossil fuel industry, what I am also talking about is a just transition."
Former U.S. Rep. John Delaney takes the first question and tackles why he believes the Green New Deal is not realistic. "To win this election and to defeat Donald Trump, which by the way, in my view is not going to be easy, we need to have a campaign of energy and excitement and of vision. We need to bring millions of young people into the political process in a way that we have never seen by among other things, making public colleges and universities tuition-free and canceling student debt."
After Sen. Bernie Sanders touted his lead in polls in battleground states, Ryan responded saying,"I would just say Hillary Clinton was winning in the polls, too. To take a snapshot in the polls today and apply it 16 months from now, whenever it is, I don't think is accurate." Republicans likely loved it. The discussion revealed large, fundamental divides in both policy and messaging strategy among the Democrats. They spent time telling each other they were wrong and debating Sanders' plan in tough-to-follow detail.
One more winner -- former Congressman Jon Delaney, who, while disagreeing with Sanders, made smart points about doctor reimbursement and hospital closure. He looked like someone disagreeing with Sanders who actually understood health care policy. A 37-year-old Mayor Pete Buttigieg, spotlighted the age difference between him and 59-year-old Sen. Amy Klobuchar when he responded,"This is the exact same conversation we have been having when I was in high school. I was a junior when the Columbine shooting happened. I am the first generation to see school shootings. We have produced a second generation. We dare not allow there to be a third. Something is broken.
After calling Sen. Elizabeth Warren's plan on immigration"unrealistic," Bullock added,"You are playing into Donald Trump's hands. The challenge isn't that it's a criminal of to cross the border. The challenge is that Donald Trump is president and using this to rip families apart." "The frustration with what's going on in Washington is they are kicking the ball back and forth. Secure the borders and make sure whatever law we have doesn't allow children to be snatched from parents and put in cages. How hard can that be? On two debate nights, we have 170 years of Washington experience. Somehow it seems like that should be fairly fixable," Hickenlooper responded.
Amid a response on the debate over healthcare, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., took aim at CNN moderator, Jake Tapper and then the network as a whole for the ads running during the debate's commercial breaks. Amid the first contentious moment between Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and former Congressman John Delaney, D-Md., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., stood by her progressive ally, defending him from the attack.
"Right now we have a dysfunctional health care system," Sanders said."87 million uninsured or underinsured, 500,000 Americans every year going bankrupt because of medical bills. 30,000 people dying while the health care industry makes tens of billions of dollars in profit." Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio:"The political system is broken, too, because the entire conversation is about left or right, where are you at on the political system and I'm here to say this isn't about left or right. This is about new and better and it's not about reforming old systems. It's about building new systems and tonight, I will offer solutions that are bold, that are realistic, and that are a clean break from the past.
Bullock, whose presidential message centers on removing dark money from politics, sued the Internal Revenue Service a year ago over a rule President Donald Trump's administration overturned, which had previously required politically-active nonprofit groups to disclose to the IRS names of donors. Bullock, who did not qualify for the first Democratic debate in June, will make his debut Tuesday night at the second Democratic debate in Detroit.There will be over 136 years of political experience showcased the debate stage tonight.
"I plan on drawing sharp contrasts," Delaney said in a sit down at his hotel today."As I like to say, they are running on what I like to call, ‘impossible promises.’ And I’m running on real solutions to the issues that matter to the American people. And so that’s a really important contrast to make and that’s what I’m gonna do tonight.
So grateful to have one of my biggest supporters in the #DemDebate audience tonight — my son Cam! pic.twitter.com/nVO3Sd3QZF "I think they have a much harder time to beat Donald Trump in states like Michigan where we are. This is a state that cares about jobs and they're not for giant government programs. They're a much more conservative state than California and New York," he said.After Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, left his walkthrough of the debate stage, he went over to St. John’s Episcopal Church near the Fox Theatre.He replied,"I’m looking forward to it.
In terms of what the campaign is looking for during this week's debates, communications director Tim Murtaugh tells ABC News he expects the 2020 field to continue to run further to the left and embrace the four progress congresswomen of color who President Trump . and the campaign have been targeting over the last few weeks.
With Sanders sharing center stage with Warren, Shakir detailed the senator's strategy for Tuesday's debate, saying,"Right now the strategy isn't to draw a contrast with everybody in the field, it's for him to make his case about why he's unique… So he'll make the case for himself without denigrating others. Quite frankly, you know this, we have five or six more debates to go before Iowans even vote. There will be plenty of time to draw the contrast.
A day prior to the first night of debate, a new Quinnipiac University poll, released Monday, put Biden comfortably back on top of the Democratic field, with 34% support and significant distance between him and the next polling tier of Warren , Harris and Sanders . As he prepares for the debate, a senior Buttigieg campaign official told ABC News, he expects to"put himself more out there" as he is"feeling more confident."
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