LIVE: Warren, Sanders Square Off Against Each Other in Democratic Debate
First Democratic debate of the second round.
The second Democratic debate happens tonight at 8PM ET in Detroit, MI, on CNN. Since so many qualified for the second round, the Democratic Party spread the debate across two days with ten candidates each night.
Tonight we will see Sanders and Warren.
Click on the picture to watch the debate at CNN.com
Foreign Policy
Can someone tell Elizabeth Warren about WWII?
WARREN: 'The United States is not going to use nuclear weapons preemptively, and we need to say so to the entire world.' #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/EbWndjVeOe
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 31, 2019
BUTTIGIEG: ''We will withdraw, we have to…I thought I was the last of the troops leaving Afghanistan…years ago.' #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/uLIJN8tHRN
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 31, 2019
O'ROURKE: 'It's time to bring those service members back home from Afghanistan, but also Iraq, Yemen, Somali, and Syria…We can resolve these challenges peacefully and diplomatically.' #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/61JH7PQ1QN
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 31, 2019
Racism
Apparently government enforced segregation still exists. And environmental racism!
Flint Finally Comes Up
It took 95 minutes for the moderators to bring up the Flint, MI, water crisis, even though the debate is in Detroit. Williamson had the most emotional answer to the shock of no one.
‘…this is bigger than Flint..’ passionate speech by @marwilliamson at #DemDebate #marianne2020 pic.twitter.com/rC3THHGVgn
— Mandalina Stricevic (@rewritingurmind) July 31, 2019
Big applause line for @marwilliamson: "I lived in Grosse Point. What happened in Flint would not have happened in Grosse Point." Fact. #DemDebate
— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) July 31, 2019
Williamson: the pollution crisis is bigger than Flint…
Me: yassss, tell them!
Williamson: …it's part of the dark psychic forces
Me: um, sashay away now plz#DemDebate pic.twitter.com/PKXaCvP0ju— Zachary Drennen ? (@z_drennen) July 31, 2019
Williamson calls Flint "the tip of the iceberg" and says there is environmental injustice across the country https://t.co/oSGRZAH3l8 #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/5IbrWf4NQb
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) July 31, 2019
Marianne Williamson: Flint is more than Flint, it’s a racial issue. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/Yrdg2WHfUB
— Myriam ? (@maximusmom22) July 31, 2019
Climate Crisis
Delaney spelled out his plan:
Climate change is not a Democratic or Republican issue. It’s an existential threat to our planet and way of life. My plan will reduce emissions significantly in the short term and get us to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. #DemDebate #Delaney2020
— John Delaney (@JohnDelaney) July 31, 2019
It's long overdue to take bold, decisive action on climate change. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/xlImUy4ym4
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) July 31, 2019
Defeat Trump?
OK, I have to admit this is an odd question. CNN asked the candidates if the Sanders is too extreme to beat Trump. This isn’t a fair question even though I agree he is. Tim Ryan reminded everyone that Hillary also led in polls when Sanders boasted about his standings in the polls.
It’s basically a way to determine which candidate is far-left and moderates.
Guns
That evil NRA. No one could honestly give a straight answer because we all know what it comes down to: repealing the 2nd Amendment.
On the issue of gun control, Amy Klobuchar said the issue is not as much about policies, as it is about the NRA #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/1gMGQEiI0P
— MTV NEWS (@MTVNEWS) July 31, 2019
Hickenlooper: “We beat the NRA.”
Not mentioned: crime is up in Colorado since Hickenlooper signed those gun control laws in 2013. #DemDebate
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) July 31, 2019
KLOBUCHAR: ‘As your president, I will not fold.’ Sen. Klobuchar vowed to pass substantial gun reform and push back on the influence of the NRA. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/cxUoYCbxBO
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 31, 2019
Immigration
It’s all about open borders…even though they talked about laws and securing our borders. Anyone else the
Socialist Elizabeth Warren says she wants lawlessness on the southern border, wants to decriminalize illegal border crossings pic.twitter.com/um2xhOpkko
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 31, 2019
WARREN: ‘As Americans, what we need to do is have a sane system that keeps us safe at the border but does not criminalize the activity of a mother fleeing here’ #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/dosAFEIjRS
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 31, 2019
Health Care
Jake Tapper began the debate with health care. Sanders went off the rails with his Medicare for All while Delaney shot him down insisting that it’s suicide if the Democrats go with this way.
Sanders and Warren blasted the
WATCH: Elizabeth Warren can’t answer with a yes or no if her “Medicare for All” plan will raise taxes on middle class Americans. #DemDebate #DemocraticDebate pic.twitter.com/RRKqDbJkI1
— MRCTV.org (@mrctv) July 31, 2019
WATCH: John Delaney calls out Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren’s policies of “free everything” at the start of the #DemocraticDebate. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/KhyNn23dME
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) July 31, 2019
.@PeteButtigieg only honest one who said…let’s just sneak in a pilot project of a “public option” that essentially strangulates vestiges of private insurance and then leave no other choices
— M. Zuhdi Jasser زهدي جاسر (@DrZuhdiJasser) July 31, 2019
https://twitter.com/SalenaZito/status/1156365047280611328
At least AOC admits it.
Medicare for All is single-payer healthcare. That’s it. That’s the policy.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 31, 2019
Previous Reporting
These candidates will take the stage tonight:
- Author Marianne Williamson
- Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH)
- Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg
- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Former Rep. Robert O’Rourke
- Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper
- Former Rep. John Delaney (D-MD)
- Montana Gov. Steve Bullock
NPR had the same thought I did about Sanders and Warren. Will there be any distinctions drawn between the two? Something tells me they will try to out-socialism the other one with Sanders once again yelling at clouds.
If I recall correctly the candidates did not bring up former Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the last debate. That may change since he testified in front of two congressional committees last week.
Sanders, Hickenlooper, Warren, O’Rourke, Ryan, and Klobuchar support an impeachment inquiry on President Donald Trump. Buttigieg said he favors “beginning impeachment proceedings, but cautioned they’d likely hit a roadblock in the Republican Senate.”
I hope the debate does not turn into chaos like the first two nights on NBC.
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Comments
Sorry – busy tonight! I’ll watch paint dry, or Chasing the Moon for the 2nd time on PBS.
Here, I offer my psychic-transcript blog of the Democrat debate so far this evening:
Sanders: “Meowrawrrrrrrrr!!”
Warren: “Ffffffttt!! Hissssssss!!”
Buttigieg: (“I hope I don’t look too gay.”)
Harris: “I don’t want to accuse anyone specifically, but everyone here except me is racist swine!!”
Harris is tomorrrow night
Harris is “every” night.
Smile.
Marianne:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sYK7lm3UKg
Certainty about tonight and tomorrow night, 1) lots of lies will be told, 2) they will promise lots of “free” stuff, and 3) everything they propose will increase the power of government and decrease freedom.
The March of the Santa Clauses…. oh .. and little Jimmy will not get the Mattel Shoot’n Shell AK for “winter holiday” so that he will never be able to be naughty.
I will be watching “Never Come Down” at the local brew hut as I do most Tuesday evenings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtaSAUIDFk8
I have been avoiding the series but the women in my house are watching the final night of the bachelorette. So it’s a toss-up. They will be most likely equally edifying but which will have more drama?
I think some Czerny exercises followed by a bit of Arlen, Burgmüller, Kabalevsky, and a dash of Bartok before I settle on with a who dun it I’m reading.
“First Democratic debate of the second round.”
Have Dante wake me at the 5th level of this hell, so I can savor the burnt flesh of Leftism through the other four.
Of course it’s a drinking game…
Fauxcahontas, Kneepads Harris, Bernie the Crook, Biden the corrupt Perv, Flaky Williamson, Pete Butthead… Ugh.
There were a couple minutes there where Warren was arguing with Bullock about something. Warren was saying some ridiculous thing, and Bullock had the most wonderful smirk. I can’t imagine that Warren has a campaign left after that, but if she’s nominated it will make some easy TV spots for the Trump campaign.
Another split screen, this time with Warren gesticulating on the left and Hickenlooper on the right shaking his head and looking amazed. Just a few seconds, but wonderful.
I am watching on CNN. Maybe CNN is trying to eliminate Warren with these split-screens, because most of the debate is not split-screen, and Warren is the only one who has looked so bad in them.
Williamson saying the same irrelevant la la la stuff as last debate, she’s not interesting any more, plus we saw what she really thinks about requiring reparations.
Seeya Marianne, it was interesting, sort of, for a few minutes.
Oh wow now Williamson announced her huge reparations idea: cash payments to descendants of black slaves, $200 – 500 billion.
So she’s no longer la la la anymore.
Detroit is a fine standard by which to evaluate democrats in their craft. The very model of socialism in practice and fact.
Once one of the worlds great cities, destroyed by the progs in a couple decades.
Yes, with the greatest industries in the world…..
But that was before……DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!!!!
Who screwed up Klobuchar’s eyebrows?
Oops, no, too busy to watch the Dems. Instead, I picked up the Kindle version of:
Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court Kindle Edition
by Mollie Hemingway
I am happy.
If Kamala Harris is nominated, the video of her questioning of Kavanaugh should be enough to sink her. She’s acting like the NKVD, bringing up a totally fictitious story to try to get Kavanaugh to slip up in some tiny way, to fall into a perjury trap about a completely made-up story.
Newton was right about action…reaction. For every positive step forward with Trump the Left goes for a negative step backward.
A good reason to legalize all drugs… having to sit through a Dem debate. Sometimes alcohol just doesn’t cut it.
Jeeezze. A nationwide talent search, and that pathetic lineup is the result.
Heh, another group of nuts on tomorrow night…