Live Thread: CNN/Univision Democrat Debate, Biden vs. Sanders
Will Bernie push Biden even further left? [Answer: Oh yes indeedy]
Sunday’s Democrat debate will feature Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, no Tulsi Gabbard. After his horrendous showing in the last two primaries, Sanders announced that he is staying in the race to attend this debate and to challenge Biden on a range of issues.
The debate starts at 8 p.m. Eastern and can be seen on CNN or Univision. We are including a live stream below.
The debate moderators, according to CNN, are CNN’s Dana Bash and Jake Tapper and Univision’s Ilia Calderón.
This is a live thread, so you will find the most recent updates at the top.
Watch live:
[Unfortunately, no live feed available. We’ll post highlights as they come in]
Open borders
Joe Biden: "In the first 100 days of my administration, no one, no one will be deported at all," including illegal immigrants who commit felonies.#DemDebate pic.twitter.com/moJe9QXY6W
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 16, 2020
Joe Biden is an open-borders immigration extremist.
He once again moved far to the left, and now supports sanctuary cities to protect illegal aliens, undermining the rule of law.#DemDebate pic.twitter.com/6wGOX6sVKf
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 16, 2020
Ouch
Buried lede: MSNBC host admits both remaining Democratic candidates are "lifetime politicians" https://t.co/3R1afPIMS6
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) March 16, 2020
Bernie Sanders takes a subtle jab at Joe Biden's capacity:
"Let me ask you a question, Joe. You're right here with me?"#DemDebate pic.twitter.com/PHDGjgt4iJ
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 16, 2020
Biden promises to appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court
Biden's pledge to impose a threshold requirement for the race and gender of the next nominee is troubling. Such an absolute requirement would be unconstitutional if used for the admission to a public college. Yet it would be used for admission to the Court that created that rule
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) March 16, 2020
Biden's promise to appoint a black female to the Court is a remarkable moment for the presidency. It is saying that there will be a race and gender prerequisite for appointments to the Court. This follows the pledge in the earlier debate to impose a litmus test on nominees.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) March 16, 2020
Green New Deal
Joe Biden would decimate American energy independence and destroy millions of jobs:
"No new fracking"
"Not another new coal plant"
"No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill. Period. Ends" pic.twitter.com/7ECql0cItQ
— America Rising (@AmericaRising) March 16, 2020
President Trump: "If you like automobiles, how can you vote for a Democrat who all want to get rid of cars"?
Media: That's false!
Joe Biden: I support "taking millions of automobiles off the road." #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/YeG6BBdnFF
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 16, 2020
So long Pennsylvania. https://t.co/AUKupYBSQm
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 16, 2020
Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are two sides of the same extreme coin.
Biden says he agrees with Sanders and supports the "New Green Deal," a proposal introduced by socialist @AOC that would destroy millions of blue-collar American jobs.#DemDebate pic.twitter.com/In0fWbeeka
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 16, 2020
Gay Marriage
Biden: I was the first major politician to support gay marriage. Nope – it was then-Vice President Dick Cheney more than a decade earlier: https://t.co/sCSw1FKXTE
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) March 16, 2020
Social Security
Joe Biden lied multiple times about his record on Social Security during tonight's #DemDebate.
Here's proof: pic.twitter.com/KgFkkfbnvr
— jordan (@JordanUhl) March 16, 2020
FACT CHECK: here is Biden on the floor calling to cut social security pic.twitter.com/0nTfti4oaz
— Joe Calvello (@the_vello) March 16, 2020
Coronavirus (or maybe Ebola or maybe H1N1)
In the span of 10 seconds, Joe Biden:
– Mixes up the #coronavirus with the swine flu
– Mistakenly calls the H1N1 virus (swine flu) the "N1H1"
– Forgets the name of the Ebola virus, calling it "what happened in Africa"#DemDebate pic.twitter.com/O5cKNBPZSH
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 16, 2020
My god both Biden and Sanders keep referring to the wrong crisis….Ebola, SARS etc.
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) March 16, 2020
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Comments
With a debate between two men in their upper 70s, how live can it be? Who is underwriting it, Max Strength Geritol?
Both are losers, both will continue to be losers, so why would I care about their debate? Besides, I am very pleased with Trump.
Their ages aside, they are both corrupt scum, treasonous, incompetent and about as fake as obama.
Their VP will be the DNC’s real choice for president.
I’m not going to watch. Let me know if anything interesting happens, like both of them staying awake through the full debate.
How about Biden saying “knock on wood” while he knocks his knuckles against his forehead?
I’ve not seen a video replay of that.
Unless there was fraud on Super Tuesday, Biden’s campaign rose like a Phoenix from ashes to front runner. I am sure the club is scared to death of a young beautiful woman on stage with these two. Not only does she have a message they don’t want, she will be able to seriously deliver it juxtaposed against theirs. If Biden can stay on point, and Bernie stays on message, she would be on top by morning.
Who are you talking about?….Tulsi?…shes as big a left wing loon as those two
Video not available due to copyright violation.
Yes, sorry about that. I am watching via CNNgo on my Roku (a cord cutter here). They are letting people who don’t sub or have cable watch the debate.
“They are letting people who don’t sub or have cable watch the debate….”
Lucky them. /sarc
we have open beds at the border we can use as well as the private facilities that we holding the border jumpers
We should make sure that illegals are housed with contagious people.
Now you sound just like a Liberal.
Bernie tells Bernie Brown shirts to attack slow Joe on his obvious cognitive decline.
All Bernie is doing is saying we are unprepared. He is not being asked what to do now.
If I had coronavirus, I would be cured…the virus would have killed itself, being exposed to ramblings of these two old fools.
If only they were just ‘fools’.
hey joe, why didn’t you address this when you pushed obamacare?
CNN chyron just flashed: “Would you deploy the military to fight the coronavirus?”
So we had the military come in and handle the Ebola virus! And no one says a word.
Listening to these two is maddening. The true color of the Dems is coming out and they are going to use this crisis to burn down the country to bring President Trump down.
LOL Leslie!
Watch it here
If you dare.
Oh my gosh. Can normal people not see through this? She cut of Joe because he was getting into nonsensical stuff. So, that’s the plan. Cut off Joe when he starts gaffing. A tall order.
“Ebola” is Bernie channeling Joe?
joe has taken over yang’s grand a month message
hahaha Biden talked about Ebola and the stupid got into Bernie’s head and misspoke. He said, “You got Eboola in my head.”
Hey, let’s vote Joe! He will pay for everything in a better way than Bernie.
somebody should ask Bernie why he didn’t vote in the Senate last week?
Biden just said “undocumented alien,” then corrected himself to say “person.” Burn him, he’s a racist witch!!!!
Yo, Fuzzy, here’s a live link.
Thanks! I can’t get that one to play, but am fine watching it on CNNgo for some reason. Sigh.
Reading a progressive Trump hating blog calling Joe “focused” and using his “experience.”
didn’t bernie say bread lines were good?
Yes, for thee, but not for he.
I tell you what, Bernie is giving it to Joe big time! lol
I have never listened much to Bernie, but I can see his appeal to young folk whose minds are malleable.
I evened out your downtick, but I also know why it was downticked. It gives too much credit to a manipulator with little skill. He can’t fool anyone with a modicum of real life experience.
Promise the world to those that haven’t experienced it yet have egos the size of it.
I meant your very point. My son’s college quad mate “loves” Bernie. He is a sophomore; my son is a junior, But even in high school, he had common sense. His history teacher sent a link of Trump talking about the border when he was running for president, which did not have the intended brainwashing effect of Orange Man bad. My son was nodding approvingly as he listened.
6 foot rule boys
Six feet here, but only two meters every place else. Why is that?
Can’t we all just sing along, folks?
He has quite an engaging style. Too bad he on the right side of most everything.
Yikes! wrong side of most everything
you don’t need 16 years of education
I hope the whole of the country is watching this.
Now Joe will have to show how much is for killing babies in the womb. Prayers for Trump to win
Trying to outdo each other on abortion and immigration.
Protect little babies at the border but not in the womb.
I wonder if Tulsi is going to get a bump out of this?
Okay, I am done listening to the horror that awaits us if either of these nincompoops are elected.
how do our f22’s and f35’s fly without fuel, aircraft carriers and tanks on solar power?
Meanwhile in his secret underground lair, Trump is watching the debates and chuckling, “God, I love it when a plan comes together. What a pair of maroons.”
If only they were just ‘morons’.
This underscores that the DNC strategy is to throw in this hand and sit it out for now.
Joy Reid
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@JoyAnnReid
Does anybody honestly care, at this stage, how these two lifetime politicians voted 30, 20 or even 5 years ago? #DemocraticDebate.
You might ask Kavanaugh or Romney about going back over twenty years ago for anything that could damage them. Oh wait, I forgot. Dems only have a double standard, not ethics or morals.
They have a Pro-Choice, selective, opportunistic religion (i.e behavioral protocol) prescribed by mortal gods, that doubles as an ethical code, which is essentially a relativistic religion.
With Obiden it is obvious that he has “Learned” the new PC mantra about free everything and once in a while his real beliefs come through like when he called an illegal alien an illegal alien. The poor guy will have trouble remembering what he said tonight by Monday. We can be sure that every single msm employee will do all in their power to stop him from gaffs even if it means being rude and cutting him off. It will be like one of Martha McCallum’s guests on fnc.
You are so right.
And if it is Hillary, Joe Biden will beat William Henry Harrison’s record for the shortest presidency.
And tonight Joe promised to have a woman as his Veep. You know it won’t be Tulsi Gabbard!!
the senile vs the demented
Supposedly both candidates now say they will have a female VP.
So Beto still has a chance, I guess.
No, that’s only have their promise. They will both select a woman as VP and then commit Arkan-cide when they and Hillary get elected.
They really should have had the bubble machine going in the background.
What goes through the mind of a lunatic when debating someone with senility?
This China Originated Viral Infectious Disease has been spread by travel from infected countries. The situation in Italy is as bad as it is because of the amount of Chinese tourism to the marvellous sites in Florence, Milan and Venice.
President Trump is the first world leader to act on the fact that this virus is being imported. The fact that he imposed a travel ban from China on January 31 while in the midst of his impeachment trial is remarkable and speaks to his competence.
The failure of Biden and Sanders to support a travel ban even at this point is incontrovertible proof of their gross incompetence.
In my country of Canada, we have a moronic Prime Minister who famously said “the budget will balance itself”. We have no restrictions on travel and we don’t even screen travellers. It’s as if this moron believes “this virus will contain itself”.
This is about to change as the folly of the Liberal Government’s response – fully supported by the ignorant anti-Trump media- becomes undeniable.
The only way for this virus to be contained is through social distancing and a ban on all international air travel except for returning American citizens and to quarantine everyone who comes back for 2 weeks even of people who have no symptoms.
Republicans should trumpet the fact that President Trump is the only world leader ahead of the curve.
This China Originated Viral Infectious Disease has been spread by travel from infected countries. The situation in Italy is as bad as it is because of the amount of Chinese tourism to the marvellous sites in Florence, Milan and Venice.
President Trump is the first world leader to act on the fact that this virus is being imported. The fact that he imposed a travel ban from China on January 31 while in the midst of his impeachment trial is remarkable and speaks to his competence.
The failure of Biden and Sanders to support a travel ban even at this point is incontrovertible proof of their gross incompetence.
In my country of Canada, we have a moronic Prime Minister who famously said “the budget will balance itself”. We have no restrictions on travel and we don’t even screen travellers. It’s as if this moron believes “this virus will contain itself”.
This is about to change as the folly of the Liberal Government’s response – fully supported by the ignorant anti-Trump media- becomes undeniable.
The only way for this virus to be contained is through social distancing and a ban on all international air travel except for returning American citizens and to quarantine everyone who comes back for 2 weeks even of people who have no symptoms.
Republicans should trumpet the fact that President Trump is the only world leader ahead of the curve.