February 19, 2020
Democrats Debate in Vegas
by tony Lee
Breitbart.com
Presidential candidates Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Michael Bloomberg will debate on Wednesday evening in Las Vegas, Nevada.
NBC’s Lester Holt, Hallie Jackson, and Chuck Todd will moderate the debate with Telemundo’s Vanessa Hauc and Nevada Independent’s Jon Ralston.
Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times eastern.
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9:58 PM: Debate turns to climate change, and Biden says it climate change is an “existential threat.”
9:49 PM: Klobuchar flustered again when asked about why she couldn’t name Mexico’s president. Buttigieg points out that Klobuchar is staking her candidacy on her Washington experience but can’t name the president of Mexico when she sits on committees dealing with border security.
When Klobuchar keeps talking about winning elections in Minnesota, Buttigieg says we would have had Mondale as president if people who won statewide in Minnesota became presidents.
After Warren tries to defend Klobuchar and says candidates should be judged on their knowledge of policy, Hauc points out Klobuchar was clueless on that as well.
Biden says he has worked with the past Mexican presidents but doesn’t seem to know their names. Clueless moderators don’t ask Biden to name Pena Nieto, Calderon, etc.
9:47 PM: Sanders whacks Bloomberg for contributing to George W. Bush’s campaign.
9:45 PM: Warren taking Bloomberg to the woodshed. She says Bloomberg is arguing he was nice to some people and wonders what more is “lurking.” She says there are non-disclosure agreements dealing with sexual harassment and gender discrimination. Warren wants Bloomberg to release the women from the nondisclosure agreements. Bloomberg booed when he says he will not release them from their non-disclosure agreements. She keeps pressing Bloomberg on what “some” means and makes the case it is an electability issue. Biden tags himself in ad calls on Bloomberg to release the women from their non-disclosure agreements.
9:41 PM: Bloomberg now grilled about his “sexist remarks” and a workplace that many have claimed was hostile to women. Bloomberg claimed he has “no tolerance for the kind of behavior that the MeToo movement has exposed.”
9:40 PM: Bloomberg says he will release his tax returns in a few weeks after other candidates rip him for not having released them yet.
9:35 PM: Sanders asked about his health and transparency. He says he and Bloomberg both have two stents. But he dodges the question about releasing his medical records and cites a bunch of letters from various doctors.
Buttigieg says “transparency matters,” especially in the Trump era. He says Sanders’ answer was not satisfactory.
He says he is more concerned about the lack of transparency when it comes to how Sanders will pay for his healthcare plan.
9:34 PM: Klobuchar seems rattled when asked why Latino and black voters should trust her when she prosecuted innocent person of color.
9:31 PM: Warren says it is not about “how it turned out” but what it was designed to do… She says it targeted communities of color and black and brown men. She says Bloomberg needs a different apology, implying his apology was not sincere.
9:30 PM: Biden says stop and frisk changed was because Obama sent monitors (Biden said “moderators”) to see what was going on… Biden says Bloomberg thought it was a “terrible idea” the administration sent monitors. Biden says it was an “abhorrent policy” that violated all rights. Bloomberg says he apologized and claims there would be nobody left on stage if Democrats took off everyone who has been wrong on a criminal justice issue.
9:28 PM: Bloomberg grilled about his comments about minorities and stop and frisk. He says he is embarrassed about “how it turned out with stop and risk.” Bloomberg said he felt his first responsibility was to give people the “right to live” but the stop and frisk “got out of control.” He claims he cut 95 percent of it out when he realized it was getting out of hand. He claims he has talked to a number of kids who got stopped and tried to figure out how to keep the lid on crime without stopping people indiscriminately.
9:25 PM: Biden says he is the only person on stage who has accomplished anything on health care. Biden says Bloomberg was not a fan of Obamacare. Bloomberg claims he gave a speech in 2009 and wrote an article praising Obamacare. Biden insists Bloomberg called Obamacare a “disgrace.”
9:20 PM: Warren rips Buttigieg’s healthcare plan devised by consultants (power point presentation and not a plan) and Klobuchar’s “post-it” plan (insert plan). Warren later rips Klobuchar for her healthcare plan that is “two paragraphs.” She says if Klobuchar is not going to own up to the fact that she doesn’t have a plan, she needs to say so.
9:15 PM: Sanders disavows supporters who attack union leaders and says his African-American advisers are getting attacked online as well.
Buttigieg says Sanders has to ask why did this pattern arise and Sanders suggests maybe the Russians are trying to divide Democrats.
Sanders insists his Medicare for all plan won’t take away insurance from Culinary Union workers.
9:12 PM: Warren uses a question about “Bernie Bros” to point out that she was in Las Vegas during the housing crisis finding solutions while Bloomberg was blaming blacks and Latinos for the crash. Bloomberg is allowing Warren to better frame herself as the anti-Wall Street candidate.
9:09 PM: Buttigieg says Democrats must realize they can wake up after Super Tuesday and find out Sanders and Bloomberg are the only two options. He says they are the two most polarizing and says Democrats should vote for a Democrat. He says the choice shouldn’t be between someone who wants to burn the party down and someone who wants to buy the party.
Buttigieg also points out the Culinary Workers Union did not want Sanders to take away the insurance plan they got through bargaining.
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