After almost 3 hours, here's how the candidate speaking time broke down in tonight's PBS NewsHour/POLITICO Democratic Debate. Catch up on the key moments:
LOS ANGELES — The sixth and final Democratic presidential debate of 2019 began with near-unanimity about the impeachment vote in the House a day earlier — and within an hour careened into a spirited battle over transparency and money in politics.
“Is it any wonder that if you look at the international polling that's been done, that the Chinese leader is rated above the American president? Or that Vladimir Putin congratulated him, saying stand fast and that in fact it was a mistake to impeach him,” Biden said. “My job is to go out and make the case why he doesn't deserve to be president of the United States for another four years.”
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar immediately highlighted her differences with Sanders, noting that she sides with her friend and fellow senator, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who has voted against trade agreements throughout his time in the Senate but has said he’ll vote for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. “If anyone has reason to be angry with the Republicans and not want to cooperate, it’s me. The way they've attacked me, my son, my family — I have no, no, no love,” Biden said. “The fact is we have to be able to get things done. And when we can't convince them, we go out and beat them like we did in the 2018 election in red states and in purple states.”
Yang pivoted to his signature universal-basic-income proposal as a way to level the playing field for black and Latino candidates. When Alberta said he guessed Obama didn’t clear that remark with his former vice president, Biden quipped, “I'm going to guess he wasn't talking about me either.” “Think about who comes to that,” she challenged. “We made the decision many years ago that rich people in smoke-filled rooms would not pick the next president of the United States. Billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the United States.”
“So while you can dismiss committee hearings, I think this experience works,” the senator told the Indiana mayor. “And I have not denigrated your experience as a local official. I have been one. I think you should respect our experience when you look at how you evaluate someone who can get things done.”
“We should have someone heading up this ticket that has actually won and has been able to show they can gather the support that you talk about — moderate Republicans and independents — as well as a fired up Democratic base and not just done it once. I have done it three times. I think winning matters,” she said.
“If you had won in Indiana, that would be one thing,” she said. “You tried, and you lost by 20 points.”The Washington Post’s recent reporting outlining how the Bush and Obama administrations misled the American people about the effectiveness of U.S. policy in Afghanistan put Biden in a tough spot. What did he know, and when did he know it?
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