Eighth Democratic Debate

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Eighth Democratic Debate
February 7, 2020

8PM - 11PM ET on ABC

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Guardian coverage: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/feb/07/democratic-debate-live-2020-tonight-bernie-sanders-pete-buttigieg-abc-latest-news-updates

My apologies, a bit late in this set up but the Guardian has some very good "instant replay" coverage it appears.

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Breitbart News
@BreitbartNews
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9m
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) was the only Democrat at the New Hampshire Democrat debate on Friday night to raise her hand when ABC News moderator George Stephanopoulos asked the candidates if they had any concerns about socialism.

Actually, a lot of interesting things have happened in this debate, gun control, healthcare and so on.

Amy is as close to being middle-of-the-road for that group.

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Kimberley Strassel
@KimStrassel
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16m
What this debate makes very clear is how big the contrast will be between ANY Democratic nominee and POTUS. Trump promises in SOTU to protect Second Amendment rights. Entire D debate stage is about tearing down that right. #DemDebate

Ann Coulter
@AnnCoulter
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1h
I can't help but feel that I have something fundamental in common with these 7 Democrats on the debate stage tonight: I won't be elected president, either.

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Axios
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@axios

Biden asks the audience to give Alexander Vindman, who was escorted out of the White House today, a standing ovation: "[Trump] should be pinning a medal on Vindman and not on Rush Limbaugh."

ABC:

Amy Klobuchar on Medicare for All: "I keep listening to this same debate, and it is not real. It is not real, Bernie, because two-thirds of the Democrats in the Senate are not on your bill, and because it would kick 149 million Americans off their current health insurance."

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio
Democrat candidates at debate saying that no evidence existed that #Soleimani was planning a near-term attack don’t know what they are talking about.

@POTUS
 entire national security team agreed with his decision because the threat to Americans was real & immediate

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I just learned from Lieawatha that 90 percent of Americans were for more gun control,and from Slow Joe that it is an established fact that women have a Constitution Right to have an abortion.

Who knew?

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Mike Bloomberg
@MikeBloomberg
When it comes to the crisis of gun violence, there’s no debate: No one has done more to confront the NRA than I have.

I built a grassroots movement to pass common sense gun safety laws.

I’ve taken on the gun lobby — and won.

https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/1225970583634087938

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Actually, a lot of interesting things have happened in this debate, gun control, healthcare and so on.

Amy is as close to being middle-of-the-road for that group.

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The same could be said for Lenia or Pol Pot.

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Tim Scott
@SenatorTimScott
If you had a sip of mountain dew every time a candidate at the #democraticdebate had an idea that would slow the economy or raise your taxes, well...you would have run out of dew about an hour ago.
8:31 PM · Feb 7, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

Diamond and Silk®
@DiamondandSilk
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4m
While Democrats are stuck on Race, we are stuck on Winning.......   
#democraticdebate  #DemDebate

Raw Story
@RawStory
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1m
ABC News moderators blasted for hosting the ‘erase Warren debate’ as the men shout at each other
#DemDebate

   They had one of those graphics on speaking time, Warren had hardly spoken.

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I think it is kinda cute that all those loons really DO believe they are genuine candidates with an actual chance to run and win.

The truth is they are just just there to distract the rubes and make Bubbette! look to be almost sane when she comes "riding to the rescue of the Dim Party" at the last moment.

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The same could be said for Lenia or Pol Pot.

I don't know the details but I do believe they say Amy's ol' man was in politics so now she is. I can't be certain about this but I do believe that is said.

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This Shannon Watts, I've seen her, I think "change.org" had a petition with her for gun control, big gun-control activist:

Shannon Watts
@shannonrwatts
Presidential candidates used to run from the issue of gun safety––now they recognize you can't win without running on it. #DemDebate #democraticdebate

https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1225974545363824641

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3 hour debate? Really, 8 to 11....

Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders
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2m
Unlike Pete Buttigieg I don't have 40 billionaires contributing to my campaign from the pharmaceutical industry and Wall Street.

We have 1.5 million hard-working Americans who want real change. #DemDebate

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1225978529084559361

Ouch, whenever I read the comments, Republicans (say a Senator) usually have a Democratic troll saying stuff, I won't take time to see if Republicans would do the same to any of these people.

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Lila Rose
@LilaGraceRose
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2m
You’re never gonna win, @BernieSanders

Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders
 Â· 34m
I will never nominate any person to the Supreme Court or the federal courts who is not 100% pro-Roe v. Wade. #DemDebate

https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1225979374026932224

Just honestly speaking, I try to be pro-life, I could never say something like Lila did.  I can support, it's hard, especially if one is a man to be this adamant.

BTW, Lila and her husband were expecting and I think they had their child.  Maybe Lila has not been as active lately on twitter and other activities.

To another topic, climate change (no, I don't know who this John Iadarola is.

John Iadarola
@johniadarola
The leading environmental groups like @sunrisemvmt
 have been 100% clear about who they trust when it comes to the climate crisis. No one on that stage can compete with Bernie Sanders. #DemDebate

https://twitter.com/johniadarola/status/1225978518967685121

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NPR
@NPR
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2h
Of the candidates on tonight's #DemDebate stage, here's who has held the most events in New Hampshire:

• Andrew Yang: 97
• Pete Buttigieg: 69
• Amy Klobuchar: 67
• Bernie Sanders: 61
• Elizabeth Warren: 37
• Joe Biden: 35
• Tom Steyer: 31

Greg Carr
@AfricanaCarr
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27m
By championing “race conscious laws” as partial solution b/c ending discrimination isn’t enough to advance race specific problems of Black and other non-white communities, #ElizabethWarren may have found the language to discuss reparations in a less politically divisive way.

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Elizabeth Warren apologizes after 6 women of color quit her Nevada campaign

Sen. Elizabeth Warren apologized Thursday night after six staffers of color working in the early-voting state of Nevada left her campaign amid complaints of feeling tokenized and having to deal with a toxic work environment.

The staffers, all women, have all left Warren’s 70-person Nevada team since November, with three of them saying they felt marginalized and that their grievances were not addressed despite taking them to their superiors or to human resources staff, Politico reported Thursday.

More: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/women-of-color-quit-elizabeth-warrens-campaign-in-nevada-report

Yes, we read about this earlier.

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Klobuchar sounds same compared to the rest.

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Klobuchar sounds same compared to the rest.

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True,and Yang is so freaking looney he makes Bernie sound rational. His economic "plan" is to "give every American $1,000 a month so they can afford to live????? Where the hell does this loon think money comes from,the money fairy?

And "No,I am NOT talking about Buttplug.

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 11m ago 03:23

The last question of the debate is on child poverty, an homage to the late broadcaster Cokie Roberts, who asked a similar question in 1999.

Andrew Yang took the question first, and he emphasized that his campaign promise of universal basic income would help to lift children out of poverty.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/feb/07/democratic-debate-live-2020-tonight-bernie-sanders-pete-buttigieg-abc-latest-news-updates


Debate concludes? Sorry, I was late to the party.

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11m ago 03:23

The last question of the debate is on child poverty, an homage to the late broadcaster Cokie Roberts, who asked a similar question in 1999.

Andrew Yang took the question first, and he emphasized that his campaign promise of universal basic income would help to lift children out of poverty.

 

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That goober is DUM "dumb".

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RNC Research
@RNCResearch
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13m
Chris Christie: Pete Buttigieg was "outright lying about his record,” and when called out he “looked like a deer in the headlights”

https://youtu.be/u58Fn5IdJj8
See video: 

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1225991028173398016