Elizabeth Warren was the most tweeted-about candidate during tonight's DemDebate, per Twitter.
Only six candidates will participate in the Las Vegas debate, which takes place only three days ahead of the Nevada caucuses.The Democrats storming Nevada in the lead up to Saturday's caucuses faced off in Wednesday's debate, a matchup in a more diverse early state than the first two, with aJoining the former New York City mayor on the stage were former Vice President Joe Biden, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Vermont Sen.
Buttigieg positions himself as the centrist option, saying"if you look at the choice between a revolution or the status quo and you don't see where you fit in that picture, then join us... We cannot afford to lean on the same Washington playbook. We cannot afford to alienate half the country. When asked if they believed that the candidate who got the most delegates, but not the necessary 1,991, should win the nomination, all but one candidate, Bloomberg, said no.
"You voted to confirm the head of customs and border protection under Trump, who is of the architects of the family separation policy. You voted to make English the national language.
"Amy and Joe's hearts are in the right place, but we can't be so eager to be liked by Mitch McConnell that we forget how to fight the Republicans. Mayor Buttigieg has been taking money from big donors and changing his positions. So it makes it unclear what it is he stands for other than his own," Warren says.Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg acknowledged that he previously had lauded Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
"I can't think of a ways that would make it easier for Donald Trump to get reelected than listening to this conversation." Bloomberg says."We're not going to throw out capitalism. We tried that. Other countries tried that. It was called communism and it just didn't work.""It is a question of values. Do we want to invest in Mr. Bloomberg or an entire generation?," she asks.10:21 p.m.
"Taxes on small businesses won’t go up. As a matter of fact, we're gonna make sure there is more money available for small businesses in the Latino community and the black community to be able to get the capital to start businesses," he said."We should start rewarding work, not just wealth." "Before, I think the senator mentioned 2050 for some data. No scientist thinks the numbers for 2050 or 2050 anymore. They’re 2040, 2030," he added.Biden took an opportunity to go after the union vote in the union-heavy, and more diverse, Silver State.
"We cannot continue to let our public lands be used for profits by those who don't care about our environment and are not making it better," she said. Bloomberg says he's committed to stop the expansion of coal and to rejoining the Paris Climate Accord, among working with India and China on environmentally-friendly trade policies."I think we should stop mining on public lands and all offshore drilling...We cannot continue to let our public lands be used for profits by those who don't care about our environment and are not making it better," she says.Former South Bend, Ind.
"I said we're not going to get -- to end these agreements because they were made consensually and they have every right to expect that they will stay private," Bloomberg said. Democratic presidential hopeful Sen, Elizabeth Warren speaks during the ninth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season at the Paris Theater in Las Vegas, Feb. 19, 2020.
"It is a major issue because the President of the United States has been hiding behind his tax returns even when courts order him to come forward with those tax returns. I don't care how much money anyone has. I think it's great you've got a lot of money, but I think you've got to come forward with your tax returns," Klobuchar says.Vermont Sen.
Moving forward, Klobuchar says it's"going to be on me to earn it. You earn it with what you stand for when it comes to equal opportunity. You earn it with the work I have done, the leadership I've shown on voting rights and, yes, you earn it with the work that must be done on criminal justice reform."
"If I go back and look at my time in office, the one thing that I'm really worried about, embarrassed about, was how it turned out with stop and frisk," he said."When I got into office, there was 650 murders a year in New York City. And I thought that my first responsibility was to give people the right to live. That's the basic right of everything.
"Maybe it is finally time that we said, as a nation, enough is enough, the function of a rational health care system is not to make the pharmaceutical industry and the drug companies rich. It is to provide health care to all people as a human right, not a privilege," Sanders said.Warren pitches Medicare for All and criticizes her opponents' healthcare plans for lack of substance.
9:10 p.m. Buttigieg contrasts himself with Sanders and Bloomberg, positions himself as centrist candidate Pete Buttigieg shakes hands with Sen. Amy Klobuchar as Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren look on at the Democratic 2020 presidential debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., Feb. 7, 2020."Most Americans don't see where they fit if they've got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root of all power.
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