The New York Times

What We Learned From Night 2 of the Democratic Debates

Sydney Ember, Shane Goldmacher, Katie Glueck and Reid J. Epstein

Isabella Grullón Paz contributed in the reporting.

When did the U.S. become the Mom and Pop of the rest of the world?  Have I missed something in this debate?  Growing up –  the motto in my Mom’s household was  – our family was responsible for themselves – everyone invests in the family platform and takes part in the work around the house and work outside if they are able and not sick.  Then we all get to enjoy the “fruits of our labor.”  In the end the motto was, “The family comes first – charity starts at home and then second we give to the public.”   For a single mother of eight this had to be our motto in order to survive.

The Democrat platform as shown below have strapped them to Obama’s agenda which is “ONE WORLD ORDER AND WEALTH DISTRIBUTION.”  This is a continuation of the Democrats crimes which are being investigated at this very moment which was to over throw the government and take over the country.

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Democratic presidential candidates raise their hands when asked if they would provide healthcare for illegals –  undocumented immigrants, during the primary debate hosted by NBC News in Miami on June 27, 2019.

Everyone raised their hand in favor of providing healthcare for illegals?

So here we are – the raw truth.  Our country needs to be taken care of and they are more worried about illegals.

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June 28, 2019

MSN

Democratic presidential hopefuls (fromL) US author and writer Marianne Williamson, former Governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper, US attorney and entrepreneur Andrew Yang, Mayor of South Bend, Indiana Pete Buttigieg, former US Vice President Joseph R. Biden, US Senator for Vermont Bernie Sanders, US Senator for California Kamala Harris, US Senator for New York Kirsten Gillibrand, US Senator for Colorado Michael Bennet, US Representative for California’s 15th congressional district Eric Swalwell, participate in the second Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, June 27, 2019. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Democratic presidential candidates raise their hands when asked if they would provide healthcare for undocumented immigrants, during the primary debate hosted by NBC News in Miami on June 27, 2019.

The first Democratic debate is over, after the second installment featuring the second set of 10 candidates concluded Thursday in Miami.

Winners and losers from the debate’s second night

Fact-checking night 2 of the Democratic debate

It was a two-hour debate with 10 candidates. But there was only one defining moment: Senator Kamala Harris of California invoking her personal history about being bused to school as she directly challenged Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president, over his record on race and the use of busing to integrate schools.

“I do not believe you are a racist,” Ms. Harris began the emotional exchange with Mr. Biden on Thursday night.r

It only intensified from there.

Here are the standout moments from the second Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC:

Biden’s opponents have been swinging at him for weeks. On Thursday, some landed blows.

Doug Mills/The New York Times – Mr. Biden assertively defended his record on Thursday night. Mr. Biden, the early leader in the polls, has been the target of oblique swipes from opponents throughout his two-month presidential campaign. But midway through the debate, Ms. Harris put him on the defensive as she tore into his record on civil rights: She sharply questioned his opposition to busing programs in the 1970s and said that his recent remarks about cultivating working relationships with segregationist senators were “very hurtful.”

It was more evidence that Mr. Biden’s lengthy record — which contains episodes that now look controversial in this liberal era of the Democratic Party — can and will be aggressively re-litigated by his opponents. Some of them have previously been reluctant to draw direct contrasts with a former vice president who enjoys good will from many Democratic voters. Ms. Harris may have changed that on Thursday night.

Mr. Biden assertively defended his record, but he also made a false claim that he only opposed busing ordered by the Department of Education. He noted that he got into politics because of the civil rights movement and stressed his work on voting rights issues. He said he was a “public defender, I didn’t become a prosecutor” — an implicit jab at Ms. Harris, who was a prosecutor — and he nodded to his role as vice president to America’s first black president.

But he also appeared almost timid at times, raising his finger toward his face in a sign that he wanted to answer a question, but refraining from interjecting. Senator Bernie Sanders, too, at times raised his hand even as moderators turned to other candidates.

And in contrast to Ms. Harris and others onstage, Mr. Biden — typically one of the more loquacious candidates out there — also abruptly cut himself off when he saw the sign that he had run out of speaking time.

He didn’t crumble onstage or make any memorable gaffes. But the episode with Ms. Harris highlighted, in the most public way yet, some of Mr. Biden’s vulnerabilities.

Senator Kamala Harris, right, and Joseph R. Biden Jr., left, clashed during the second night of the Democratic presidential debate in Miami on Thursday. It was the 10-word interjection that upended the trajectory of the night, if not the 2020 campaign so far.

“I would like to speak on the issue of race,” Ms. Harris declared.

The room soon went silent.

Ms. Harris turned to address Mr. Biden, directly and personally, marrying her own identity as an African-American woman with a pointed critique of not just his recent rhetoric about working with segregationists but what they worked on together. “You also worked with them to oppose busing,” she said. “And you know, there was a little girl in California who was a part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me.”

Mr. Biden protested. “A mischaracterization of my position,” he said.

She pressed on, framing her follow-ups as the prosecutor she once was. “Do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America then? Do you agree?”

In that raw and intense moment, Ms. Harris flashed the political potential that many Democrats believed she held yet had heretofore not been realized. And she did so while boldly taking on the leading Democratic in the race, Mr. Biden, whom many in the field have shied from confronting because of his residual popularity from eight years as Mr. Obama’s No. 2.

And it wasn’t even her only moment. Earlier, she had risen above the fray with the declaration amid cross talk that, “America does not want to witness a food fight. They want to know how we are going to put food on the table.” Then, too, she silenced the room.

In her closing statement, Ms. Harris touted herself as the candidate to “prosecute the case” against Mr. Trump. Of course, by then she had already showcased those skills against Mr. Biden.

Sanders’s ideas dominate, but he does not.

Mr. Sanders got lost on stage, overshadowed in particular by Ms. Harris. Mr. Sanders entered the debate as a top candidate in the polls and fund-raising, and there were big expectations he would use his stature to push his message of revolution and aggressively go after Mr. Biden.

But though many of the progressive policy ideas he has helped popularize dominated the night — most notably, universal health care — he at times got lost on stage, overshadowed in particular by Ms. Harris. He never really took a swipe at Mr. Biden, save near the end, striking a glancing blow when he contrasted his opposition to the Iraq war with Mr. Biden’s support for it. It’s a line he has used before though, and it hardly resonated after almost two hours of debating.

At times, Mr. Sanders appeared more than eager to jump in but got lost in the din. During an exchange about climate change, for instance, he could be seen on stage raising his hand as Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., spoke. But rather than turn to him, the moderators tossed it to John Hickenlooper, the former governor of Colorado. When Mr. Sanders did speak, he largely repeated sections from his stump speech.

Buttigieg almost survives the South Bend police question.

Mr. Buttigieg speaking about the deadly police shooting in South Bend. After the biggest political crisis of his campaign, Mr. Buttigieg was well-prepared to address the deadly police shooting of a black man there.

In an otherwise flat performance, Mr. Buttigieg delivered a thoughtful response that touched on the political challenge of his role as mayor, saying he’s “not allowed” to take sides until an investigation is complete to determine why the police officer involved did not have his body camera turned on.

“It’s a mess, and we’re hurting,” he said. “This is an issue that is facing our community and so many communities around the country. And until we move policing out from the shadow of systemic racism, whatever this particular incident teaches us, we will be left with the bigger problem of the fact that there is a wall of mistrust put up one racist act at a time.”

He didn’t get much breathing room before Representative Eric Swalwell of California, during a night spent tossing spitballs from the edge of the stage, demanded Mr. Buttigieg do something.

“If the camera wasn’t on and that was the policy, you should fire the chief,” Mr. Swalwell interjected.

Mr. Buttigieg demurred.

Mr. Swalwell pounced again.

“You’re the mayor and you should fire the chief if that’s the policy and someone died,” he said.

Marianne Williamson, a self-help author, then took the floor and changed the subject to reparations for slavery. Mr. Buttigieg made few waves thereafter.

It may be no country for moderate men.

The Democrats’ two nights of debates showed that liberalism is on the march in the party. All of the intellectual energy this week has been with the liberals, from Senator Elizabeth Warren’s plans Wednesday and Mr. Sanders’s ideas Thursday night.

The top moderate in the race, Mr. Biden, spent most of the debate fending off attacks from his left without offering a real critique of Mr. Sanders and others proposing eliminating private insurance markets, among other ideas.

Others in the party’s center-left wing — Senator Michael Bennet and former Gov. John Hickenlooper, both of Colorado — tried injecting themselves in the Thursday discussion about Mr. Sanders’s sweeping proposals but made little headway.

The leftward shift was most evident on health care policy, which dominated the Thursday debate’s opening half-hour. Mr. Sanders along with Ms. Harris and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, committed to a single-payer Medicare-for-all system that four years ago was a vision embraced just by Mr. Sanders.

All 10 candidates also endorsed allowing undocumented immigrants access to government health care programs.

Perhaps a steadier version of Mr. Biden could have made the case against such a massive transformation of the American health care system. Instead he fell back on a reliable crutch: tethering himself to the legacy of President Obama.

“I’m against any Democrat,” he said, “who wants to take down Obamacare.”

Marianne Williamson: I never thought I’d see a candidate in a debate come out against having detailed policy proposals, but that’s basically what Williamson did Thursday. After getting her first question, she suggested her foes were too focused on policy rather than good slogans such as Trump’s “Make America Great Again.” “If you think we’re going to beat Donald Trump by just having all these plans, you’ve got another thing coming, because he didn’t win by saying he had a plan,” she said. Later in the debate, when asked about what she would do if she could accomplish only one thing as president, she said it would be calling the leader of New Zealand to talk about making America great for children again — or something along those lines. It wasn’t entirely clear what she meant. Bizarre.

Interrupting/the audience: I get it. Sometimes candidates need to cut in to offer an actual point of debate over a policy issue or if you aren’t getting enough time. But on Thursday night, the candidates interrupted over and over again, literally from the first question. They did so before they got a chance to even be neglected. They did so even though they weren’t necessarily disagreeing. It was grating. And it killed the debate early on. The moderators got better about cutting people off after the first 30 or 40 minutes, but it might honestly be time to talk about cutting people’s microphones off if they are abusing the format.

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Nothing but a bunch of prime-time ding-bat phonies.  All swinging their bats and striking out with a bunch of foul balls in left field.

Some repetitions in the article; but, the debate itself went back and forth with Harris trying to play hardball with Biden about busing.

It seems the Jesse Jackson blacks wanted integration then and I am not so sure they still do.  Integration in my eyes seemed to destroy self-identities and put them into a melting pot whereby – young people are still trying to find themselves.

What is wrong with having different cultures and their own schools if they are treated equally?

As we see in our major cities run by Democrats –  the cities and then the schools deteriorate.  We have to be honest – what is the cause of this deterioration when run by Democrats?  They always seem to become corrupt and “go to pot.”  Look at our country after eight years of Obama?

We have to quit fooling ourselves.  This is a major problem in our political system when Democrats are in charge – look at Chicago, IL, Houston, TX, San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, and Los Angeles, CA.

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