Buttigieg now going in against mandatory Medicare vs Warren.
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Klobuchar accuses Warren of not knowing the "difference between a plan & a pipe dream".
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Now, Klobuchar wants to pay for it by suing drug companies.
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Biden notes that Medicare for All will cost more than the entire current federal government.
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Bernie says the current system - Obamacare - is unsustainable and cruel.
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Harris says no prior debate had discussed "women's reproductive healthcare." This will not survive comparison to the transcripts of earlier debates.
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Bernie is getting so agitated, I feel bad for his cardiologist watching this.
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Yang eviscerates Bernie's jobs guarantee.
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Booker asks why nobody is talking about abortion.
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It's ridiculous for Booker to argue that debating differences on issues helps Trump. I mean, yes, it does. But the alternative is no debates & no basis for primary voters to tell the candidates apart.
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Julian Castro offers to pretend that Julian Castro is still a real candidate for president.
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Yang should have a CNN show. I'm not even joking. He asks specific questions, and despite his wacky ideas, he at least has a concrete sense of how the economy works.
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Yang looks puzzled that Gabbard & Booker keep calling him "my friend."
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Beto wants to spend US power forcing Mexico to unionize more of its workers.
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Q: Bernie, do you propose to tax billionaires out of existence? BERNIE: You can't handle the truth!
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Steyer, speaking as the lone billionaire on the stage, agrees that he should not exist.
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Biden proposes to eliminate the capital gains tax, then has to restate and says he means treating capital gains as ordinary income. In his best moment, Biden says this debate is crazy.
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Warren is now explaining that if we kill the goose, we can access all the gold inside and none of us will ever go hungry again.
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"The industrial Midwest where I live," says the mayor of a college town.
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"I want to give a reality check to Elizabeth." Klobuchar came to attack Warren and chew gum, and she's all out of gum.
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Klobuchar looks like she's ready to throw a binder at Warren.
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Interesting mixed messaging in who is wearing blue (for the men, ties), who is wearing purple, & Gabbard in all white.
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Yang: "we're in the midst of the most winner-take-all economy in history." Bro, let me tell you about the 1880s.
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Yang reality checks the wealth tax in how it has failed wherever tried.
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Beto, who just came out for forcing churches to change their doctrines, accuses Warren of being unduly punitive. (Of course, Beto's father-in-law is hugely wealthy).
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Warren reprises her 2012 "you didn't build that" riff, which sprang from the same Lakoffian roots as Obama's.
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Booker asks yet again for nobody to criticize each other, all but declares his candidacy for VP.
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Biden hits Trump for too much withdrawal from Syria & Iraq, says it is unprecedentedly shameful. He's half right, but has forgotten the president before Trump.
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Biden has had a lot of bad foreign policy ideas over the past 45 years, but he still comes off like a guy who has been in the room where decisions are made for a long time.
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Gabbard sounds weak & defensive on anti-interventionism, where she needs to score points. Being hit as an Assad toady (fairly) has gotten under her skin.
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Gabbard asks Warren to endorse her opposition to long-running wars. Warren, as usual, doesn't answer.
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