Steyer, speaking as the lone billionaire on the stage, agrees that he should not exist.
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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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Buttigieg argues against too much withdrawal. "You are taking away what makes America America."
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Gabbard seems unglued unable to play the "I served, you didn't" card against Buttigieg.
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When even Sanders gets to play the "betrayal of US allies" card & Buttigieg talks Hong Kong, you know Trump has surrendered some crucial high ground that Republicans have held for six decades.
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Klobuchar is unwilling to say that Turkey should not be in NATO.
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"Do gotta go?" I'm not even sure what Harris is saying.
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It's depressing watching how much of the foreign policy section lets Democrats get, rhetorically, to Trump's right. Unforced error by Trump.
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Biden says our policy in Syria wasn't regime change. That's true - it's why Romney & Ryan attacked the fecklessness of Obama Syria policy in 2012, before it was too late.
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Even Beto is now talking like W, about how dealing with problems now is better than letting them grow & facing them tomorrow.
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Steyer is really not smooth on camera.
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Cooper to Beto: how exactly are you going to confiscate all those rifles without door-to-door searches? Beto: I will just say so.
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Beto talks vaguely of "other consequences." He assumes the nation of Lexington, Concord, & San Jacinto will gladly hand over weapons.
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Buttigieg hits Beto hard for not having a plan worthy of debate.
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Beto admits that his gun plan was made by high school kids. Buttigieg: "I don't need lessons from you on courage."
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This Beto/Buttigieg grudge match is a fantastic illustration of people playing "how dare you" cards that are supposed to be debate-stoppers among progressives, but against each other.
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Booker: can't we all just get along?
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Warren makes explicit that eliminating the filibuster is directed at passing gun legislation.
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Harris reverts to authoritarian form, threatens unilateral presidential lawmaking, "time for debate is over."
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[Regretting not having an indulgence to get me out of 80 more minutes in this debate]
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Klobuchar admits to being a former prosecutor.
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Steyer promises to remove the free speech rights of the New York Times Corporation.
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Yang & Beto push for more legal drugs.
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Lots of people here - Harris, Castro - up for throwing executives of named drug companies in jail, in advance of any examination of their personal conduct.
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Bernie: hey, Revolution against the fossil fuel execs as well.
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Bernie: of course I'm healthy, I'm going to Queens!
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