Democratic candidates try to stand out by being 'the only one' by alexnazaryan
HOUSTON — It was a night of “onlys” in Texas, as the 10 Democratic candidates on the debate stage tried to make the case that they were singularly prepared to take on Donald Trump in next year’s presidential election.
The assault weapons ban expired during the Bush administration, and many Americans want some version of it reinstituted, even as other parts of the 1994 crime bill have become increasingly unpopular. Presidential candidate Michael Bennet, D-Colo., is also on the Senate Intelligence Committee, but he did not qualify for the Houston debate. No other current presidential candidate sits on the Homeland Security Committee.
“I am the only person up here to have voted against all three of Trump's military budgets,” he said at one point during the lengthy debate, as both candidates and viewers seemed to be battling exhaustion. Booker even tried a little humor. “I'm the only person on this stage that finds Trudeau's hair very menacing,” the bald senator said, referring to the well-coiffed Canadian leader. Booker is, indeed, the only bald candidate, and would be the first bald president since Dwight Eisenhower. Alas, the self-deprecating joke did not appear to land well with the audience, and little laughter was audible.
Her campaign has been largely predicated on the notion that she was “Midwestern nice” and therefore palatable to suburban Republicans and centrist Democrats turned off by progressive rhetoric. But the campaign has never recovered from allegations that Klobuchar was abusive to staffers on her campaign and in her Senate office.
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