A constituent asks Rep. Tulsi Gabbard if she believes Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's used chemical weapons: 'There's evidence that...continues to come out. I have always said that if that evidence proves that he is guilty, he should be prosecuted.'
After Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren fended off repeated attacks from moderate competitors, the next 10 presidential primary contenders took the stage Wednesday for the second night of the second Democratic debates.Rep. Tulsi Gabbard post-debate spoke with ABC News' Devin Dwyer and Rick Klein on her debate performance and answered a question from a voter on whether she believed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's used chemical weapons.
"I think it's unfortunate. The Democrats need to focus on beating Donald Trump in 2020 and not beat each other up," Andrew Yang said when asked about the clash between Sen. Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden. Booker sharply criticized Biden over criminal justice reform, Inslee hit Biden over his plan to combat climate change, while former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro said Biden hadn't"learned the lessons of the past" on immigration.
"I have a frustration sometimes people the only thing they want is to beat Donald Trump," Sen. Cory Booker said."That's the floor, not the ceiling. To not just focus on him, he wants to take all the oxygen out of the room. It's when we focus on each other. And understand our common bonds and purpose to address our common pain is what is saved us before. It's going to save us now. That is the kind of leader that I'm going to be as president of the United States.
In a reference to his tie-less look for both debates, Andrew Yang said,"If you care more about your family and kids than my neckwear. Enter your zip code and see what $1,000 a month would mean to your community. It's not left or right. The math is forward. And that is how we'll beat Donald Trump in 2020."
"As we go forward here we need to recognize a very practical reality. We have the August recess, yhen we're four months from the Iowa caucus. And I just want to make sure whatever we do, doesn't end up with an acquittal by Mitch Mcconnell in the Senate and President Trump is saying he was acquitted by the congress. I belief we have a moral obligation to beat Donald Trump. He has to be a single term president. And we can't do anything that plays into his hands.
He continued:"The politics of this be dammed. When we look at history at what happened when the president started acting like an authoritarian, the question is what will we have done? And I believe Congress should do its job." Harris called into question Biden's previous stance on the Hyde amendment saying,"Why did it take you so long to change your position on the Hyde amendment?"
The Polk County Democrats hosted about 35 local Democrats for its second debate watch party of the week in a busy restaurant minutes from downtown Des Moines. When asked again if he would rejoin the TPP, Biden clarified,"I would not as it was initially put forward. I would insist that we renegotiate pieces."
When asked about recent polling that shows former Vice President Joe Biden leading among the Democrats who holds the best chance of beating President Trump, Andrew Yang responded,"I'm building a coalition of trump voters, independents and libertarians and democratic and progressives. I'm best to suited to beat Trump. How to win in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania, the problem is that so many people feel like the economy has left them behind.
"I have to agree with Governor Inslee... He's been pushing science fiction instead of science fact," Sen. Kamala Harris said about President Donald Trump's climate agenda. Gov. Jay Inslee, who has made climate change the central mantra of his campaign, takes the first question on why he's made this his top priority.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, seeking to share responsibility for leading on the conversation about race, said,"I don't believe it's the responsibility of Cory and Kamala to take this on. I think as a white woman running for president of the United States, it is my responsibility to lift up those voices that aren't being listened to."
"This is a common error that every single senator on this stage, as much as I respect them all, they all have an enormous error which is going to prevent our party from making any progressive progress in the United States and it is this: We are all going to work like the dickens to get more Democrats elected to the senate," he continued.
Harris, again on defense, pushed back:"I did the work of significantly reforming the criminal justice system of the state of 40 million people which became a national model for the work that needs to be done. And I am proud of that work." "When senator Harris was the attorney general for eight years in the state of California, there were two of the most segregated school districts in the country, in Los Angeles and in San Francisco. And she did not -- I didn't see a single time she brought a case against them to desegregate them.
"I sat down with Eric Garner's mother and I can tell you when you've lost your son, when he begged for breath, when you know because you have a video, when you know he said I can't breathe so many times over and over again, when you know he used an illegal choke hold, that person should be fired and as -- if I was the mayor I would fire him. But as president, I would make sure that we had a full investigation, that the report would be made public.
The first question of the night on criminal justice reform went to former Vice President Joe Biden, on Sen. Cory Booker's criticisms of his plan, to which he replied,"I think he is wrong. I think we should work together. He has a similar plan. We should change the way we look at prisons. When someone is convicted of a drug crime they end up going to jail and to prison. They should be going to rehabilitation.
"First of all, you can't have it both ways. You invoke president Obama more than anybody in this campaign. You can't do it when it's convenient and dodge it when it's not," Booker said. The New York Mayor again pressed him to answer the question further and Biden responded,"I was vice president. I'm not the president. I keep my recommendation in private. Unlike you, I expect you would go ahead and say whatever was said privately. That is not what I do."
"I found that the secretary, we sat together in many meetings, I never heard him talk about any of this when he was the secretary," Biden said. "These children have not committed crimes and should not be treated like criminals," Sen. Kamala Harris said. But Harris also has a target on her back tonight and she is being forced over and over again to explain and defend her new plan. And it doesn't appear to be her forte.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, in another defense of the Affordable Care Act, targeted his rivals' plans on health care, saying,"They can buy into this plan and they can buy into it with $1,000 deductible and never have to pay more than 8.5% of their income when they do it and if they don't have any money, they will get in free.," he began of his health care plan."So this idea is a bunch of malarky we're talking about here.
"Democrats are talking about health care in the wrong way. As someone who has run a business, I can tell you flat out our current health care system makes it harder to hire, makes it harder to treat people well and give them benefits and makes it harder to switch jobs as Senator Harris says and harder to start a business. If we say look, we'll get health care off the backs of businesses and families, then watch American entrepreneurship recover."Gov.
But Harris hit back, aiming to correct the congresswoman, asserting,"Unfortunately, Representative Gabbard got it wrong. She did not write my plan, she endorsed it." In his first opportunity to pitch a national audience of the night, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio immediately took aim at polling frontrunners Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, saying,"I don't know what the vice president and senator are talking about. The folks I talk to about health insurance say it isn't working for them. Tens of millions of Americans don't have health insurance.
Sen. Kamala Harris said,"This is a moment in time that is requiring us each as individuals and collectively to look in the mirror and ask a question.That question being who are we? And I think most of us know that part of the answer to that question is we are better than this." To the folks who were standing up to Mayor de Blasio a few minutes ago—good for you. That's how change is made. #DemDebate https://t.co/zix0UzmZFa
Andrew Yang said,"We need to do the opposite of much of what we're doing right now and the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math." As Sen. Kamala Harris walked out on stage, greeted by former Vice President Joe Biden, he quietly said to her"go easy on me, kid." De Blasio's plan also adds a"Turncoat Tax" that would financially punish Americans who try to avoid paying taxes by moving their assets to tax shelters overseas. Warren, too, would impose an"exit tax" on wealthy people who try to stash their assets outside the U.S.The candidates take the stage in the highly anticipated second night of the debates.Former Vice President Joe Biden is expecting attacks from all sides, but he said he won't be"so polite this time.
The FiveThirtyEight team is offering real-time analysis, charts, thoughts, questions, ideas, idle fancies and more here. "By the way, this was the arena. This was the facility four years ago where they talked about hand size," he continued, before adding,"Instead we talked about the serious stuff...the issues that matter to working families. And we're going to have another spirited discussion tonight."7:28 p.m. Marianne Williamson said she has foreign policy experience because"my parents were world travelers.
Signaling the campaign's focus on the general election, the announcement appears to be part of a larger strategy -- with the campaign announcing state teams every leading up to a rally in the state. Two weeks ago, the campaign and the RNC made a similar announcement ahead of the president's rally in Greenville, North Carolina.
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