The first-ever openly gay candidate in a major debate (Buttigieg) took the stage as an utterly normalized candidate, receiving no questions posing his sexuality as a potential problem for his candidacy.
It did have a gimmicky feel to it, especially coming moments after Sen. Klobuchar slammed President Trump for “running our country like a game show.”.
It’s a debate, so dipping and dodging is to be expected, but moderators at least tried to force the candidates to deal with just some of the most pressing foreign policy issues that will almost certainly land on their desk on Day 1. Yet when the 2020 contenders debated the topic, basically no one spoke up for free trade as it’s been traditionally pursued by presidents from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama. But it’s his attacks on Biden that will likely draw attention after Thursday night. He’s a former mayor who was in President Obama’s Cabinet and also rumored as a potential VP choice in 2016. © 2018 ABC News Internet Ventures. The scatter plot comparing candidates’ favorability to their debate performance was calculated by assigning a 0 to 100 score to each respondent’s answer to the favorability question, where “very favorable” is equal to 100, “somewhat favorable” is equal to 75, “heard of, no opinion” is equal to 50, “somewhat unfavorable” is equal to 25 and “very unfavorable” is equal to zero. But the 2020 primary field is, at this point, taking the spirit and ideas of the identity-focused left seriously.
Amy Klobuchar attacked the tariffs in general but reiterated her support for steel tariffs specifically. Thursday night was a milestone in the 2020 presidential election. It was a pretty good night for the Texas candidates.
And with 160 Trump appointees now sitting on the federal bench, those attorneys general will have many sympathetic judges to choose from when they go looking for someone to block a Democratic president’s agenda. Harris, meanwhile, needed to get out of her dead heat with Buttigieg — who is far from being her equal in national profile — and make it into the first tier.
It’s too early to say. Andrew Yang is crowned winner in Drudge poll but pundits can't decide who came out on top in 2020 Democratic Debate By Kayla Brantley For Dailymail.com 06:58 13 Sep 2019, updated 08:09 13 Sep 2019 “Drop out and run for Senate” has become a rallying cry of O’Rourke skeptics for good reason: This presidential run thing is just not working out.
And among the polling front-runners, both Warren and Sanders’s net favorability ratings improved by more than 2 points, while Biden’s increased by a little over 1 point.
And if the next Democratic president does not have good answers, they’ll discover how difficult it is to govern when the courts are against you.
Interestingly, Sanders was the only candidate to lose potential supporters, but it was a tiny drop (less than a percentage point). The truth is that Biden looked bad on Thursday.
(And for this debate, we specifically asked people to “imagine the primary is over and each of the following candidates has won the Democratic nomination.”) Going into the debate, as in other general-election polls, Biden was the candidate voters thought was most likely to beat Trump, on average. Asked about Trump’s China tariffs, Andrew Yang brought up the injustice of Chinese pirating of American intellectual property and declined to promise to retract the tariffs immediately. But one thing’s clear: It certainly got people’s attention. All the candidates today are fighting over who will be best at moving beyond Obamacare and toward government-run health care. Democratic Debate 2016. The next Democratic president, in other words, will need to have a plan for how they will react if judges start manipulating the law in order to prevent Democrats from governing. ), The announcement had its desired effect — Twitter loved it and Yang started trending, and kept on trending for hours.
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Sanders’s emergence during that campaign brought the left-wing sentiment base in the party to the fore, showing that there really was massive demand for bolder progressive ideas like Medicare-for-all. It’s a particularly strong attack line because Biden needs black voters, who currently support him at relatively high levels, to maintain his lead over Harris and the rest of the next tier of candidates. If something is going to shake up the race before the Iowa caucuses, it’s likely to be a debate.
Castro’s bold idea on immigration — to decriminalize illegal entry — was taken up by other candidates onstage and then was endorsed by the vast majority of candidates on Thursday.
He assembled a coalition of diverse young voters and older white progressives and ended up with a strong showing.