The 2020 candidates got feisty in Miami. Our recap of the first Democratic debate:
1) When Julián Castro dunked on Beto O’Rourke for not doing his “homework”
When Beto shot back insisting he’d worked to make sure asylum seekers weren’t treated as criminals, Castro made clear that he sees the issue much more broadly, applying also to undocumented immigrants without asylum claims. Castro added that the objections that O’Rourke has raised — that decriminalizing border crossing could worsen human and drug trafficking — were bogus, because separate statutes in the federal code would continue to treat those acts as crimes.
Gabbard drove hard to the lane and elevated: “Is that what you will tell the parents of those two soldiers who were just killed in Afghanistan?” she asked. “Well, ‘We just have to be engaged?’ As a soldier, I will tell you, that answer is unacceptable.” When the moderators turned to the Minnesota senator, she wasn’t “Minnesota nice.” Klobuchar rose up and dunked in the governor’s face: “I just want to say, there’s three women up here that have fought pretty hard for a woman’s right to choose,” she said, “I’ll start with that.”John Delaney, the millionaire former congressman from Maryland, had a sour night.
When erstwhile progressive darling O’Rourke’s started talking up half-measures on universal health insurance, de Blasio went up for an easy jam:O’ROURKE: No. I think the choice is fundamental to our ability to get everybody cared for —
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