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The 10 highest-polling candidates are appearing for a single night of debate in Houston hosted by ABC News and Univision -- the smallest roster yet in the third matchup of Democratic National Committee-sanctioned primary debates, with a field that still counts 20."I was an unhappy lawyer for five whole months and I left to start a business," Andrew Yang began."My company flopped. I lost investors, hundreds of thousands of dollars, still owed 100,000 in school debt.
"I had no idea what kind of professional setback it would be, especially because inconveniently, it was an election year in my socially conservative community. What happened was that when I trusted voters to judge me based on the job that I did for them, they decided to trust me and re-elected me with 80% of the vote," he added.
"Resilience, to me, means growing up in a rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn, New York, the son of an immigrant who came to this country without a nickel in his pocket. Professional resilience means to me, George, running for U.S. Senate in Vermont and getting 1% of the vote," Sanders said in response to ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos' question.
Seeking to find a lane amid a debate on charter schools, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker invoked his mayoral tenure, saying,"People are talking about raising teacher salary. We actually did it in Newark, New Jersey." "Look, there's institutional segregation in this country. And from the time I got involved, I started dealing with that. Red lining, banks, making sure we are in a position where -- look, you talk about education. I propose that what we take is those very poor schools, the Title I schools, triple the amount of money we spend from $15 to $45 billion a year," Biden said."I'm going to go like the rest of them do, twice over. Okay? Because here's the deal.
"Step one is appoint a Secretary of Education who actually believes in public education. I believe in public education. And in order to strengthen it, some things are very complex, for preparing for a future where knowledge is at your fingertips, but we got to teach more to do with critical thinking and social and emotional learning," Buttigieg said.
"The answer is to put money directly into the families and neighborhoods to give our kids chance to learn and our teachers a chance to teach," he concluded. "We need to work on every front on climate change. It is the threat to every living thing on this planet and we are running out of time," Warren said.
Former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke, responding to a question on climate change, said action on the issue is crucial"regardless of political consequences." "The big differences between you and me, I never believed what Cheney and Bush said about Iraq and I voted against the war in Iraq and help lead the opposition," Sanders said."I think also I am the only person up here to have voted against all three of trump's military budgets."
He later leaned on the trust President Obama put in him to ensure an effective end to U.S. involvement in Iraq. "By the way, we also have a president right now who seems to treat troops as props, or worse, tools for his own enrichment," he added, taking a swipe at Trump. "I was in Afghanistan with John McCain two years ago this past summer," she said."We talked to military leaders, American and local leaders, we talked to people on the ground and asked the question...Show me what winning looks like...no one can describe it. And the reason no one can describe it is because the problems in Afghanistan are not problems that can be solved by a military.
In a rare moment of commodity, former Vice President Joe Biden said he agreed with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Amid the debate on trade, he said,"I think Elizabeth -- Senator Warren is correct, at the table has to be labor, and at the table have to be environmentalists. The fact of the matter is, China, the problem isn't the trade deficit, the problem is they're stealing our intellectual property.
As she directed her criticism at President Trump, the frequent target of attacks Thursday night, Minnesota Amy Klobuchar said,"What [Trump] has done here, has assessed these tariffs on our allies, he's put us in the middle of the trade war and treating our farmers and workers like poker chips in one of his bankrupt casinos."
Pete Buttigieg on trade:"When I first got into this race, I remember President Trump scoffed and said he'd like to see me making a deal with Xi Jinping. I'd like to see him making a deal with Xi Jinping" https://t.co/T37EaVOvlU #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/P3kK7Om1hr Yang continued:"We have to say to the American people, immigrants are positive for our economic and social dynamism, and I would return immigration to the total it was in the Obama administration."
"I stand with Barack Obama all eight years. Good, bad and indifferent. That's where I stand. I did not say I did not stand with him," Biden said in defense. Sen. Booker pushed an urgent response to the recent mass shootings, saying that action cannot only come after those tragic events, but also in response to violence in the communities like his .
O'Rourke grew more passionate, as he continued:"So many other people were shot by that AR-15 in Odessa, there weren't enough ambulances to get to them in time. Hell yes, we're going to take away your AR-15, your AK-47. We're not going to allow it to be used against a fellow American anymore." Former Vice President Joe Biden says that since Sandy Hook, gun control"went from a cause to a movement.""By the way Beto -- forgive me for saying Beto," Biden said.Biden continued:"The way he handled what happened in his hometown is meaningful. To look into the eyes of those people, to see those kids, to understand those parents, you understand the heartache. But this is the problem. This is the problem.
"I'm glad you asked me this question, and there have been many distortions of my record. Let me be very clear. I made a decision to become a prosecutor for two reasons. One, I've always wanted to protect people and keep them safe and second, I was born knowing about how this criminal justice system in America has worked in a way that has been informed by racial bias," Harris said.
Booker, fielding a question from ABC News' Linsey Davis, said a comprehensive criminal justice plan is central to combatting"systemic racism,' in America. Beto O'Rourke:"Racism in America is endemic. It is foundational. We can mark the creation of this country not at the 4th of July, 1776, but August 20, 1619, when the first kidnapped African was brought to this country against his will."https://t.co/BOc41aqICy�#DemDebate pic.twitter.com/4kwZLxUqbt
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro and Biden had a particularly contentious exchange, also over healthcare, with Castro accusing Biden of forgetting the details of his own healthcare plan. She then took aim at the current White House occupants, President Trump, telling the crowd,"But at least five people have talked, some repeatedly on this subject, and not once have we talked about Donald Trump. So let's talk about the fact that Donald Trump came into office and spent almost the entire first year of his term trying to get rid of the Affordable Care Act."
"Senator Sanders and I have worked valiantly to bring down the cost of pharmaceuticals," said Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar."And while Bernie wrote the bill, I read the bill. And on page eight -- on page eight of the bill, it says that we will no longer have private insurance as we know it." "So, let's be clear, I've actually never met anybody who likes their health insurance company. I've met people who like their doctors, I met people who like their nurses, I've met people who like their pharmacists, I met people who like their physical therapists. What they want is access to health care," Warren said.
"We need -- we need a health care system that guarantees health care to all people as every other major country does, not a system which provides $100 billion a year in profit for the drug companies and the insurance companies. I'll tell you how absurd the system is tonight on ABC, the health care industry will be advertising, telling you how bad medicare for all is, because they want to protect their profits. That is absurd," Sanders said.
"So as far, my distinguished friend, the senator on my left has not indicated how she pays for it and the senator has," Biden said gesturing to Sanders and Warren."In fact, come forward and said how he's going to pay for it, but it gets him halfway there." Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., pitched his long-standing message of fundamental economic change to benefit the country's working class:"It goes without saying that we must and will defeat Trump, the most dangerous president in the history of this country. But we must do more. We must do more. We have got to recognize that this country is moving into a form of society where a handful of billionaires control the economic and political life of this country.
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker struck a unifying tone in his opening statement:"That's the story of America. At our best, we unify, we find common cause and common purpose. The differences amongst us Democrats on the stage are not as great as the urgency for us to unite as a party, not just to beat Donald Trump, but to unite America in common cause and common purpose," Booker said.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar ribbed President Donald Trump in her opening statement at Thursday's debate. "I may not be the loudest person up here, but I think we've already got that in the white house. Houston, we have a problem. This -- we have a guy there that is literally running our country like a game show. He would rather lie than lead," Klobuchar said.
The four moderators for the third Democratic debate - ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos, ABC News"World News Tonight" Anchor and Managing Editor David Muir, ABC News Correspondent Linsey Davis and Univision Anchor Jorge Ramos will moderate - introduce the candidates on stage in order of their podium placements:
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