Pete Buttigieg on his decision to come out and the response he got afterwards: 'I came back from the deployment and realized that you only get to live one life' DemDebate
The 10 highest-polling candidates appeared 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.The candidates are all smiles and Andrew Yang even blew a kiss as they left the stage.
He added:"There's nobody that gets tested more in a position of public trust than the president of the United States. This president has failed that test. But I want you to know that if you elect me president, I won't." O'Rourke told the story of a soccer coach who was shot in El Paso last month, and his desire to continue to do his job, and spoke to the city's ability to come together in the face of tragedy.
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is openly gay, got candid about his decision to come out and the response he got afterwards. She continued:"Here's resilience. I said, I'll go to law school. I practiced law for about 45 minutes and then went back to my first love, which is teaching...the reason I'm standing here today is because I got back up, I fought back."
Former Vice President Biden was interrupted by protesters during an answer on what the most significant professional setback he's faced was."My dad had an expression. He said, Joey, it's not a question of succeeding, whether you get knocked down, it's how quickly you get up, and he said, you never explain and never complain," Biden said after the protesters were removed rom the debate hall.
Julián Castro:"It is a myth that charter schools are better than public schools. They're not." https://t.co/T37EaVOvlU #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/mSeVOvJQaC Elizabeth Warren:"I think I'm the only person on this stage who has been a public school teacher." https://t.co/INdRXlIwFs #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/Ovs9n4ABOP
Andrew Yang, one of the most vocal proponents for charter schools, said on his support,"I am pro-good school. I've got a kid, one of my little boys just started public school last week, and I was not there because I was running for president. "I also want to talk about where we are here at TSU, and what it means in terms of HBCUs. I have -- as part of my proposal, that we will put $2 trillion into investing in our HBCUs for teachers, because -- because -- because, one, as a proud graduate of a historically black college and university, I will say -- I will say that it is our HBCUs that disproportionately produce teachers and those who serve in these positions," Harris said.
"When I've been in the United States Senate for now the last two and a half years and I look at our counterparts, the Republicans in the United States Senate, they must be looking at their children and then when they look at the mirror, I don't know what they see, but it's a lack of courage," Harris said.
"We will make sure that we get to net zero greenhouse gas emissions no later than the year 2050, that we are halfway there by 2030, that we mobilize $5 trillion over the next ten years to do that, that we invest here in Houston, Texas, with pre-disaster mitigation grants to protect those communities that are vulnerable to flooding, given the fact that this town has seen three 500-year floods in just five years," O'Rourke added.
"With regard to Iraq, the fact of the matter is that, you know, I should have never voted to give bush the authority to go in and do what he did," Biden said. South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a U.S. Navy veteran and the only candidate on stage Thursday with military experience, advocated for a drawdown of the War in Afghanistan.
"We need to bring our troops home," she said."Then we need to make a big shift. We can not ask our military to keep solving problems that cannot be solved militarily." "You literally have him using a national security waiver to put tariffs on Canada. I'm the only person on this stage that finds Trudeau's hair very menacing, but they are not a national security threat," the famously bald Booker said.
As she has done several times throughout the debate, Harris then hit at President Trump, asserting in jest,"But the bottom line is this, Donald Trump in office on trade policy, you know, he reminds me of that guy in"The Wizard of Oz," you know, when you pull back the curtain, it's a really small dude?"
"We have to let the Chinese know that we recognize that President Trump has pursued an arbitrary and haphazard trade policy that has had victims on both sides," Yang said. "Anyone who supports this is supporting racism...The only people, though, who actually buy into this president's hateful rhetoric around immigrants are people who don't know any," Buttigieg said."We have an opportunity to actually get something done. But we cannot allow this continue to be the same debate with the same arguments and the same clever lines often among the same people since the last real reform happened in the 1980s," he warned.
After Biden defended the Obama administration's record on immigration, Castro criticized the former Vice President for invoking his former boss only when it's convenient. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren pivoted from mass shootings to talk about the gun violence epidemic happening everyday in the country.
"We have had more people die due to gun violence in my lifetime than every single war in this country combined from the revolutionary war until now. This is not a side issue to me. It is a central issue to me," Booker said in response to a follow up question from World News Tonight Anchor David Muir.
Harris, as multiple candidates on stage have already done, invoked former President Barack Obama and his signature campaign slogan when discussing her ability to carry out gun control via executive order. She added:"I will make sure we don't just do the First Step Act when it comes to criminal sentencing, that we move to the Second Step Act."
As he followed suit with his democratic rivals, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg addressed the system racism in the country, saying, it"preceded this president and even when we defeat him, it will be with us." "It's nice to go back to slavery, but we have a criminal justice system that is so racially biased, we have more African-Americans under criminal supervision today than all the slaves in 1850. We have to come at this issue attacking systemic racism, having the courage to call it out and having a plan to do something about it," he added.
Amid a tense moment between some of his fellow contenders, Andrew Yang said,"We know we're on the same team here. We know we're on the same team. We all have a better vision for health care than our current president." "If you notice, nobody's yet said how much it's going to cost the taxpayer. I hear this, large savings, the president -- my friend from Vermont thinks that the employer is going to give back if you negotiate as a union all these years, got a cut in wages because you got insurance. They're going to give back that money to the employee?" Biden asked Sanders."Well let me tell you something.
"The problem, Senator Sanders, with the damn bill that you wrote, and that Senator Warren backs, is that it doesn't trust the American people. I trust you to choose what makes the most sense for you. Not my way or the highway," Buttigieg said. Sen. Amy Klobuchar:"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. We have a guy there that is literally running our country like a game show" https://t.co/T37EaVOvlU #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/oLXwsx3tv6
"This is about candor, honesty," the former vice president said."The tax of 2% that the Senator [Warren] is talking about, that raises about $3 billion. Guess what? That leaves you $28 billion short. The senator said before, it's going to cost you in your -- there will be a deductible - in your paycheck. You’re gonna -- The middle class person, someone making 60 grand with three kids, they're going to end up paying $5,000 more.
Former Vice President Joe Biden kicked off the debate and pushed back on the health care plan being pitched by Warren and Sanders, Medicare for All. California Sen. Kamala Harris targets President Donald Trump:"But here's what you don't get. What you don't get you is that the American people are so much better than this. And we know that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us, regardless of our race, where we live or the party with which we're registered to vote ... And now, President Trump, you can go back to watching Fox News.
Former Vice President Biden called back to a speech President John F. Kennedy gave when he launched the"Moonshot Program" to land on the moon:"We're walking around with our heads down like “woe is me.” We're the best-equipped nation in the world to take this on. It's no longer time to postpone. We should get moving. There's enormous, enormous opportunities once we get rid of Donald Trump," Biden said.
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang announced on tonight's debate stage 10 new people to receive the"Freedom Dividend," a $1000 a month payment, his signature campaign policy, according to a Yang campaign source. Three people already received the payment from Yang, bring the total number of people receiving the dividend to 13. The source tells ABC News he will use campaign funds to make the payment.
"There will be life after Donald Trump. But the truth is that our problems didn't start just with Donald Trump and we won't solve them by embracing old ideas. We need a bold vision," he said."We have to win... it's what I can do in this race get back Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia and Arizona and finally turn Texas blue and say good-bye to Donald Trump.
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