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© (Thomson Reuters 2020.Six Democratic U.S. presidential candidates square off in debate
By Tim Reid and Michael Martina DES MOINES, Iowa©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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No Business
Trump will wipe the floor with any of these poor candidates.
Andrew Crisp
Those six have no hope, Trump is gonna cruise to an easy victory in November 2020.
Blacklabel
Poor quality candidates all around. Warren claiming Bernie said something he didn’t say. Moderator says to Bernie “so when you said that.....”
why are Dems so scared to let their voters pick Bernie?
WilliB
The idea of anyone from that clown show as president should scare people, unless they live in the media bubble. The least bad choice here would be Bernie, as insane as his platform is, because at least he is honest.
WilliB
Andrew Crisp:
I hope so, but don´t underestimate the power of fake media, Soros Open Society Foundation, and Big Tech. Have you noticed how biased Youtube has become, with the search and the throttling of politically unwelcome channels? Facebook, Twitter, and Hollywood I dont even need to mention. Google is on record for "working on this", with "this" being preventing a Trump victory. And you might want read up on "Mind the Gap" their behind-the-curtain meddling. There is quite a powerful dark force out there.
TheLongTermer
Its funny watching them, so much care and concern for all the interest of the down trodden, but their true character shows when they attack each other.
Always entertaining..)
Blacklabel
Yep sooner or later one of them can’t help themselves and will want to actually win.
then the fun begins.
I think warren struck first by planting a fake Bernie sexist comment. I don’t think he said it and she has lied multiple times already.
mrtinjp
And the only candidate (Tulsi G) who can fight Trump is kept out of the debate, great, as long they do this Trump will cruise easily. Just like last time, Trump is counting on the the Dems to keep the real candidate out of the nomination/debate.
TheLongTermer
Interesting how they call Trump racist and vile, when there isnt a person of color on the stage, and all thats left are old rich white people, with the exception of the strange man from Indiana. There is no unity or love amoungst these people; and nobody knows what their agenda is. Confused bunch.
Zaphod
martinjp:
Yep. The only one who speaks against the globalist warmongers. But yeah, she gets the Trump treatment by the propanda media. Sickening.
MSR Japan
Haha clown circus, this bunch is all the dems have to offer hehehe and they sit here slamming trump hehehe.
Jimizo
It doesn’t negate the idea that he is racist and vile.
This field isn’t a strong one, but perhaps it’s worth remembering that Trump lost the popular vote to one of the worst candidates in my lifetime.
If the economy holds up, four more years of trash looks likely.
commanteer
Funny, Tulsi is excluded and not even mentioned by the press, They really are afraid of candidates who haven't been corrupted. The fact that Bernie is still up there suggests that he may be more compromised than he was 4 years ago.
Attilathehungry
We also need to note precisely who is to blame for the lack of diversity on the stage. That blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the Democratic Party and their party members, who by their votes and support have turned their campaign into a whitewash. The only two remaining People of Color, Yang and Gabbert, were kept off the stage by arcane rules and regulations.
On the diversity front, also worth noting that the Republicans had People of Color as three of their top five candadates for their party's nomination in 2016, right to the end.
So who are the racists really.....
N30N0M3N
The Republicrat Circus is on the road again. Both parties support the same industries. Sham government.
ulysses
In case you forgot the last American President was a person of color and a Democrat.
He suffered vile abuse, had racist conspiracy theories put our against him and even misrepresented for his religion by the right wing bigots, led by the current President .
That fact slipped you mind????
CrazyJoe
I'm voting blue, no matter who, and I hope you do too.
Every single one of these candidates has more intelligence in their little finger than Trump has in his entire family!
Jimizo
Aside from this filth were the religious crackpots calling him the anti-Christ.
And Trump whines like a baby about attacks on him? He should take a look back in time at how a proper man deals with attacks.
ulysses
The GOP led by donny.
stormcrow
Sen. Amy Klobuchar was absolutely right about the impeachment proceedings. If Moscow Mitch and the Republican controlled senate won't allow 4 witnesses to be called, then you may as well hand Trump a crown and scepter. She went on to say that the U.S. isn't a monarchy but a democracy. She nailed that one.
Attilathehungry
Love to hear from some of the more hysterical commenters here what Trump has done since he was elected to promote his racist agenda... or how you can come to terms with the remarkable diversity in the GOP in their previous leadership campaign.
Yep, Trump hates minorities so much he has created an economy that has lowered their unemployment rates to historic lows!
prossnip42
If anybody but Bernie, Tulsi or Yang get "elected" (rigged) against Trump you might as well just hand him the victory right then and there. His supporters have never been as motivated as they are now
Attilathehungry
Stormcrow- Speaker Pelosi had her chance to call ALL the witnesses she wanted during the House impeachment hearings. She chose not to do so. She cant tell the Senate what to do in their trial any more than the Senate could have interfered in the House proceedings. She can't get over the idea that she has been outmanoeuvered by Cocaine Mitch.
As for the debate candidates, none of them seem like they actually WANT to be President. It was a snoozefest all around. If you are going to challenge an incumbent President, you need some fire in your belly. I saw no fire tonight on the stage.
Madden
Yang 2020! Shameful that they won't let him at the debate!
bass4funk
What a joke that was. None of these clowns can beat Trump. Gawd, I hope they nominate Sanders, I just hope! Lol
Blacklabel
Yep the House could have called anyone they wanted and they had sole subpoena power.
Now that Repubs can subpoena Dens expect them to only call more Dem witnesses?
muh hope.
Jimizo
Do you think they’d be less clownish if they cracked knob jokes, made up idiotic childish names for their opponents and lied about telling their supporters to watch non-existent sex tapes during debates?
Would that make them less clownish and become more serious human beings?
Blacklabel
Can you seriously imagine any of those people being president? Be honest.
Jimizo
Yes. None of them talked about their genitals, made up idiotic nicknames and lied about asking people to watch a non-existent sex tape during a televised debate.
They are certainly more grown-up than the petulant overgrown child in charge now.
Blacklabel
Only because of that?? No special wonderful skill, ability or characteristics they personally have that qualifies them over others?
Just that they aren’t Trump? You lost that way last time.
remember the guy who did all those things you complaining about? He won even after that. So it wasn’t so bad as you try to make it sound or he would have lost.
Viktor Cernatinskij
Baba-Jiji talk!
Our top priority is to make the ratio between highest and lowest paid in a company equal to 10. Now this ratio in US is 250! In Japan and Germany is 10 only. We desperately need a law limiting this ratio to 10.
How long are we going to tolerate useless stupid politicians who have no clue what are our priorities???
Watching this debate is a total waste of time!
The current president is a moron, the candidates are morons, who do we vote for?
Jimizo
Well, Trump came into office with no political experience. His background was in bankruptcies, reality TV and conspiracy theories. As I said, this isn’t a strong field but I’d say all of them are more mature, some clearly more intelligent, some with military experience etc.
I’m not getting why any of them are more preposterous than Trump.
bass4funk
Then they would get more respect actually, but talking about garbage they can and never will fulfill is just amazing how millennials will gobble up this crap.
Nothing can save these people I’m afraid, but on the bright sunny side of things, when Warren, Sanders and Binden that’ll be the last we hear from them, this is where I do give Kamala Harris props, she’s thinking long term and might want to run again, so she took it like an adult and dropped out, good move. But Biden Sanders and Warren, once this is over, that will be their curtain call
bass4funk
But he made a name for himself in Real Estate and TV, none of these Dems have truly done anything worth even a little bragging rights.
His background was in bankruptcies, reality TV and conspiracy theories. As I said, this isn’t a strong field but I’d say all of them are more mature
Mature? We’re going to get rid of college debt, the middle class won’t get taxed, we don’t believe in income we distribution on the middle-class, that’s not mature at all that’s just a flat out lie.
Ahhh, none of them could even come close to filling a water cup. Show me one of these candidates that can pack a stadium with over 20,000 people.
Jimizo
All politicians do that before elections. Trump said at various points he’d get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, build a wall, ban all Muslims entering the US, replace Obamacare with something better at a fraction of the cost etc.
It’s part of the game. Imagine the idiots who believed that garbled trash.
ulysses
The joke is in the WH.
When donny can be president, we can imagine anyone, even a Dodo as a President.
ROFL, he used daddy's money, bankrupted himself many times over and ended up with less money than he would have had if he had just put it in the bank.
So did Jerry Springer, he might be a better choice frankly.
Buttigeg served in Afghanistan whereas donny bonepurred himself out of Vietnam.
Klobuchar: Fought for women rights
.......
We can go on you know, all donny would still have is his bankruptcies
MSR Japan
Keep whinning on you, dems have nothing to offer but just hate trump, and seriously that isnt going to be enough to change who sits in the big person chair in the oval office. So I suggest you either front up with some one of caliber or just shut up and accept the fact that person who is in charge of america for the next 4 years wrecks your heads and you cant do a damn thing about it hahahaha.
As much as you do not like it that is the reality of it.
Last time you had a chance you put that idiot obama in the chair FFS.
lincolnman
So do Putin and Trump - that's why they've had these recent two phone calls, where there's no transcript, to talk about Russia hacking into Burisma and planting some fake dirt on Biden...
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/796195444/russia-hacked-company-linked-to-trump-impeachment-security-firm-says
Come on Trumpers, admit it - Trump/Pence 2020 is really Trump/Putin 2020....
Sure did; by discriminating against people of color and bankrupting Casinos...it takes a real level of incompetence to bankrupt a casino...
By hosting a third rate reality TV show - just like The Kardashians...
Just serving their country in government...