Has got to all: how were the second pre-election debates of the Democrats

The second part of the debate of potential US Democratic presidential candidates took place on Thursday 27 June. From this part of the audience expected entertainment and not disappointed, writes with the BBC.

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The second ten participants included party heavyweights - former US Vice President Joe Biden and 2016 White House race participant Bernie Sanders.

Debaters:

• Ex-Vice President Joe Biden
• Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders
• California Senator Kamala harris
• Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttidzic
• Senator from New York State Kirsten Gillibrand
• Colorado Senator Michael bennett
• Ex-Governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper
• California Congressman Eric Swalwell
• Famous writer in the genre of self-help Marianne Williamson
• Businessman Andrew Young

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Racism: a skeleton in Biden's closet

It was expected that the heated debate would be between Biden and Sanders. Both are veterans of American politics and both are leading in popularity among the Democratic Party electorate.

But California Senator Kamala Harris decided to immediately come out of the shadows and became the most memorable participant in the debate. Harris is the only black woman seeking the Democratic nomination. She reminded Biden of the events of forty years ago, when he, a young senator from Delaware, was one of the most vocal supporters of the policy of racial segregation in schools.

In particular, he strongly opposed the fact that white and black children went in the same school buses. In 1970-ies, this issue was discussed as the first step towards desegregation in American schools.

Biden insisted that his position was then incorrectly interpreted and he was an active opponent of racism, but Harris was ruthless.

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“At that time in California, there was a little girl, a second-grader in public school, who rode this bus every day. And this girl was me,” the senator continued.

When Harris asked whether he publicly refused his actions and thoughts at the beginning of his political career, Biden said that he opposed only the implementation of this policy at the federal level, but had nothing against its application at the state level.

He also recalled that he served two terms as vice president during the first black president Barack Obama in US history.

Heavy Artillery vs Trump

Bernie Sanders, another party favorite, defended his free health theory for all Americans for half an hour.

Sanders is a socialist, and many of his ideas go against the very foundation of the American capital system. However, he is popular both among the electorate and among the party leadership, since his vision of the domestic agenda is directly opposite to that of Donald Trump.

Sanders called Trump on air “a pathological liar and a racist.”

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It got on the part of racism and the young mayor of the city of South Bend in Indiana Pete Buttidzhichu. Harvard graduate, a former US naval intelligence officer, open-air gay Buttidzhich is considered a very strong competitor in the fight of the twenty.

He is criticized for failing to bring order to the power structures of his city: a black man was recently shot dead by a white police officer in South Bend.

Road to the young

The two leaders of the race, Biden and Sanders, are well over 70: the first is 76 years old, the second is 77. Biden, for example, considers this a hallmark of a competent and consistent politician.

However, during the debate, he was again returned to the distant past.

“I was six years old when Mr. Presidential candidate [Joe Biden] spoke at the Democratic Convention in California and said, “It’s time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans. That was true 32 years ago, but it's also true now,” said California Congressman Eric Swalwell, 38.

“I still hold this torch pretty tightly,” retorted Biden, who if he wins the election will become the oldest president of the United States.

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In turn, Kamala Harris made it clear several times that the time had come to give a woman a chance to take the top post. Although the debates for her, too, did not go smoothly: Harris had to answer questions about the period of time when she held the position of California Attorney General (2011-2017 years).

Then she was accused of having prosecutors on the ground used false testimony with her, hid evidence and lied under oath, but she did not conduct a proper investigation.

The result of two rounds: winners and losers

Following two days of controversy in the camp of the Democrats, the winners at this stage were California senator Kamala Harris, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, and former Obama administration minister Julian Castro.

Harris found the best moments for her replicas and used the most figurative examples in a number of important questions. For example, when it came to public health, she asked those present to present the mother of a sick child at the door of intensive care, wondering if it was worth paying for his insurance a lot of money that she could now spend on treatment.

Elizabeth Warren was lucky: the composition of her scores was simpler, and she avoided many unpleasant questions that she would certainly ask if she got into the second group. She almost did not have to defend, and she only strengthened her position among the party favorites.

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Julian Castro's Mexican roots and his own story of a child of migrants helped him to emerge victorious in a verbal duel with opponents on the very acute subject of illegal migration.

Joe Biden looked the worst - he suffered the most - and ex-Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke, who sounded unconvinced on almost every issue.

All the others, except for Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttidzhich, also pumped up.

Saunders was Saunders, spoke the usual things for him and never stumbled. Buttidzhich sounded very reasonable and balanced. Apparently, his main battle is still ahead.

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Trump's Reaction

Donald Trump, who watched the debate from Japan, where he participates in the G20 summit, believes that from now on the participation of Democrats in the presidential race can be considered a symbolic number.

“All Democrats just voted to give millions of illegal aliens unlimited health care. How about we take care of America's citizens first? This is the end of their race!

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• June 18 evening Trump officially announced the start of his election campaign. Presidential supporters in Orlando (Florida), where the performance took place, began to take place in two daysbecause there were more people willing to hear the president than seats in the hall.
• “We will continue to make America great again, and then of course we will maintain America’s greatness. That is why, tonight, standing before you, I announce the official launch of my re-election campaign for the presidency of the United States. I promise you that I will never, never let you down, ”said Trump, addressing the crowd.
• The 59 US Presidential Election will be held on November 3 on 2020. The first party activist meetings during the upcoming presidential campaign will be held in Iowa in early February 2020. The Democratic Party convention, which will nominate a presidential candidate, will be held from 13 to 16 in July 2020 in Milwaukee (WI). Republicans will hold their convention from 24 to 27 on August 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
• At the moment, Trump is one of two presidential candidates for the Republican Party, the former Massachusetts Governor William Weld is trying to compete with him; for the right to nominate the Democratic Party are fighting 24 challenger, the most famous of which are former vice president Joe Biden and senator from Vermont state Bernie Sanders.
• First debate potential US presidential candidates from the Democratic Party took place 26 June and were not too vigorous. Ten out of more than twenty candidates for nomination agreed in Miami (Florida), but, as many experts noted, they were in no hurry to rush into battle, starting the conversation with very general statements.

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