June Democratic candidates debate in Miami FL: on Principles & Values
Andrew Yang:
Let's build a forward coalition toward democracy
I am proof that our democracy still works. Democrats and Americans have one question, who can beat Donald Trump? The right candidate to beat Trump will be solving the problems that got Trump elected, and have a vision of a trickle-up economy that is
already drawing thousands of disaffected Trump voters, conservatives, independents, and libertarians, as well as Democrats and progressives. I can build a much broader coalition to beat Donald Trump. It is not left; it is not right. It is forward.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Jun 27, 2019
Eric Swalwell:
Biden said 32 years ago "pass the torch" to new generation
We must always be a county where technology creates more jobs than it displaces. I was 6 years old when a presidential candidate came to the California Democratic Convention and said it's time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans.
That candidate was then-Senator Joe Biden. Joe Biden was right when he said it 32 years ago. He is still right today.
If we are going to solve the issues of automation, pass the torch. If we are going to solve the issues of climate chaos, pass the torch.
If we're going to solve the issue of student loan debt, pass the torch. If we're going to end gun violence for families who are fearful of sending their kids to school, pass the torch.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Jun 27, 2019
Eric Swalwell:
Democrats must look to the future, not the past
We can't be a forward-looking party if we look to the past. I'm a father of a 2-year-old and an infant. When I'm not changing diapers, I'm changing Washington. Most of the time, the diapers smell better. I have led the effort to elect
the next generation of members of Congress. This is the generation that will end climate chaos. This is the generation that will solve student loan debt. This is the generation that will end gun violence. This generation demands bold solutions.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Jun 27, 2019
Joe Biden:
A united America can move forward
I think it's important we restore the soul of this nation. This president has ripped it out. It's the only president in our history who has equated racists and white supremacists with ordinary and decent people. He's the only president who has, in
fact, engaged and embraced dictators and thumbed their nose at our allies. We have to restore the backbone of America, the poor and hardworking middle class people. There's not a single thing the American people can't do if we're together.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Jun 27, 2019
Kamala Harris:
A president who leads with dignity, honesty, truth
This election is about your hopes and dreams and what wakes you up at 3 o'clock in the morning. That's why I have what I call a 3 a.m. agenda that is about everything from what we need to do to deliver health care to how you will be able to pay the
bills by the end of the month. I will be a president who leads with a sense of dignity, with honesty, speaking the truth, and giving the American family all that they need to get through the end of the month in a way that allows them to prosper.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Jun 27, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand:
Women in America are on fire; not the time to play it safe
Women in America are on fire. Our rights are under attack like never before. I will take on the fights that no one else will. I've stood up to Trump more than any other senator in the U.S. Senate. I have the most comprehensive approach for getting
money out of politics with publicly funded elections to deal with political corruption. Now is not the time to play it safe. Now is not the time to be afraid of firsts. We need a president who will take on the big challenges, even if she stands alone.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Jun 27, 2019
Marianne Williamson:
Trump harnesses fear for political purposes; love beats that
Donald Trump is not going to be beaten just by insider politics talk. He's not going to be beaten just somebody who has plans. So, Mr. President, if you're listening, I want you to hear me, please. You have harnessed fear for political purposes and only
love can cast that out. I have a feeling you know what you're doing. I'm going to harness love for political purposes. I will meet you on that field. And, sir, love will win.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Jun 27, 2019
Michael Bennet:
Socialist policies are like giving candy to voters
Q [to Bernie Sanders]: What is your response to those who say nominating a "socialist" would re-elect Donald Trump?SANDERS: [Trump is trying] to throw 32 million people off their health care 83% of tax benefits go to the top 1%.
Q: [to Bennet]: You
have said, "It's possible to write policy proposals that have no basis in reality. You might as well call them candy." Were you referring to any proposal in particular?
facing as a country is, 40 years of no economic growth for 90% of the American people; and we've got the worst income inequality that we've had in 100 years. Where I disagree is on his solution of Medicare for all. Health care is a right. We need to get
to universal health care. I believe the way to do that is by finishing the work we started with ObamaCare and creating a public option. Bernie mentioned taxes that we would have to pay. Because of those taxes, Vermont rejected Medicare for all.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Jun 27, 2019
Michael Bennet:
Improvement with each generation now at risk
My mom and her parents came to the United States to rebuild their shattered lives, in the only country that they could. Three hundred years before that, my parents' family came searching religious freedom here. The ability for one generation to do
better than the next is now severely at risk in the United States. I believe we need to build a broad coalition of Americans to beat Donald Trump, end the corruption in Washington, and build a new era of American democracy and American opportunity.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Jun 27, 2019
Michael Bennet:
Jewish mother survived Holocaust in Warsaw Ghetto
Michael Bennet said in the first round of Democratic primary debates about Trump's policy of separating children from their parents at the Mexican border, "When I see these kids at the border, I see my mom, because I know she sees herself, because she
was separated from her parents for years during the Holocaust in Poland." Does that mean Michael Bennet's mother is a Holocaust survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto and therefore that Bennet is Jewish? We checked.Yes, Bennet's mother, Susanne Christine
Klejman, was born in the Warsaw Ghetto (where Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany imprisoned Polish Jews during WWII), in 1938. Her parents survived and she emigrated to America in 1950.
Bennet's father, Douglas Bennet, is a Christian. Under Jewish religious
law, anyone born to a Jewish mother is automatically Jewish, including those with Christian fathers. Michael Bennet married his wife via an Episcopal priest, and says he believes in God, but observes neither Jewish nor Christian religious rituals.
Source: OnTheIssues FactCheck on June Democratic Primary debate
Jun 27, 2019
Pete Buttigieg:
Politics is not theoretical; our generation must deliver
Nothing about politics is theoretical for me. I've experienced being in a marriage that exists by the grace of a single vote on the Supreme Court. I'm running because the decisions we make in the next three or four years are going to decide how the next
30 or 40 go. When I get to the age of the current president in the year 2055, I want to be able to look back and say my generation delivered climate solutions, racial equality, and an end to endless war
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Jun 27, 2019
Amy Klobuchar:
I passed over 100 bills because I listen and I act
I listen to people and that's how I get things done. That is my focus. I have a track record of passing over 100 bills where I'm the lead Democrat. And that is because I listened and I acted.
And I think that's important in a president. Everything else just melts away. I am not the establishment party candidate. But I can promise you this. I am going to govern with integrity.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (first night in Miami)
Jun 26, 2019
Beto O`Rourke:
New politics for the urgency of the next generation
Our daughter, Molly, turned 11 this week. I'm on this stage for her, for children across this country, including some her same age who've been separated from their parents and are sleeping on concrete floors under aluminum blankets tonight.
If we're going to be there for them, we can't return to the same old approach.
We're going to need a new kind of politics, one directed by the urgency of the next generation, those climate activists, who are fighting not just for their future
but for everyone's, those students marching not just for their lives but for all of ours.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (first night in Miami)
Jun 26, 2019
Beto O`Rourke:
Can't let Trump abuse power; must act to save democracy
Q: As president, would you do anything to address the potential crimes that were outlined in Mr. Mueller's report?O'Rourke: Yes. If we set a precedent that a candidate who invited the participation of a foreign power, a president who sought
to obstruct the investigation into the invasion of our democracy, if we allow him to get away with this with complete impunity, then we will have set a new standard, and that is that some people, because of the position of power and public trust that
they hold, are above the law. And we cannot allow that to stand. So we must begin impeachment now so that we have the facts and save this democracy.
And if we've not been able to do that, our Department of Justice will pursue these facts and ensure that there are consequences, there is accountability, and there is justice.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate on Mueller Report
Jun 26, 2019
Cory Booker:
I've taken on bullies & won, by seeing common purpose
I've taken on bullies and beat them. I've taken on tough fights and we've won. And we win those fights not by showing the worst of who we are, by rising to who's best. Donald Trump wants us to fight him on his turf and his terms.
We will beat him, I will beat him by calling this country to a sense of common purpose again.
This is a referendum on him and getting rid of him, but it's also a referendum on us, who we are, and who we must be to each other. It's time we win this election.
And the way I'll govern is by showing the best of who we are because that's what this country needs and deserves.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (first night in Miami)
Jun 26, 2019
John Delaney:
Real solutions, not impossible promises
I believe we need to operate in a bipartisan manner. I will sign into law bills that come to the White House that are passed on a party-line basis, absolutely. But all the big transformative things we've ever done in this country's
history have happened when huge majorities of the American people get behind them. If we become the party of getting things done for the American people, with real solutions and not impossible promises, we'll be able to get all these things done.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (first night in Miami)
Jun 26, 2019
John Delaney:
America used to do things; let's get back to those roots
Together we are on a mission to find the America that's been lost. We're so much better than this. We're a country that used to do things. We saved the world. We created the American dream for millions of people like myself, the grandson of immigrants,
the son of a union electrician who went on to become a successful business leader and create thousands of jobs. But we did these things with real solutions, not with impossible promises. And those are the roots that we have to get back to.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (first night in Miami)
Jun 26, 2019
John Delaney:
Trump could be prosecuted, but it's not an issue for voters
Q: No U.S. president has ever been prosecuted for crimes after leaving office. Do you believe that President Trump should be the first?Delaney: I guess there's always a first. This president, who is lawless, should not be above the law.
But I will tell you, the one thing when you're out doing as much campaigning as I've done, this is not the number-one issue the American people ask us about.
They want to know what we're going to do for health care, how we're going to lower pharmaceutical prices, how we're going to build infrastructure, what we're going to do to create jobs in their communities.
These kind of kitchen-table, pocket-book issues are actually what most Americans care about. They never ask about the Mueller Report.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate on Mueller Report
Jun 26, 2019
Julian Castro:
Estoy postulando por presidente de los Estados Unidos
Me llamo Julián Castro, y estoy postulando por presidente de los Estados Unidos. [My name is Julian Castro, and I'm running for president of the United States].The very fact that I can say that tonight shows the progress that
we have made in this country. Like many of you, I know the promise of America. My grandmother came here when she was 7 years old as an immigrant from Mexico, and just two generations later, one of her grandsons is serving in the
United States Congress and the other one is running for president of the United States.
If I'm elected president, I will work hard every single day so that you and your family can get good health care, your child can get a
good education, and that you can have good job opportunities, whether you live in a big city or a small town. And on January 20, 2021, we'll say adios to Donald Trump.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (first night in Miami)
Jun 26, 2019
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