Booker hits Biden over legalization, the former vice president brags about his support from black voters, Buttigieg escapes relatively unscathed and more highlights from Wednesday's debate in Atlanta.
The fifth gathering of Democratic candidates, held in Atlanta and sponsored by MSNBC, came in the shadow of the impeachment hearings and resulted in a mostly civil exchange as candidates, with some exceptions, pushed policy differences over personal attacks. The frontrunners mostly escaped without much damage, while those in danger of not qualifying for next month’s debate made their cases for support to a national audience.
Booker continued: “With more African-Americans under criminal supervision in America than all the slaves since 1850, do not roll up into communities and not talk directly to issues that are going to relate to the liberation of children. There are people in Congress right now that admit to smoking marijuana, while our kids are in jail right now for those drug crimes.”Asked to respond, Biden said he supports the decriminalization of marijuana.
Biden then recounted several of his African-American endorsements, including, he said, “the only African-American woman ever elected to the United States Senate.”Harris, an African-American woman elected to the United States Senate and running against Biden, raised her hands and laughed.“I said the first,” Biden protested. “I said the first.”
Klobuchar did later refer to Buttigieg as a “local official,” comparing his office as mayor with her position as a U.S. senator. Harris also chose to let Buttigieg off the hook when asked about his dismal polling among black voters, choosing not to capitalize on the controversy around his Douglass Plan to help African-Americans. The one candidate who did go after Buttigieg was Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who implied, inaccurately, that he had proposed sending U.S.
Foreign policy in the spotlightWhile the impeachment inquiry into President Trump over dealings with Ukraine got some attention during the debate, often prompted by the moderators, the issue of U.S. foreign policy in general was raised several times by the candidates themselves.
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