We're two-thirds of the way through tonight's DemDebate in Ohio. The candidates have debated guns, the opioid crisis and more. Get caught up on what's happened so far:
The Democratic presidential contenders are in Westerville, Ohio, for the fourth primary matchup of the season.
"Because I’ve watched it. I know what the job is," Biden said."I've been engaged. Look, one of the reasons I'm running is because of my age and my experience. With it, comes wisdom. We need someone to take office, this time around, who on day-one can stand on the world stage, command the respect of world leaders from Putin to our allies, and know exactly what has to be done to get this country back on track.
With 3 of the Democratic candidates in their 70s, will age be a factor in determining the nominee? @FiveThirtyEight’s @NateSilver538 crunches the numbers. https://t.co/G7K5oxYJeP pic.twitter.com/ymZKtUfzBq Sen. Amy Klobucher took on manufacturers during the first question on ending the rural crisis in rural America.
In the middle of his answer on preventing gun violence with handguns, former HUD Secretary Julian Castro invoked the incident with Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year old woman who was fatally shot over the weekend while in her home by a Fort Worth, Texas cop who was responding to a call for a welfare check:"A cop showed up at 2 in the morning at her house when she was playing video games with her nephew and within four seconds he shot and killed her through her home window.
In her answer on gun reform, Sen. Elizabeth Warren reiterated her support for eliminating the filibuster, arguing,"I stood in the United States Senate in 2013 when 54 senators voted in favor of gun legislation and it didn't pass because of the filibuster." After weeks of criticism leading up to this face-to-face debate, Mayor Pete Buttigieg spar in person over this gun buyback program.
As her fellow Democrats discussed the dangerous influence of Vladimir Putin on the world stage, Sen. Amy Klobuchar took on how his influence could affect American elections here at home. Yang warns that the U.S. is"decades behind" technological advancements and that election meddling is the prime example of this. "Russian hacking of our democracy is an illustration of the 20th-century threats," Yang argued."Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, climate change, loose nuclear material, military drones and non-state actors. These are the threats that are going to require our administration to catch up in terms of technology.
Sen. Cory Booker came with the most concerted uniter-not-a-divider strategy. First he defended Biden about attacks on his son’s business record against … no one on stage. Then he played the role of worrier about Dem-on-Dem violence: “Tearing each other down because we have a different plan to me is unacceptable.”We are also seeing a very different Mayor Pete Buttigieg in this debate. Repeatedly he has called out his Democratic colleagues on issues he disagrees with them with a new frankness.
Pete Buttigieg to Tulsi Gabbard:"I think that is dead wrong. The slaughter going on in Syria is not a consequence of American presence, it a consequence of a withdrawal and a betrayal by this president of American allies and American values." https://t.co/E5cfLKiR1V #DemDebate "Donald Trump has the blood of the Kurds on his hand, but so do many of the politicians in our country from both parties who have supported this ongoing regime-change war in Syria that started in 2011, along with many in the mainstream media, who have been championing and cheerleading this regime-change war," Gabbard said.
"I think we ought to get out of the Middle East," Warren said."I don't think we should have troops in the Middle East, but we have to do it the right way, the smart way. What this president has done is that he has sucked up to dictators, he has made impulsive decisions that often his own team doesn't understand."
Joe Biden:"We have an erratic, crazy president who knows not a damn thing about foreign policy and operates out of fear for his own re-election." https://t.co/lH3olhjI2I #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/29BofMavIQ But Warren fired back, saying,"I'm really shocked at the notion that anyone thinks I'm being punitive. Look, I don't have a beef with billionaires. My problem is you made a fortune in America, you had a great idea, you got out there and worked for it, good for you, but you built that fortune in America, I guarantee you built it in part using workers all of us help pay to educate.
"My question is not why do Bernie and I support a wealth tax, it's why is it does everyone else on this stage think it is more important to protect billionaires than it is to invest in an entire generation of Americans," she said. "The value that someone feels in themselves and their own lives is not defined by the job that they have but is intrinsic to who we all are as Americans," she urged."Whatever we choose to do with our lives. We can't forget that."
In a staunch defense of the vice president, Sen. Cory Booker admonished the moderators for"literally using Donald Trump's lies." With automation threatening to wipe out the jobs of tens of millions of citizens, Sanders says he has a plan to ensure jobs are protected. California Sen. Kamala Harris called out the lack of questions on reproductive rights throughout the current debate, and the previous three.
"You are making Republican talking points right now in this room by coming out for a plan that's going to do that," she continued about building on Obamacare."I think there's a better way that is bold that will cover more people. It's the one we should get behind." "At the end of the day, the overwhelming majority of people will save money on their health care bills. I do think it is appropriate to acknowledge that taxes will go up. They will go up significantly for the wealthy and for virtually everybody, the tax increase will be substantially less," Sanders said.
Buttigieg rebutted,"I don't understand why you believe the only way to deliver affordable coverage is to obliterate private plans. We could achieve that same big, bold goal ... we're competing to be president for the day after Trump." Former Vice President Joe Biden, who has made clear that if elected president, his family would not be involved with foreign businesses, was questioned about why he allowed his son to serve on the board of a Ukraine natural gas company when he was vice president.
"If you do not hold him to account, if there is not justice, not only have we have failed this moment, our Constitution, and our country," O'Rourke said while saying why he believes impeachment is necessary."We have failed everyone who has sacrificed and laid their lives down on the line. And we cannot do that."
"I support impeachment, but we shouldn't have any illusions that impeaching Donald Trump will be one, be successful, or, two, erase the problems that got him elected in 2016," he said, before adding,"These are the problems that got Donald Trump elected. The fourth industrial revolution. And that is going to accelerate and grow more serious regardless of who is in the oval office. The fact is, Donald Trump when we are talking about him, we are losing.
"Well, it's a mistake on the part of Republicans who enable the president whose actions are as offensive to their own supposed values as they are to the values that we all share," Buttigieg said."Look, the president has left congress with no choice, and this is not just about holding the president accountable for not just things emerging in these investigations, but actions that he has confessed to on television.
President Trump has received backlash from both sides on the aisle for his recent decision to remove troops from Syria. Many critics, including Klobuchar, said that we have abandoned longtime U.S. allies. With many calling on the Democratic lawmakers to lay out a timetable for their impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Harris says that Trump is the"most corrupt and unpatriotic president we have ever had" and that the impeachment inquiry won't take long.
Biden continued his hammering of Trump, taking a swipe at the incumbent president, saying"I agree with Bernie, Sen. Sanders -- this is the most corrupt president in modern history and, I think, all of our history." "Impeachment is the way we establish this man will not be allowed to break the law over and over again," she said.Tonight is the largest presidential primary debate yet with 12 candidates on the stage. And this is actually billionaire Tom Steyer’s first debate of the primary. He’s also one of the eight who have already qualified for the November debate, so this won’t be the last you see of him — and it may not be the last you see of debates where more than 10 candidates qualify.
Today, one source told ABC News that the campaign understands one breakout moment, or one jab, is evidently not enough to move the polls for O'Rourke. Earlier on Tuesday, after going on a walk as part of her debate day routine, Warren met with the winner of a contest her campaign held for a supporter to fly out to the debate and attend as one of her guests.
While the same 10 candidates who participated in the third presidential debate a month ago in Houston, hosted by ABC News and Univision, will appear on stage, both Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who reclaimed a podium after missing the cut last month, and Tom Steyer, a billionaire activist who entered the race in July and will be a newcomer to the stage this time around, will join their Democratic rivals.
If something is going to shake up the race before the Iowa caucuses, it’s likely to be a debate. So ABC News partner FiveThirtyEight teamed up with Ipsos to once again track how Tuesday’s debate, hosted by CNN and The New York Times, affected likely primary voters’ feelings about the candidates. The FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll, conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel, will interview the same group of voters twice, on either side of the debate, to capture both the “before” and “after” picture.
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