1st DEM Debate Thread: June 26 & 27, Miami, MSNBC & NBC & Telemundo (9-11pm)

[Mr. Smith]

Why is Kamala Harris telling a story? What does it add to the debate?

That's what debates often do. Someone does that for a pathic argument.

[lfromnj]

I thought the point of DACA was to prevent punishing children who moved as a child for their parents crimes?

And now Harris wants to protect the parents?

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Last night was way more substantive. Everyone’s just trying too hard to pull a Castro/de Blasio tonight.

[SN2903]

So far:

Biden - A
Bernie - A
Buttigieg - A-
Yang - B-
Williamson - C
Gillibrand - C-
Harris - D-
Swallwell - F
Bennett - F
Hicklenlooper - F

[John Dule]

Is Harris seriously talking about undocumented veterans? How is that even possible? Don't you need an SSN to sign up for the armed forces?

[YE]

Harris really rubs me the wrong way with the way she frames and emphasizes issues. Too much of the cultural antithesis of Trump, with flowery rhetoric, and not enough on the fundamental issues.

[Buzz]

What the hell is Harris talking about undocumented veterans??  She has been so scripted tonight, phony lol.

[Reluctant Republican]

Biden seems like he's just kind of there. Though his current answer is good for what it is.

[Hindsight was 2020]

I love when Pete rips on the hypocrisy of the religious right

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Harris, Gillibrand, Pete, and (surprisingly) Williamson are doing well. Sanders is characteristically awful. Lol@Yang.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

LOL. the anti-Kamala tears are delicious.

[NOVA Green]

Surprised nobody mentioned the Biden meltdown before the commercial break....   doing good recovery now.

[Green Line]

Lol now everyone supports decriminalizing illegal immigration?  At this point the moderators could say, "Do you support abolishing the border and giving all central Americans US Citizenship?" and almost everyone would jump up and down.

[Buzz]

Williamson has been entertaining as hell tonight lol

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I thought the point of DACA was to prevent punishing children who moved as a child for their parents crimes?

And now Harris wants to protect the parents?

Moreover, the courts already ruled against doing that when Obama proposed doing it. (Granted, it didn't reach SCOTUS before Trump became president, so there's no final ruling.)

[libertpaulian]

The way they're ignoring Yang is disgusting.

[Gass3268]

Harris and Buttigieg are doing amazing

[Green Line]

Like, I don't support going after non-violent illegal immigrants, but how can you flat out say, "if you illegally immigrate here you should never be deported".  You might as well scrap all of our immigration laws.

[The Free North]

"Laugh their asses off" from Yang


Also lol @ giving Yang a question about China.

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

Lol now everyone supports decriminalizing illegal immigration?  At this point the moderators could say, "Do you support abolishing the border and giving all central Americans US Citizenship?" and almost everyone would jump up and down.

Liberals won't rest until the nation turns into a colder Nicaragua.

[SN2903]

 Harris is a phony.

[Xing]

Lol now everyone supports decriminalizing illegal immigration?  At this point the moderators could say, "Do you support abolishing the border and giving all central Americans US Citizenship?" and almost everyone would jump up and down.

Several candidates literally mentioned improving the situation in Central America so that fewer people would leave for the sake of their safety.

[libertpaulian]

WHOOO MAYOR PETE delivering the point that tariffs are taxes!  Bringing the RECEIPTS!

[John Dule]

Bennet had cancer and his mom was in the holocaust??

[Bidenworth2020]

biden doing what he needs to do, for now at least