POL 2/25: Another Dem Debate Night (SC)

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9:43 PM: Warren says we should let the parties determine where the embassy is. She says dignity and self-determination for Palestinians but it is “not on us” to determine the terms. She says Trump “puts a thumb on the scale” for one side and that just pushes both sides further apart.

9:42 PM: Bloomberg says we can’t move the embassy back and Trump should have gotten something back. He says the only answer is a two-state solution.

9:41 PM: Sanders says he would consider moving the embassy back to Tel Aviv. Sanders says he is proud of being Jewish and even lived in Israel. He says Netanyahu is a “reactionary” and a “racist” who is running the country. Sanders wants a foreign policy that defends Israel but also acknowledge the Palestinians.
 

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9:46 PM: Democrats get opportunities to trash Trump on North Korea, and Biden says he would be in Beijing speaking with Xi to reassign the relationship between Japan and South Korea. He just randomly stop after talking about preventing North Korea from getting nuclear weapons and wonders why he is stopping when nobody else is and cites his Catholic School training.
 

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9:47 PM: Buttigieg asked about Syria (Idlib). He says we don’t have to be invading countries to bring about peace. He wants to answer Sanders’ question about whether health care for all is a radical idea. Buttigieg says what is radical is abolishing private insurance. He says even Denmark has not abolished health insurance. He wonders how that will fly in Denmark, South Carolina.

Warren says this is not a moment for military intervention. She says this is not a military problem that can solved military and we can’t send the military in without a plan to get them out.
 

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9:52 PM: Debate still in commercial after awkwardly cutting away as Gayle King was in the middle of asking a question,

[Just a terrible debate in which the questions are being directed at the wrong candidates. Moderators not even listening to the answers and not even asking sharp follow-ups because they are so intent on moving on to their next question… directed at the wrong candidate.]
 
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