The night after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump, Democratic presidential hopefuls previewed how they will handle his pending U.S. Senate trial — and offered rationales for why they’re the best candidates to beat him at the ballot box next fall.
Three of the seven candidates who took the stage for the sixth Democratic presidential primary debate in Los Angeles — U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar — will serve as jurors in Trump’s upcoming trial, which could take them off the campaign trail in the weeks leading up to February’s initial caucuses and primaries.
“What’s clearly on the stage, in 2020, is how we are going to run against the most corrupt president in living history,” Warren said.
Drawing a line from former Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, Warren continued, “We have to prosecute the case against him, and that means we need a candidate for president who can draw the sharpest distinction between the corruption of the Trump Administration and a Democrat who is willing to get out and fight not for the wealthy and well-connected, but to fight for everyone else.”
Sanders said he would make “the case that we have a president who has sold out the working families of this country.” Even conservatives understand “we cannot have a president with that temperament,” he said.
But entrepreneur Andrew Yang echoed a key concern among some Democratic and independent voters hoping to reclaim the White House when he said, “We have to stop being obsessed over impeachment.”
As Democrats look to shift the spotlight off impeachment and back onto pocketbook issues, so too did Thursday’s debate, which moved briefly to the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement approved that day by the House and then onto foreign policy.
Sparks flew in one of the final debates before the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses, as the Democratic field remains unsettled.
Warren, seeking to rejuvenate her campaign amid falling poll numbers, continued her campaign-trail feud with South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the current front-runner in Iowa and New Hampshire, over his courting of high-dollar donors.
Warren slammed Buttigieg over a recent fundraiser at a California winery, saying, “billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the United States.”
Buttigieg hit back, claiming he was the only candidate on stage who is not at least a millionaire.
“This is the problem with issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass,” he said.
It was Klobuchar who broke up that fight, and who interceded in a later spat between Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden over health care, pushing her brand of moderate pragmatism as the salve to unite a divided nation.
“I just don’t think anyone has a monopoly on bold ideas,” she said. “I think you can be progressive and practical at the same time.”
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