Senior Kamala Harris fired back at Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday night after the Hawaii congresswoman tore apart her record as an attorney general during an intense exchange at CNN’s presidential debate. In a post debate interview with Anderson Cooper, Harris was asked about Gabbard’s searing criticisms of her resume as California’s attorney general. After watching the playback, Harris reacted by referring to herself...

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Fox News reporter Peter Doocy pulled his away mic away from Julian Castro on Wednesday night as the former HUD secretary took shots at President Donald Trump after the CNN Democratic 2020 primary debate. Doocy was in the spin room after CNN’s debate when he spotted Castro and tried to move through fellow reporters to get up closer. Doocy wasn’t able to get...

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Former Vice President Joe Biden had arguably a much stronger showing at CNN’s debate than he did in the first bout last month. But he ended on a bizarre note by telling people to visit an apparently nonexistent campaign site. From what we can tell, Biden sought to tell people to text “JOE” to 30330, which signs users up for text updates from...

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Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang broke the fourth wall on Wednesday night when he used his closing statement at the CNN debate to decry the reality-show pageantry of American politics. As he delivered his final statement for the night, Yang began by lamenting how pundits at the last Democratic debate focused more on his lack of a tie than on his poll...

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Fox News personality Tomi Lahren faced heavy criticism for a tweet baselessly accusing Sen. Kamala Harris of sleeping her “way to the top” — even getting hit by a fellow Fox News host. Lahren, furiously live-tweeting the Democratic primary debate, wrote in one missive: “Kamala did you fight for ideals or did you sleep your way to the top.” Kamala did you fight...

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For two and a half hours on Wednesday, the second half of the two night CNN Democratic debate took place in Detroit, and it was a banger. On the garish stage, to much pageantry, the second set of Democrats sparred heavily, scrapping, jabbing, and trying to wrestle for the top spot. Some succeeded, some failed, and it wasn’t always according to expectations. Here...

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Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard drew the crowd’s attention on Wednesday when she brutally attacked Senator Kamala Harris’ criminal justice record at the CNN Democratic 2020 primary debate in Detroit. As Harris spoke about her time as former Attorney General of California, Gabbard tied Harris’ record to the “broken criminal justice system that is disproportionately, negatively impacting black and brown people all around the...

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In a stunning multi-part exchange, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) absolutely torched former Vice President Joe Biden on several different topics – including, notably, criminal justice. In a tense skirmish early which took place over two segments in Wednesday night’s presidential debate, the New Jersey senator called out Biden for being involved with a great deal of criminal justice legislation for the past four...

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Washington Governor Jay Inslee drew applause on Wednesday night when he pronounced President Donald Trump a “white nationalist” at CNN’s 2020 Democratic primary debate. As the candidates debated their respective approaches to illegal immigration and the border crisis, Inslee got in and said “we’re missing two central statements we should make.” “We can no longer allow a white nationalist to be in the...

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Sen. Cory Booker apparently had no problem with anti-Bill de Blasio protestors interrupting his opening statement during the CNN debates. “To the folks who were standing up to Mayor de Blasio a few minutes ago—good for you,” Booker, or his campaign, tweeted from the senator’s account. To the folks who were standing up to Mayor de Blasio a few minutes ago—good for you. That’s...

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The two frontrunners at the second Democratic debate sparred early over their respective healthcare plans, with Vice President Joe Biden directly calling out Sen. Kamala Harris’ conflicting positions in the short time she’s been a presidential candidate. “You can’t beat President Trump with double talk,” he said. Harris just released a healthcare plan that would phase in Medicare to the whole population over...

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Opening statements during the CNN Democratic debates on Wednesday ground to a halt after protesters heckled New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. Booker’s opening statement was momentarily stopped due to the protestors drowning out his statement. According to reports, the protestors were chanting “Fire Pantaleo” in reference to NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who put Eric Garner...

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Former vice president Joe Biden and California Senator Kamala Harris shook hands with each other at the top of their rematch at the CNN Democratic 2020 primary debate in Detroit, Michigan. There’s been a great deal of anticipation for the reunion of the two candidates: it’s their first encounter since their head-to-head at last month’s debate. Harris had a breakout moment when she...

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There is nothing like primary debate night for weird statements, gaffes, and drama. That is, if you’re the kind of person who follows politics. And if you are, then you probably think it goes without saying that none of the Democrats vying for the 2020 nomination are a Barack Obama-level candidate. Or rather, it usually goes without saying. Out loud. But not if...

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During MSNBC’s post-debate coverage, which heavily focused on emphasizing the views of moderate Democratic candidates, host Brian Williams mocked the ambitious plans of progressive Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders as “offering free salad bar and breadsticks, everything right up to that.” Williams’ comments came nearly an hour after the end of the first night of the second round of 2020 Democratic debates. He...

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Fox News’ Howard Kurtz spoke with Shannon Bream tonight to assess how the CNN moderators did at tonight’s debate. And he had praise for two of the three of them. He said the debate was substantive and the moderators did a decent job enforcing time limits before criticizing Don Lemon, saying, “The liberal opinion host on the panel asked questions that were blatantly...

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CNN’s Van Jones said that Sen. Bernie Sanders was the “comeback kid,” adding that he is trying to lead a revolution while Sen. Elizabeth Warren is trying to be president. “Bernie is the comeback kid a little bit tonight. The last time he was weaker, he seemed like he was fading. He was strong tonight. He reminded you why you like Bernie and...

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While 2020 presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson was widely considered a non-serious candidate going into the DNC’s second round of debates on Tuesday, the self-help author quickly set herself apart from the rest of the Democrats on stage and received huge applause lines for her commentary on issues ranging from “dark psychic forces,” to slavery reparations. Williamson’s two biggest applause lines came during her commentary...

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CNN’s first Democratic debate went down in Detroit on Tuesday night, to much fanfare. The network wheeled out all the stops to make the event a showstopper from the moment it kicked off at 8 p.m.: a sleek stage in an ornate theater, a minutes-long opening sequence mimicking an early-2000s action movie, an absolutely electric rendition of the national anthem, and then a...

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg addressed Republican members of Congress calling them to consider what they would want to be remembered for. “If you are watching at home and you are a Republican member of Congress, consider the fact that when the sun sets on your career, and they are writing your story, of all the good and bad things you did in your life,”...

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Marianne Williamson got rapturous applause from the crowd when she brought up race issues numerous times during the Democratic debate. Discussions on racial environmental injustice and reparations proved to be her time to shine. When asked her response on the Flint water crisis, Williamson said Flint was “just the tip of the iceberg.” “I assure you I lived in Gross Point [mostly white...

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At the second Democratic Debate, Senator Elizabeth Warren fired off the zinger of the night during a back-and-forth with Rep. John Delaney, who continually attacked her and Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All plans as too ambitious and too generous, and Twitter instantly lit up at her rhetorical direct hit. Elizabeth’s moment pic.twitter.com/Wkj63iaOAB — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 31, 2019 Crowd erupts for...

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Massachusetts Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren got off a hell of a zinger when former Rep. John Delaney attacked her plans as unrealistic, shooting back “I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for.” At Tuesday night’s CNN Democratic...

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Anything’s possible when there are no lines between politics and entertainment, and Tuesday night Marianne Williamson, presidential candidate, substituted a casual interjection to stand for what Americans believe. In the 2020 Democratic Debate Tuesday she tried to make her case against corporate money in politics by saying, “I don’t think the Democratic Party should be surprised that so many Americans believe yada, yada,...

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren firmly cut off laughter from the Democratic debate audience when she returned to finish an anecdote about Ady Barkan, an ALS patient who has to beg his insurance company and others to pay the staggering healthcare costs he faces every month to keep himself alive: “This isn’t funny.” “So giant corporations and billionaires are going to pay more. Middle-class families are...

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Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders went after CNN anchor Jake Tapper over his line of questioning on health care, shouting “Your question IS a Republican talking point!” During Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, Tapper asked each of the candidates if they would support raising taxes on the middle class in order to pay for universal coverage, with varying results....

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CNN is hosting tonight’s and tomorrow night’s debates, and as the first round kicked off, viewers were greeted with a dramatic movie-trailer-style CNN intro. And it didn’t take long for people to start mocking CNN over the pageantry: Why is this cnn debate intro like the opening to Monday night football? — Ryan Lawler (@ryanlawler) July 31, 2019 Did cnn hire the producers...

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