James Hohmann

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Cory Booker to Joe Biden: “You’re dipping in the Kool Aid, and you don’t even know the flavor.” Booker is unplugged: He also used the word "shithole" earlier to criticize Trump for saying "shithole countries." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FrankLuntz: .@CoryBooker is a much more effective critic of Biden than @KamalaHarris is tonight. #DemDebate2 https://t.co/fA9WN95UR6 — PolitiTweet.org

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As the Democrats debate on CNN, Fox News tonight aired an interview with Marianne Williamson. Video: https://t.co/KnuvaTnbTv. — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden is less crisp and fluent on CJR than on HC. — PolitiTweet.org

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Is this debate audience really its target demo? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @markzbarabak: In exchange over immigration, when Biden declines to reveal his counsel to Obama re mass deportations---> https://t.co/uz… — PolitiTweet.org

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That movie about hunting human beings looks terrible. — PolitiTweet.org

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Cory Booker lands a punch on Biden: “You invoke Obama more than anyone in this campaign. You can’t do it when it’s convenient and then avoid it when it’s not.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@FHQ Good pull — PolitiTweet.org

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Bill de Blasio says of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living inside the United States: "Everyone in theory has broken the law." It's really not a "theory." — PolitiTweet.org

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Cory Booker is trying to do what Newt Gingrich did in the 2012 debates by using every question to attack moderators for asking legitimate questions about fundamental divides within the party. But the crowd loves it. Which is why they do it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dgordon52 Good point -- You're right that the stop deportation hecklers probably cared more about this grouping. — PolitiTweet.org

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Castro responds: “It looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn’t.” Biden parries: "I have guts enough to say his plan doesn't make sense." — PolitiTweet.org

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To show he's a fighter, Biden attacks Castro for not advocating to stop or discourage Obama from pursuing mass deportations when he was HUD secretary, and they were in Cabinet meetings: “I never heard him talk about any of this when he was secretary.” — PolitiTweet.org

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How did so many hecklers get in tonight and not last night? — PolitiTweet.org

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Good on CNN for devoting 23 minutes of the debate to health care. It's an important pocketbook issue that directly impacts Everyday Americans, regardless of what they think is the right approach. And that was as substantive a back-and-forth as you'll see in a format like this. — PolitiTweet.org

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Joe “That’s Malarkey” Biden is looking like a fighter right now, especially compared to Miami: “I don’t know what math you do in New York. I don’t know what math you do in California.” — PolitiTweet.org

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If "malarkey" was on your bingo card or part of your drinking game, check. — PolitiTweet.org

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Michael Bennet’s “I wrote the damn public option bill” line doesn’t have quite the same ring to it…. — PolitiTweet.org

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If Harris, Warren, Sanders or Gillibrand is the Democratic nominee, the Republican web videos next fall featuring these clips of Bennet, Biden, Delaney attacking Medicare-for-all will be *brutal*. — PolitiTweet.org

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The senators are slipping into senator talk! Harris: Bennet is my “friend.” Bennet: “Sen. Harris is my friend as well.” Then Bennet says: “We need to be honest about what’s in this plan.” Says it raises taxes on the middle class by $30 trillion. — PolitiTweet.org

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Michel Bennet on Obamacare: "I believe we should finish the job we started with the ACA with a public option." “It doesn’t make sense for us to take away insurance from half the people in the room and raise taxes on almost everyone in this room.” — PolitiTweet.org

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A minute after I tweeted that, Tulsi Gabbard attacks Sebelius....and Harris says Sebelius endorsed her plan but didn't write it. Then pivots to attack Biden for wanting to maintain Obamacare as the status quo with a public option. — PolitiTweet.org

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Steve Bullock cited Obama's DHS secretary last night. Kamala Harris says Obama HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius has endorsed her plan. Joe Biden noted that he was vice president under Obama. “Obamacare is working," he says. "Build on Obamacare." — PolitiTweet.org

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Dana Bash asks Kirsten Gillibrand if she’s upset Harris has backed away from full Medicare-for-all. Gillibrand doesn’t answer. “Let’s not lose the forest through the trees, and let’s not forget what the Republicans are doing,” she says. — PolitiTweet.org

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Joe Biden: “Obamacare is working. … Build on Obamacare. … Provide a public option. … It would ensure the vast, vast, vast majority of Americans are covered. My plan costs $750 billion, not $30 trillion.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden not making eye contact with Harris as she looks at him. — PolitiTweet.org

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Dana Bash opens the first question to Kamala Harris by citing criticism of her health care plan from Joe Biden: “They’re probably confused because they’ve not read it,” she replies. Biden smiles. — PolitiTweet.org

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If "fighter" was on your bingo card, you can check it off! “I come from fighters," Kamala Harris says in her open. — PolitiTweet.org

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Booker opens with Baltimore. Klobuchar was the only candidate on stage last night to mention Baltimore. But I think Booker just confused Charleston with Charlottesville in his opening statement. — PolitiTweet.org