"Did you watch last night’s Republican presidential debate? If you are one of the wealthiest people in this country, then you had ten candidates talking about your needs for two hours.
"But in the entire time I watched, I saw very little discussion about the issues important to most American families. There was no talk about climate change and clean energy, raising wages and providing healthcare for all Americans, criminal justice reform and the undermining of the Voting Rights Act, and nothing at all about the crushing burden of student debt. . . .
"We need to be discussing issues facing working families at a debate hosted by trade unions. We need to be discussing climate change and environmental issues at a forum hosted by the environmental community. We need to be discussing civil rights issues and racial injustice at a forum sponsored by civil rights groups. We need to be discussing gay rights at a forum hosted by the LGBT community. In other words, more discussion, more debate is good for the Democratic Party and good for the American people. . . ."
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I agree with Sen. Sanders. The first Democratic debate is not until October. That's way too much time to let the Republicans dominate the stage and capitalize on the 24,000,000 viewers of their debate.
Ralph
Ralph
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