‘Get down to the real business’: Debates kick off clash of ideas

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The Democratic primary has been defined by top-tier contenders who broadly agree on most policy priorities — and by an electorate less interested in what those candidates believe than whether he or she can defeat Trump

at what he called the “corporate wing of the Democratic Party” was hardly a departure for the independent senator from Vermont, who spent the better part of the 2016 presidential primary feuding with establishment Democrats while popularizing Medicare for All.that centrist Democrats were becoming increasingly comfortable with Sen. Elizabeth Warren as a preferable nominee to Sanders.

poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201903/666/1155968404_6010911324001_6010907050001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"But aside from Sanders, many candidates supporting Medicare for All also support more moderate plans. Harris, for example, stirred controversy when she said at a CNN town hall that she would support eliminating the health insurance industry in order to achieve Medicare for All, while also supporting less far-reaching bills.

In addition, nearly all of the major Democratic presidential contenders have called for the United States to rejoin the Paris climate agreement and have voiced support for tenets of the Green New Deal. “I think part of the answer is that we are going to at least have the beginnings of policy discussions at the debates,” said RL Miller, founder of the super PAC Climate Hawks Vote. “I do think that the debates are going to be one of the first places where the policy differences begin to emerge, because everybody who gets up to that high level of presidential politics knows that it doesn’t work when you say, ‘Yes, I totally agree with my opponents.

Many candidates want to roll back Trump-era cuts to the corporate income tax, and at least half a dozen candidates have proposed increasing taxes on wealthy Americans.

 

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Yep...that is the main consideration.

True but I trust the Dems to deliver good stuff. At least better than DT has.

Yep open borders, higher taxes, and taking away your rights resonates with voters. Lucky the have Trump to fall back on.

They are all the same -- all follow the same social justice NPC doctrine

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