Is on, and 20 democrats have converged in the motor city to once again prove that they are the best candidate to challenge President Trump come 2020. In five hours, the first 10 democrats were selected at random, well take the stage at the beautiful and historic fox theater. On the heels of his new poll, the states could not be higher. Joe biden is holding on to his front runner status with a doubledigit lead. Senator Elizabeth Warren surging in this latest poll while support for Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders has slipped. Tonights lineup presents a whole new test for senators warren and sanders. Two icons of the progressive movement, have mainly avoided confrontations. Will that change this evening . Anna cabrera is live inside the fox theater. Where a number of these candidates have been arriving for their walkthroughs. Is anyone arriving now in. There sure is. John hickenlooper is taking his place behind the podium. Learning which camera he wants to look at if he wants to speak to
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Made contact with his wife. She says he called her and said hes a little sad but doing okay. Hes being held in a correctional facility. He also said he may appear before a judge on friday or saturday. The news continues. I want to turn things over to don lemon and cnn tonight. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. And weve got to talk about what we heard from the president of the United States today. Because lets be clear, this is not politics as usual. This is not normal. This is the president going off the rails during an official taxpayerfunded event. A speech supposed to be about energy policy. But quickly turned into a rambling campaign speech. Joking about calling off the 2020 election. Have they ever called off an election before . Just said look, lets go, four more years. Yeah. Then you want to really drive them crazy . Go to hashtag third term, hashtag fourth term. Youll drive them totally crazy. Joking doesnt make it okay for a president to say lets call off the election. Theres
President obama is after all, an expresident with 65 in independents. This is democrats and republicans giving democrats advice, echoing president obama, who warned about this before the Campaign Even got going at a town hall in berlin earlier this year. One of the things i do worry about sometimes among progressives in the united states, maybe its true here as well, is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, ah, im sorry, this is how its going to be. And then we start sometimes creating whats called a circular firing squad. Where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues. Well, that sentiment is being echoed now. Cnn political commentator paul begala earlier today. This is my problem with the debate. I believe many of these candidates seeking to win the nomination are setting themselves up to lose the presidency to donald trump. Hes arguing in the effort to win the primaries, Democratic Candidates are moving so far left they wont be a
Thats just here in el paso. You are right to say we must come together. You and our leaders in Congress Must start. Take us to a better place. Pass the laws to protect us from the White Nationalists. Do what the people call for. Make us safer from guns in the wrong hands. Come back, do your job. Keep our hearts from breaking. Please. Thank you for watching our coverage. It continues now with don lemon and cnn tonight. Good message. Very heart felt message and right on the mark. I have to say it is incumbent upon lawmakers. You always tell lawmakers calling them out and saying to do their damn job. Those are your words. Youre exactly right. We have called on this president to say the words that he finally said today. But they ring hollow when he coddles White Supremacists or domestic terrorism or those who perform the acts. I hope this makes a difference, how many times have we have been sitting here on tv saying i hope this one changes things. And nothing happens. I hear you. I have ho