these are the numbers that define race in our country. yang pivoted to the main focus of his platform, the universal basic income. he wants to give each american 18 and old, a freedom dividend of $1,000 a month. he says he guarantees that if it existed, he would not have been the only candidate of color on the stage. elizabeth warren drew wild applause when she fired back about a question about her age, when she would be the oldest president ever inaugurated if she wins in 2020. she didn t miss a beat. you would be the oldest president ever inaugurated. i would also be the youngest woman ever inaugurated. boom. warren would be 71 at the time of her inauguration if elected. tallying up who had the most speaking time, bernie sanders led the pack at 20 minutes. klobuchar, warren and buttigieg with 19 minutes of air time.
debate. what was that all about? pete buttigieg held a fund-raiser at a california winery, in its so-called wine cave, under a crystal chandelier. th in the debate, it stood in for wealthy donors that it can create. the mayor just recently had a fund-raiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals and served $900-a-bottle wine. i m literally the only person on this stage who is not a millionaire or a billionaire. i do not sell access to my time. i don t do call time with millionaires and billionaires. senator, your presidential campaign right now, as we speak, is funded in part, by money you transferred, having raised it at those exact same big-ticket
howard dean and dick gephardt. and they were going back and forth. that allowed john kerry and john edwards to slip through the middle. if you attack a candidate, there s no guarantee you re going to benefit. they have six, eight, ten other choices if they pull back from the original candidate. one point that mayor buttigieg made that is on the debate loop, he was talking about getting elected re-elected in mike pence s indiana. the mayor did not get elected in mike pence s indiana. he was elected in a democratic town in the state of indiana. he wasn t being up front with all of the details there. did well with republican voters there, nathan. he always did. and this guy was at 80%. so, i think his point is, that he resonated across the political spectrum. the dynamic right now looks like three or four winners in the first four states.
fund-raisers you now denounce. buttigieg said democrats are in the fight of their lives and shouldn t try to beat president trump with, quote, one hand tied behind our back. joining us from washington to talk about wine caves and wind caves, nathan gonzalez, he s a cnn political analyst. good morning there. did that moment break through, other than wine caves trending. did he handle that well? i think he did. it will be one of the hot topics throughout the day and into tomorrow, depending on other news. i thought the mayor s answer was pretty good. we ll see if voters in iowa and new hampshire feel the same way. i wondered, though, is it worth it. are the fund-raisers worth it for him? is he bringing in enough money from those to deal with the attacks that will keep coming if he keeps doing them? and i think one of the things that the mayor was alluding to,
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