Fight Night: The Dem Debate Put a Spotlight on Impeachment

Hunter DeRensis

Politics, Americas

Every Democrat candidate running for president has endorsed the impeachment of Donald Trump—but from a distance it appears as if Sen. Tulsi Gabbard might waiver on a final vote.

Last night was the sixth Democratic primary debate and the largest so far. Present were all ten candidates from the September debate, with the inclusion of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), returning after a hiatus, and billionaire hedge fund manager Tom Steyer, making his national debut.

The first debate since the initiation of the impeachment inquiry in the House, the first twenty minutes of the three-hour debate involved each candidate speaking on the topic. Every candidate on the stage has endorsed the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

“Sometimes there are issues that are bigger than politics, and I think that’s the case with this impeachment inquiry . . . impeachment is the way that we establish that this man [Trump] will not be permitted to break the law over and over without consequences,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who was one of the first candidates to endorse impeachment back in April after the release of the Mueller report.

“In my judge Trump is the most corrupt president in the history of this country,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), who listed abuses of the emolument’s clause along with the recent Ukraine controversy as reasons to impeach.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said that he agreed with Sanders that Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history and reiterated his belief in impeachment.

Saying that with this Ukraine business Trump has been “selling out our democracy,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) echoed her colleagues by calling Trump both the most corrupt and unpatriotic president in U.S. history, and said there is already enough public evidence to impeach.

The only candidate on stage to strike a different tone was Gabbard, who is the only person on stage with the ability to vote on impeachment. “Unfortunately, this [partisanship] is what we’ve already seen play out as calls for impeachment really began shortly after Trump won his election, and as unhappy as that may make us as Democrats, he won that election in 2016,” she said. Gabbard reiterated her support for the impeachment inquiry in a tone that suggested she wasn’t sold on the final impeachment vote.