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4 takeaways from the 2020 Democratic town halls in New Hampshire - The Boston Globe

posted onApril 26, 2019
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Article snippet: Bernie Sanders said anyone in prison should have the right to vote, including a Boston Marathon bomber. Pete Buttigieg disagreed. Elizabeth Warren said she wouldn’t be “Hillaried” because she defeated Scott Brown after a fellow Democratic woman lost to him in the previous election. Amy Klobuchar argued her Minnesota roots mean she can best win over swing Midwestern states — even if she had to ask for applause after making her point. Kamala Harris said as president she would give Congress 100 days to do something to address gun violence and if they fail to act she would use executive orders to institute sweeping gun control changes. All five Democratic presidential candidates participated Monday in five hours of back-to-back town hall meetings at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., co-sponsored by Harvard’s Institute of Politics and aired on CNN. Only college and graduate students were invited to attend and ask questions, many of which were related to younger voters. Throughout the five hours of television there was a little news, in the form of Sanders’ stated belief that even “terrible people” should retain the right to vote, he said, “because the right to vote is inherent to our democracy.” But there were four larger takeaways from the evening that might be more incisive to just how the budding Democratic presidential campaign will play out over the next year. 1. Cable news channels directly competing with the early presidential primary states for clout ... Link to the full article to read more

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