Name: Mehdi Hasan - Assessing the Last Democratic Presidential Debate of 2019 | The Daily Show
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Uh, what did you make of it, as someone who's just watching it

apart from, like, us who was watching it?

I think we learned two things from this debate. Number one--

Amy Klobuchar really, really loathes Pete Buttigieg.

-That came out very clearly, I think. -Right.

She came prepped, uh, with her... you know, her stats.

-She's like, "You lost by 20 points." -Right, right, right.

She came prepared. Certainly unfair to Pete Buttigieg.

-when he ran for statewide office. -Oh, wow. So, she...

-Right. -Um, and the second thing, I think, we learned is

that the Democrats need to run a Muslim for president,

You won't find me anywhere near a wine cave.

-I don't even know what a wine cave is. -(laughter)

-to the wine cave issue. -But this was a...

that people were, like, arguing about now.

It was like, "Do you take money from-from rich people?"

-"Do you take money from big corporations?" -Yeah.

"Do you take money from wealthy donors and that class?"

With Buttigieg saying, "We need everything we can

He's raised a lot of money from big donors-- we've seen this."

-Yeah. -"And, so, if you don't have enough money,

you can't compete." Elizabeth Warren going, "No.

-That money becomes part of the problem." -Yes.

So where do you think that argument ended on the night?

I'm very much Team Warren, Sanders on this.

It's very clear that if you take money from lots of rich people,

they expect stuff in return. That is the history of politics.

History of American politics in particular.

He had that great comeback to Elizabeth Warren, you know.

"I couldn't be on stage with you. You're all richer than me."

Um, I think the problem is with that argument is,

he won't say what Warren says and Sanders says, which is,

"You can give us as much money as you want.

-We're not gonna give you a job." He won't do that. -Right.

He hasn't ruled out appointing, you know, his rich donors

-to ambassadorships. -Right, right, right.

And we've seen that now. Look at this guy Gordon Sondland

who testified in the impeachment hearing-- ambassador to the EU.

-to Donald Trump's inauguration committee. -Right.

That is not how you should get jobs in government.

I think that's a problem for the Democratic Party

-and for Pete Buttigieg. -It was an interesting...

we actually heard what people had to say.

-You only had seven people up on stage... -Yes...

And so, you heard from all the people who were up there.

What was interesting is, somebody like Andrew Yang,

who barely gets time to speak normally, came out today.

-that people hadn't brought up before. -Yeah.

But it still feels like he's an outlier in the race,

as how far is the campaign gonna go in terms of kind of,

-as you say, attention, speaking. -Right.

Uh, he still has his, you know... What was it

"His entire vocabulary is a noun, a verb and 9/11."

-and "I'll give you $1,000 a month." -Right.

even the race conversation, which is fine as far as it goes.

I don't think she's gonna be the candidate,

She was strong, she was prepared. She went after...

She... I think tonight we saw, uh, the first crack

in the Pete Buttigieg electability argument.

Till now, we're like, "This is the guy! He's electable!"

And she pointed out, you know, the emperor has no clothes.

-This guy is a mayor from South Bend, Indiana. -Mm-hmm.

Do you know how many votes he won in 2015 to be reelected

-as mayor of...? -What is it? Like, 8,000?

There's more people than that at an Asian wedding, right?

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