• USA 2020: one year from the vote, a four-way race for the Dems
  • USA 2020, all against Elisabeth Warren in the fourth TV debate among Democratic candidates
  • Third US 2020 debate: all against Trump. Biden attacked, but resisted

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November 21, 2019 United about the impeachment of President Donald Trump, divided between liberals and moderates on other priorities, from taxes on the rich to universal health coverage. The fifth debate among the Democratic candidates competing for the nomination of the party for the White House race was consummated without particular twists. The evening, in Atlanta, Georgia, opened with a question about impeachment, on the day of the explosive testimony of Gordon Sondland, the American ambassador to the European Union who confirmed Trump's pressure on Kiev, also using the blocking of military aid to open an investigation into the democratic challenger for the White House Joe Biden. "Donald Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee," Barack Obama's former number two said, bringing his impeachment as proof that he was the most qualified candidate to beat the tycoon. Biden turned 77 on the day of the fifth dem confrontation but avoided touching on the subject as his age is being criticized.


"We must establish the principle that no one is above the law" thundered liberal Elizabeth Warren, always commenting on the possible indictment of the White House tenant. Trump "is probably the most corrupt president in modern American history" but "we cannot simply be consumed by Donald Trump because if we do we will lose the elections", was the warning of the 'socialist' Bernie Sanders. "The constitutional procedure of impeachment must go beyond politics and is not part of the campaign but the behavior of the president is," Pete Buttigieg noted. And if for Kamala Harris "there is a criminal in the White House", Biden urged to let Justice decide Trump's guilt or not. The former vice president has therefore challenged the proposals of the liberal Sanders and Warren to be guaranteed to all health coverage, suggesting instead to maintain the Obamacare but adding a public option for the less well off. Buttigieg, a rising candidate, moderated by Biden, urged the Democrats to "galvanize and not polarize" the majority of voters on issues like armed violence or immigration. Like Biden, he challenged universal health. Warren insisted on making America less of a billionaire. In all the major national polls, Biden leads, followed closely by Warren and Sanders.

The 37-year-old mayor Buttigieg, a war veteran and openly gay, progressively continues to gain ground, especially in states of early voting, such as Iowa, where he will go to the polls on February 3rd. For RealClearPolitics Buttigieg is fourth. "I run for the post-Trump era - he said - the era of inclusion". The fifth debate among the democratic candidates has entered history in its own way: for the first time, the number of women has exceeded that of men, but only if the four moderators are also considered. On the stage, in fact, six men have climbed (Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Yang, Tom Steyer) and 4 women (Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Tulsi Gabbard), to whom the four conductive.

At the parterre dem may soon join Michael Bloomberg who is a candidate for the party primaries in two states. His possible descent into the field was read as a lack of confidence in Biden's chances of beating Trump. The sixth dem debate is scheduled in Los Angeles on December 19th.