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U.S. SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS

“Everybody up here by the way is united; no matter who wins this damn thing, we’re all going to stand together. I believe the way we beat Trump is by having the largest voter turnout in the history of his country.”

Sanders rejected criticism that his agenda is too radical to win the general election, saying he could bring people together by “presenting an agenda that works for the working people of this country, not the billionaire class.”

“The way you bring people together is by ending the international disgrace of this country being the only major nation on Earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right.”

FORMER SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG

Buttigieg defended Biden when a moderator asked if the Republican investigation into his son, Hunter Biden, would be a liability if he was a nominee. “We’ve got to draw a line. … To be the kind of human being who would seek to turn someone against his own son, who would seek to weaponize a son against his own father, is an unbelievably dishonorable thing. That is just one more example of why we as a party have to be completely united in doing whatever it takes, at the end of the day, to make sure that this president does not get a second term.”

But Buttigieg criticized Biden for voting for the Iraq war in 2002 as a senator. “I believe that I have the judgment to help us get through these situations where obviously the vice president made the wrong decision when it came to such an important moment in our foreign policy. And looking forward, we’ve got to recognize just how much is going to be on the plate of the next president that is different in kind from what we have faced before.”