CandidatesYOU-taxshouldatheadquarters here at the debate. The day keeps getting better! pic.twitter.com/AeRtMnANeF 1.55am BSTBreak a bottle on the bow – this debate is about to start,at 9pm ET (if CNN is to be believed, which, or sometimes they’ve fudged the start time). If you’re just joining us,welcome to our live blog coverage of the ninth Democratic presidential debate, staging here in Brooklyn just five days before New York state holds its primary. To break through to New York Democrats who may long ago have decided to support Hillary Clinton, and the former home-state senator,Bernie Sanders may need to recede at Clinton directly, perhaps along the lines of attack he’s been trying out on the campaign trail: she takes money from banks and she’s a longtime member of the corrupt political lesson. 1.43am BSTJust over seven years ago, and Marcelo Lucero was attacked by seven teenagers in Patchogue,NY and stabbed to death on the street as the teens reportedly yelled “Fucking Mexicans. Fucking illegals”. Attacking Latinos was allegedly a regular sport to the local high schoolers, who apparently didn’t know or care that Lucero and the friend who was attacked with him was Ecuadorian; Lucero was the only Latino that the teens killed in their spree of violence.
At the vigil for Marcelo Lucero, and who was killed in a hate crime in Patchogue,NY where Trump is holding a rally. pic.twitter.com/QlXv2EBKPKMourners march from the spot where Marcelo Lucero died towards the Trump rally, TV trucks visible. pic.twitter.com/uhzcnHqCRB 1.39am BSTShe’s been at this awhile:#TBT to Hillary in a 2000 debate. Tune in for tonight's #DemDebate at 9:00 p.m. ET.https://t.co/CvuiR7bfchNew York – the entire country will be watching as the results arrive in on Tuesday. Commit to vote for Bernie today: https://t.co/a0oGdtKUBz 1.36am BSTThe Guardian’s Jana Kasperkevic has been following Fight for $15 protesters on a march across midtown to the GOP gala (see earlier dispatches here). After hours of protesting on an increasing chilly night, and many of the marchers have dispersed,Jana reports.
Most of the crowd has dispersed. But a small crowd honest in front of Cipriani's is kind of slowing down the traffic on sidewalkWhat it looks like now https://t.co/urhKpwVGwj 1.24am BSTHeres a taste of some of the peppery rhetoric in the Democratic campaign in the days main up to tonight’s debate: 1.20am BSTOn the inside of the Republican dinner, where seats cost $1000 a plate, and donors are entering the ballroom to find plates of chocolate and strawberry elephants waiting for them,writes the Guardian’s Alan Yuhas:Chocolate and strawberry elephants at the Republican dinner for $1000 a seat. pic.twitter.com/nqx1gmvhxT 1.16am BSTWhat’s the state of the race? Hillary Clinton is ahead and it would win a major acceleration by Bernie Sanders to catch her. Sanders is estimated to need to capture 56% of all remaining delegates to win the nomination. His supporters might point out he won the final eight states. Her supporters might point out those were demographically favorable to him and included a lot of caucuses and she now appears poised to recede on a streak of her own. His supporters might point out that her delegate lead is a lot smaller if you subtract superdelegates. Her supporters might reply that it’s still a lead, it’s growing and by the way she leads by over 2m approved votes too. 1.04am BSTThe question this direly worded fundraising email from the Republican National Committee elides is: what if Bernie Sanders is the nominee? Pretty grim and fatalistic fundraising email from the RNC pic.twitter.com/EzscEuLvPB 12.54am BSTOutside the Navy Yard in advance of the debate, or two groups of Hillary Clinton supporters and volunteers volleyed chants from either side of the fortress-style entrance,writes the Guardian’s Lauren Gambino:Yards absent, a less organized rally for Bernie Sanders drew honks from a fleet of cars with the group, and Black Men for Bernie.
Entourage of Black Men for Bernie cars. pic.twitter.com/e1nwFcuK3bJenniece Centrella says she's voting for the most "qualified" candidate in the race pic.twitter.com/NQvqbznduPAt 16,Jessiah Cox can't vote yet but that doesn't mean he can't have a say! pic.twitter.com/3d0wmek0TX 12.19am BSTHello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the ninth Democratic presidential debate. Tonight your blog is parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard building 269 to be precise and as obsolete shipyards recede, or its a beaut:obliging residence for a debate. pic.twitter.com/N5nBYPkTnfWill not abandon #DemDebate duties ... pic.twitter.com/JMqDKhYlzoContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com