holt:  thank you, governor.  (applause)  guthrie:  senator gillibrand, you have the floor for 45 seconds.  gillibrand:  women in america—women in america are on fire. we’ve marched, we’ve organized, we’ve run for office and we’ve won. but, our rights are under attack like never before by president trump and the republicans who want to repeal roe v. wade, which is why i went to the front lines in georgia to fight for them. as president, i will take on the fights that no one else will. i stood up to the pentagon and repealed don’t ask don’t tell. i’ve stood up to the banks and voted against the bail out twice. i’ve stood up to trump more than any other senator in the u.s. senate. and i have the most comprehensive approach for getting money out of politics with publicly funded elections to deal with political corruption.  now is not the time to play it safe. now is not the time to be afraid of first. we need a president who will take on the big challenges even if she stands alone. join me in fighting for this.  guthrie:  senator gillibrand, thank you.  holt:  mr. yang, you have 45 seconds—  (applause)  —for your closing.  yang:  first, i want to thank everyone who put me on this stage tonight. i am proof that our democracy still works. democrats and americans around the country have one question for their nominee and that is who can beat donald trump in 2020. that is the right question. and the right candidate to beat donald trump will be solving the problems that got donald trump elected and will have a vision of a trickle up economy that is already drawing thousands of disaffected trump voters, conservatives, independents, and libertarians, as well as democrats and progressives. i am that candidate. i can build a much broader coalition to beat donald trump. it is not left. it is not right. it is forward and that is where i’ll take the country in 2020.  holt:  mr. yang, thank you.  (applause)  guthrie:  senator harris. senator harris, the floor is yours.  harris:  thank you. well, i—i just want to leave you with a couple of things. one, we need a nominee who has the ability to prosecute the case against four more years of donald trump and i will do that. second, this election is about you. this is about your hopes and your dreams and your fears and what wakes you up at 3:00 in the morning. and that’s why i have what i call a 3:00 a.m. agenda that is about everything from what we need to do to deliver healthcare to how you will be able to pay the bills by the end of the month.  and when i think about what our country needs, i promise you i will be a president who leads with a sense of dignity, with honest, speaking the truth, and giving the american family all that they need to get through the end of the month in a way that allows them to prosper. so, i hope to own—earn your support. please join us at kamalaharris.org.  guthrie:  senator, thank you.  (applause)  holt:  mayor buttigieg—  (applause)  —45 seconds.  (applause)  buttigieg:  nothing about politics is theoretical for me. i’ve had the experience of writing a letter to my family, putting it in an envelope marked just in case and leaving it where they would know where to find it in case i didn’t come back from afghanistan.  buttigieg:  i have the experience of being in a marriage that exists by the grace of a single vote on the u.s. supreme court and i have the experience of guiding a community where the per capita income was below $20,000 when i took office into a brighter future. i am running because the decisions we make in the next three or four years are going to decide how the next 30 or 40 go and when i get to the current age of the current president in the year 2055 i want to be able to look back on these years and save my generation delivered climate solutions, racial equality and an end to endless war. help me deliver that new generation to washington before it’s too late.
2019 democratic debates, night 2: full transcript